Yanwei Lum

12.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
74 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Yanwei Lum is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanwei Lum has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 40 papers in Catalysis and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanwei Lum's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (58 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (29 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (26 papers). Yanwei Lum is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (58 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (29 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (26 papers). Yanwei Lum collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and China. Yanwei Lum's co-authors include Joel W. Ager, Alexis T. Bell, Edward H. Sargent, Youngkook Kwon, David Sinton, Fengwang Li, Mingchuan Luo, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Meenesh R. Singh and Dae‐Hyun Nam and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yanwei Lum

69 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper–Nicke... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2020 2021 2016 2020 2022 250 500 750 1000
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper–Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption
    2020 1.1k citations Yuhang Wang, Aoni Xu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. CO 2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid
    2021 1.0k citations Fengwang Li, Adnan Ozden et al. profile →
  3. Hydrolysis of Electrolyte Cations Enhances the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 over Ag and Cu
    2016 838 citations Yanwei Lum, Joel W. Ager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Chloride-mediated selective electrosynthesis of ethylene and propylene oxides at high current density
    2020 363 citations Wan Ru Leow, Yanwei Lum et al. profile →
  5. Machine learning for a sustainable energy future
    2022 297 citations Zhenpeng Yao, Yanwei Lum et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  6. Nanocurvature-induced field effects enable control over the activity of single-atom electrocatalysts
    2024 92 citations B.X. Wang, Meng Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanwei Lum Singapore 36 7.3k 4.8k 2.4k 2.1k 1.0k 74 8.6k
Dae‐Hyun Nam South Korea 29 5.8k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 859 0.8× 63 7.3k
Qi Lu China 51 8.2k 1.1× 4.1k 0.8× 3.9k 1.6× 4.3k 2.0× 789 0.8× 147 11.2k
Pengtang Wang China 44 7.5k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 3.0k 1.3× 4.4k 2.1× 436 0.4× 65 8.9k
Qun Fan China 23 4.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 518 0.5× 34 5.0k
Mingchuan Luo China 58 13.6k 1.9× 3.9k 0.8× 5.5k 2.3× 7.5k 3.6× 662 0.6× 130 15.6k
Seoin Back South Korea 44 6.6k 0.9× 2.1k 0.4× 3.8k 1.6× 3.5k 1.7× 249 0.2× 117 8.5k
Antonio J. Martín Switzerland 32 3.1k 0.4× 2.8k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 970 0.5× 874 0.8× 73 5.2k
Xia Yang China 26 3.2k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 2.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 204 0.2× 48 4.8k
Hyung‐Suk Oh South Korea 54 9.2k 1.3× 3.2k 0.7× 3.4k 1.4× 5.8k 2.8× 561 0.5× 185 11.1k
Zedong Zhang China 43 5.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.3× 3.8k 1.6× 2.4k 1.2× 261 0.2× 120 7.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Bo, Aidan Q. Fenwick, Chao Wu, et al.. (2025). A reversed gas diffusion electrode enables collection of high purity gas products from CO 2 electroreduction. EES Catalysis. 3(2). 318–326. 5 indexed citations
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Wu, Bo, Ruihu Lu, Chao Wu, et al.. (2025). Pt/IrOx enables selective electrochemical C-H chlorination at high current. Nature Communications. 16(1). 166–166. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiayi, Juan Manuel Arce‐Ramos, Ioannis Katsounaros, et al.. (2025). Modulating Oxygen Affinity to Enhance Liquid Products for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Monoxide. SmartMat. 6(2). 3 indexed citations
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Sykes, E. Charles H., Javier Pérez‐Ramírez, Ming Yang, et al.. (2025). The future of single-atom catalysis: From academic insights to industrial application. Cell Reports Physical Science. 6(10). 102833–102833.
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Ozden, Adnan, Mingchuan Luo, & Yanwei Lum. (2025). Point-source carbon capture and direct air capture – A technology overview. Chemical Engineering Journal. 519. 165535–165535. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Qin, Tao Wang, Lei Wang, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Assembly of a Defective Cu Catalyst for High Current CO 2 Electrolysis to Methane in a Zero‐Gap Electrolyzer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(49). e202515396–e202515396. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Meng, Adnan Ozden, Tian Wang, et al.. (2025). From Pollution to Value: Electrochemical Systems for Transforming Flue Gas into Chemicals and Fuels. Advanced Materials. 37(50). e09581–e09581.
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Yang, Qin, Xiu Wang, Ji‐Guang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ethylene electrosynthesis at low voltages enabled by dopant-induced modulation of the rate-determining step. Nature Synthesis. 4(11). 1396–1407. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Muliang, Yuanjun Gao, Qi Zhou, et al.. (2023). Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y. Nature Chemistry. 15(5). 666–676. 70 indexed citations
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Yam, Kah Meng, Albertus D. Handoko, Ying Chuan Tan, et al.. (2023). Covalency-aided electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO on sulfide-derived Cu–Sb. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(3). 1840–1851. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Gaoliang, Yuanjian Li, Jianbiao Wang, et al.. (2023). Realizing horizontal magnesium platelet deposition and suppressed surface passivation for high-performance magnesium metal batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(3). 1141–1152. 38 indexed citations
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Xu, Jinhui, Hwee Ting Ang, Bingbing Wang, et al.. (2023). Electrophotochemical Synthesis Facilitated Trifluoromethylation of Arenes Using Trifluoroacetic Acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(45). 24965–24971. 41 indexed citations
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Yao, Zhenpeng, Yanwei Lum, Andrew Johnston, et al.. (2022). Machine learning for a sustainable energy future. Nature Reviews Materials. 8(3). 202–215. 297 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Xin, et al.. (2022). Battery Materials Discovery and Smart Grid Management using Machine Learning. Batteries & Supercaps. 5(11). 5 indexed citations
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Eng, Alex Yong Sheng, Chhail Bihari Soni, Yanwei Lum, et al.. (2022). Theory-guided experimental design in battery materials research. Science Advances. 8(19). eabm2422–eabm2422. 111 indexed citations
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Handoko, Albertus D., Hetian Chen, Yanwei Lum, et al.. (2020). Two-Dimensional Titanium and Molybdenum Carbide MXenes as Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction. iScience. 23(6). 101181–101181. 141 indexed citations
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Handoko, Albertus D., Hetian Chen, Yanwei Lum, et al.. (2020). Two-Dimensional Titanium and Molybdenum Carbide MXenes as Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction. PMC. 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Mingchuan, Ziyun Wang, Yuguang Li, et al.. (2019). Hydroxide promotes carbon dioxide electroreduction to ethanol on copper via tuning of adsorbed hydrogen. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5814–5814. 325 indexed citations
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Lum, Yanwei, Tao Cheng, William A. Goddard, & Joel W. Ager. (2018). Electrochemical CO Reduction Builds Solvent Water into Oxygenate Products. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(30). 9337–9340. 219 indexed citations
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Niu, Kai‐Yang, You Xu, Haicheng Wang, et al.. (2017). A spongy nickel-organic CO 2 reduction photocatalyst for nearly 100% selective CO production. Science Advances. 3(7). e1700921–e1700921. 191 indexed citations

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