Ying‐Rui Lu

13.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
184 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Ying‐Rui Lu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying‐Rui Lu has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 81 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 77 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ying‐Rui Lu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (74 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (28 papers). Ying‐Rui Lu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (74 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (28 papers). Ying‐Rui Lu collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, China and Australia. Ying‐Rui Lu's co-authors include Ting‐Shan Chan, Chung‐Li Dong, Yongwen Tan, Ming Peng, Min Luo, Min Liu, Hongmei Li, Kang Liu, Frank M. F. de Groot and Junwei Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ying‐Rui Lu

173 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

Atomically dispersed antimony on carbon nitride for the a... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2021 2019 2020 2020 2020 250 500 750
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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. Atomically dispersed antimony on carbon nitride for the artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide
    2021 907 citations Ying‐Rui Lu, Bin Liu et al. profile →
  2. Single platinum atoms embedded in nanoporous cobalt selenide as electrocatalyst for accelerating hydrogen evolution reaction
    2019 590 citations Ming Peng, Yang Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Iron phthalocyanine with coordination induced electronic localization to boost oxygen reduction reaction
    2020 570 citations Ying‐Rui Lu, Ting‐Shan Chan et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Coexisting Single‐Atomic Fe and Ni Sites on Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon as a Highly Efficient ORR Electrocatalyst
    2020 557 citations Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Ying‐Rui Lu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Black phosphorus composites with engineered interfaces for high-rate high-capacity lithium storage
    2020 474 citations Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Ying‐Rui Lu et al. profile →
  6. Identification of the Highly Active Co–N4 Coordination Motif for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide
    2022 408 citations Ying‐Rui Lu, Ting‐Shan Chan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Zirconium‐Regulation‐Induced Bifunctionality in 3D Cobalt–Iron Oxide Nanosheets for Overall Water Splitting
    2019 368 citations Ying‐Rui Lu, Chung‐Li Dong et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  8. Rational strain engineering of single-atom ruthenium on nanoporous MoS2 for highly efficient hydrogen evolution
    2021 349 citations Ming Peng, Ying‐Rui Lu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Unraveling the Origin of Sulfur‐Doped Fe‐N‐C Single‐Atom Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity: Effect of Iron Spin‐State Tuning
    2021 313 citations Zhaoyang Chen, Huan Niu et al. profile →
  10. Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production
    2024 90 citations Ying‐Rui Lu, Jie Ding et al. profile →
  11. Active Hydrogen Enrichment on Cu 6 Sn 5 ‐type High Entropy Intermetallics for Efficient Nitrate Reduction Reaction
    2025 23 citations Ziwei Xiang, Ying‐Rui Lu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ying‐Rui Lu Taiwan 46 7.8k 5.6k 4.3k 1.4k 896 184 10.7k
Peixin Cui China 50 5.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.6× 3.7k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 725 0.8× 162 9.1k
Li Shi China 53 5.8k 0.7× 3.4k 0.6× 5.4k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 677 0.8× 163 9.6k
Peng Fei Liu China 41 6.0k 0.8× 3.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 436 0.5× 238 7.2k
Mengran Li Australia 45 5.1k 0.7× 3.4k 0.6× 2.6k 0.6× 1.7k 1.2× 810 0.9× 127 7.5k
Yanping Zhu China 41 5.1k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 899 0.6× 735 0.8× 115 7.1k
Xu Zhao China 40 4.9k 0.6× 3.8k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 559 0.4× 898 1.0× 146 6.9k
Shuo Dou China 44 8.6k 1.1× 8.0k 1.4× 3.0k 0.7× 683 0.5× 2.1k 2.3× 79 11.3k
Yongchao Huang China 60 6.9k 0.9× 6.9k 1.2× 5.0k 1.2× 632 0.4× 2.4k 2.7× 125 11.1k
Luo Yu China 48 9.8k 1.3× 7.7k 1.4× 2.7k 0.6× 900 0.6× 779 0.9× 92 11.0k
Jinyu Ye China 41 5.6k 0.7× 2.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.6× 2.1k 1.5× 359 0.4× 133 7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ying‐Rui Lu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bai, Haoyun, Jilong Li, Feng Xie, et al.. (2025). Single-atom tungsten doping induced chemical–electrochemical coupled pathway on Ni(OH) 2 enables efficient urea electrooxidation. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(5). 2415–2425. 16 indexed citations
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Xiang, Ziwei, Ying‐Rui Lu, Linghu Meng, et al.. (2025). Active Hydrogen Enrichment on Cu 6 Sn 5 ‐type High Entropy Intermetallics for Efficient Nitrate Reduction Reaction. Advanced Materials. 37(28). e2501886–e2501886. 23 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zeng, Yaqiong, Jian Zhao, Weijue Wang, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the Dynamic Low-Spin State Evolution of Single-Fe-Atom Sites for Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42539–42548. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qi, Jing Zhou, Cheng‐Wei Kao, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Electronic Interactions Induced by Self‐Assembled Amorphous RuCo Bimetallenes/MXene Heterostructures for Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia. Small. 21(25). e2502635–e2502635. 3 indexed citations
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Ma, Jianjie, Yiyu Chen, Yuchun Liu, et al.. (2024). Robust iron-doped nickel phosphides in membrane-electrode assembly for industrial water electrolysis. Electrochimica Acta. 500. 144744–144744. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Ying‐Rui, et al.. (2024). Stepwise chemical-electrochemical cycles for decoupling modular biomass oxidation and hydrogen evolution. Chemical Engineering Journal. 505. 158764–158764. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Yucheng, Yujie Wu, Ying‐Rui Lu, et al.. (2024). Direct Identification of O─O Bond Formation Through Three‐Step Oxidation During Water Splitting by Operando Soft X‐ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Advanced Science. 11(40). e2401236–e2401236. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jilu, Tian Zhao, Xiaoxia Yang, et al.. (2024). What impact does ammonia have on the microstructure of the precursor and the electrochemical performance of Ni-rich layered oxides?. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(2). 1181–1190. 5 indexed citations
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Peng, Ming, Xiaoxiao Li, Jiao Lan, et al.. (2024). Molecule activation enabled by Mo dopants in nanoporous multi-component CuPd-based alloys for enhanced nitrophenol reduction reaction. Separation and Purification Technology. 357. 130198–130198. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Cheng‐Yu, Yi Chen, Kun‐Han Lin, et al.. (2024). A catalyst family of high-entropy alloy atomic layers with square atomic arrangements comprising iron- and platinum-group metals. Science Advances. 10(30). eadl3693–eadl3693. 37 indexed citations
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Qin, Yi, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Xian Liang, et al.. (2024). DNA-Anchored Single-Molecule Iron Phthalocyanine As an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Fuel Cells. ACS Catalysis. 14(10). 7514–7525. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Shifu, Fuhua Li, Jian Zhao, et al.. (2024). Manipulating C-C coupling pathway in electrochemical CO2 reduction for selective ethylene and ethanol production over single-atom alloy catalyst. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10247–10247. 73 indexed citations
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Huang, Yucheng, Jie Chen, Ying‐Rui Lu, et al.. (2023). Single-atom cobalt-incorporating carbon nitride for photocatalytic solar hydrogen conversion: An X-ray spectromicroscopy study. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 264. 147319–147319. 6 indexed citations
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Wei, Peng, Jing Zhou, Ying‐Rui Lu, et al.. (2023). Palladium metallene confined on MXene with increased hydroxyl binding strength for highly efficient ethanol electrooxidation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(23). e2222096120–e2222096120. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Ruru, Jian Zhao, Yifan Li, et al.. (2023). Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopic Tracking the Metastable State of Atomically Dispersed Tin in Copper Oxide for Selective CO2 Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(37). 20683–20691. 57 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yaqiong, Jian Zhao, Shifu Wang, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the Electronic Structure and Dynamics of the Atomically Dispersed Iron Sites in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(28). 15600–15610. 98 indexed citations
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Hsiao, Kai‐Yuan, Ying‐Rui Lu, Ming‐Yen Lu, et al.. (2023). Synchronous regulation of Schottky/p-n dual junction in Prussian blue-derived Janus heterostructures: A path to ultrafast long life potassium ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 474. 145992–145992. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Xuning, Yaqiong Zeng, Ying‐Rui Lu, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the In Situ Generation of a Monovalent Fe(I) Site in the Single-Fe-Atom Catalyst for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 11(12). 7292–7301. 80 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhaoyang, Huan Niu, Jie Ding, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the Origin of Sulfur‐Doped Fe‐N‐C Single‐Atom Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity: Effect of Iron Spin‐State Tuning. Angewandte Chemie. 133(48). 25608–25614. 59 indexed citations

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