Wilson A. Smith

15.7k citations

148 papers · 12.9k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.05%
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Catalysis top 0.1%
- Ionic liquids properties and applications

Papers in

Catalysis 48
- Ionic liquids properties and applications 39
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 109
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 65
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 40
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 31

Co-authors: Thomas Burdyny Ming Ma Bartek J. Trześniewski David A. Vermaas Recep Kaş Yiping Zhao Kristina Djanashvili Nienke J. Firet
Journals: ACS Energy Letters (13 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (9 papers)ACS Catalysis (8 papers)Journal of Materials Chemistry A (8 papers)Energy & Environmental Science (7 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States France

In The Last Decade

Wilson A. Smith

145 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Decarbonization of the chemical industry through electrification: Barriers and opportunities 2023 · 190 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Joule
2020 ACS Catalysis
2020 ACS Energy Letters
2019 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2015 Journal of the American Chemical Society

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1	Insights into Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Metallic and Oxidized Tin Using Grand-Canonical DFT and In Situ ATR-SEIRA Spectroscopy ACS Catalysis ·Todd N. Whittaker, Елена Анатольевна Потапова, Jacob M. Clary, Ping Wan, Adam Holewinski, Charles B. Musgrave, Carrie A. Farberow, Wilson A. Smith, Derek Vigil‐Fowler	2024	14
2	Closing the Loop: Unexamined Performance Trade-Offs of Integrating Direct Air Capture with (Bi)carbonate Electrolysis ACS Energy Letters ·Florence Samkange-Zeeb, Recep Kaş, Ping Wan, Allison M. Crow, Ana Somoza-Tornos, Bri‐Mathias Hodge, Thomas Burdyny, Wilson A. Smith	2024	17
3	Bulk Layering Effects of Ag and Cu for Tandem CO₂ Electrolysis ChemSusChem ·Mark Sassenburg, Hugo‐Pieter Iglesias van Montfort, Nikita Kolobov, Wilson A. Smith, Thomas Burdyny	2024	4
4	Mass Transport Modifies the Interfacial Electrolyte to Influence Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Jinyu Guo, Ping Wan, Matthew J. Liu, Elizabeth R. Corson, 俊郎柴田, Wilson A. Smith, William A. Tarpeh	2023	41
5	Direct Measurement of Electrochemical Selectivity Gradients over a 25 cm² Copper Gas Diffusion Electrode ACS Energy Letters ·Suzana Dedijer Dujović, Walter Klein, Danielle A. Henckel, Sumit Verma, K.C. Neyerlin, Wilson A. Smith	2023	13
6	Evaluating the techno-economic potential of defossilized air-to-syngas pathways Energy & Environmental Science ·Florence Samkange-Zeeb, Omar José Guerra Fernandez, Wilson A. Smith, Bri‐Mathias Hodge, Ana Somoza-Tornos	2023	12
7	Decarbonization of the chemical industry through electrification: Barriers and opportunities Joule ·Dharik S. Mallapragada, Yury Dvorkin, Miguel A. Modestino, Daniel V. Esposito, Wilson A. Smith, Bri‐Mathias Hodge, Michael P. Harold, Vincent M. Donnelly, Beatriz Silvana da Silveira Porto, Casey Bloomquist, Kyri Baker, Lars C. Grabow, Yushan Yan, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Ryan L. Hartman, Elizabeth J. Biddinger, Eray S. Aydil, André D. Taylor Hit paper breakdown →	2023	190
8	Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction over Metal-/Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Single-Atom Catalysts Modeled Using the Grand-Canonical Density Functional Theory ACS Catalysis ·Ping Wan, Florence Samkange-Zeeb, 夏雨, Abdulaziz Alherz, Wen Dávila, Wilson A. Smith, Charles B. Musgrave	2022	50
9	An economic analysis of the role of materials, system engineering, and performance in electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion to formate Journal of Cleaner Production ·Alex Badgett, Mark Ruth, Allison M. Crow, R. Gary Grim, Yingying Chen, Leiming Hu, Ling Tao, Wilson A. Smith, K.C. Neyerlin, Randy D. Cortright	2022	18
10	Operando Topography and Mechanical Property Mapping of CO ₂ Reduction Gas-Diffusion Electrodes Operating at High Current Densities Journal of The Electrochemical Society ·Nathan T. Nesbitt, Wilson A. Smith	2021	13
11	Insights and Challenges for Applying Bipolar Membranes in Advanced Electrochemical Energy Systems ACS Energy Letters ·Marijn A. Blommaert, David Aili, Ramato Ashu Tufa, Qingfeng Li, Wilson A. Smith, David A. Vermaas	2021	170
12	Electrochemical CO ₂ reduction on nanostructured metal electrodes: fact or defect? Chemical Science ·Recep Kaş, Kailun Yang, Divya Bohra, Ruud Kortlever, Thomas Burdyny, Wilson A. Smith	2020	99
13	In Situ ATR–SEIRAS of Carbon Dioxide Reduction at a Plasmonic Silver Cathode Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Elizabeth R. Corson, Recep Kaş, Robert Kostecki, Jeffrey J. Urban, Wilson A. Smith, Bryan D. McCloskey, Ruud Kortlever	2020	97
14	CO ₂ reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes and why catalytic performance must be assessed at commercially-relevant conditions Energy & Environmental Science ·Thomas Burdyny, Wilson A. Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2019	914
15	Modeling the electrical double layer to understand the reaction environment in a CO ₂ electrocatalytic system Energy & Environmental Science ·Divya Bohra, Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry, Thomas Burdyny, Evgeny A. Pidko, Wilson A. Smith	2019	172
16	Hydrocarbon Synthesis via Photoenzymatic Decarboxylation of Carboxylic Acids Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Wuyuan Zhang, Ming Ma, Mieke M. E. Huijbers, Georgy A. Filonenko, Evgeny A. Pidko, Morten M. C. H. van Schie, 김서윤, Bastien O. Burek, Jonathan Z. Bloh, Willem J. H. van Berkel, Wilson A. Smith, Frank Hollmann	2019	137
17	Suppressing H₂ Evolution and Promoting Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to CO at Low Overpotentials by Alloying Au with Pd ACS Catalysis ·Marco Valenti, Muhamad Fakih, Recep Kaş, Divya Bohra, Ming Ma, B. D. WU, Liangyong Chu, Sixto Giménez, Juan Bisquert, B. Dam, Wilson A. Smith	2019	93
18	Au Dendrite Electrocatalysts for CO₂ Electrolysis The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Nathan T. Nesbitt, Ming Ma, Bartek J. Trześniewski, Samantha T. Jaszewski, Fazel Tafti, Michael J. Burns, Wilson A. Smith, Michael Naughton	2018	31
19	Changes in Microbial Community Structure With Depth in a Simulated Vadose Zone Environment AGUFM ·Wilson A. Smith, D. C. Cooper, E. S. Awakowa, Mitchell A. Plummer, Nikolay Sazonov	2003	1
20	Feasibility of low cost silicon solar cells. Photovoltaic Specialists Conference ·Salvador Guirao, Wilson A. Smith, Михайлова Татьяна Иосифовна, Budiyanto Ahaliki, R. J. Stirn	1972	5

About Wilson A. Smith

Wilson A. Smith is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrochemistry, Materials Chemistry and Process Chemistry and Technology, having authored 148 papers that have together received 12.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (65 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (40 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (39 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (31 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (29 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (26 papers), ZnO doping and properties (15 papers) and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (10.5k citations), Catalysis (4.1k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (871 citations), Electrochemistry (895 citations) and Materials Chemistry (4.8k citations). Wilson A. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include Thomas Burdyny, Ming Ma, Bartek J. Trześniewski, David A. Vermaas, Recep Kaş, Yiping Zhao, Kristina Djanashvili, Nienke J. Firet, Kailun Yang and Abraham Wolcott. Their work appears in journals such as ACS Energy Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Catalysis, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Energy & Environmental Science.

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