Youngkook Kwon

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
93 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Youngkook Kwon is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Youngkook Kwon has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 27 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Youngkook Kwon's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (51 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (47 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (21 papers). Youngkook Kwon is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (51 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (47 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (21 papers). Youngkook Kwon collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Netherlands and United States. Youngkook Kwon's co-authors include Marc T. M. Koper, Klaas Jan P. Schouten, Alexis T. Bell, Paramaconi Rodríguez, Joel W. Ager, Yanwei Lum, Meenesh R. Singh, Yuvraj Y. Birdja, Cornelis J. M. van der Ham and Ruud Kortlever and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Youngkook Kwon

89 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Hydrolysis of Electrolyte Cations Enhances the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ over Ag and Cu

2016 838 citations Youngkook Kwon et al. profile →
A new mechanism for the selectivity to C1 and C2 species in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on copper electrodes

2011 826 citations Klaas Jan P. Schouten, Youngkook Kwon et al. profile →
Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and methane at an immobilized cobalt protoporphyrin

2015 523 citations Youngkook Kwon, Klaas Jan P. Schouten et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Youngkook Kwon South Korea	43	6.9k	3.2k	2.5k	2.1k	1.2k	93	8.0k
Hongwen Huang China	44	5.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.5×	378 0.3×	129	7.0k
Xia‐Guang Zhang China	39	3.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	2.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	405 0.3×	100	5.5k
Kaian Sun China	47	7.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	2.9k 1.2×	5.6k 2.7×	504 0.4×	78	9.4k
Hyo Sang Jeon South Korea	35	5.3k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	160 0.1×	71	6.1k
Zengcai Liu United States	29	4.3k 0.6×	817 0.3×	2.4k 0.9×	5.9k 2.8×	303 0.3×	47	8.1k
Seunghwa Lee South Korea	27	5.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	3.4k 1.6×	169 0.1×	64	5.9k
Carlos G. Morales‐Guio United States	21	5.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	3.0k 1.4×	136 0.1×	49	6.4k
Qun Fan China	23	4.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	171 0.1×	34	5.0k
Zisheng Zhang China	32	3.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	181 0.2×	95	4.5k
Chongyi Ling China	40	5.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.7×	2.1k 1.0×	151 0.1×	92	7.2k

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Kong, Tae‐Hoon, et al.. (2025). A Cathode Is the Key Contributor to the Initial Degradation of Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Letters. 10(8). 3647–3654. 5 indexed citations

Lee, Hojeong, et al.. (2025). Foreign cation-promoted active species formation enables efficient electrochemical glycerol valorization. Chemical Communications. 61(44). 8011–8014. 3 indexed citations

Choi, Hyeonuk, et al.. (2025). Integration of biomass valorization and bicarbonate electrolysis for low-voltage production of value-added chemicals. Applied Surface Science Advances. 28. 100798–100798. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Jin Ho, Hojeong Lee, Jongkyoung Kim, et al.. (2025). Energy‐Efficient Dual Formate Electrosynthesis via Coupled Formaldehyde Oxidation and CO ₂ Reduction at Ultra‐Low Cell Voltage. Angewandte Chemie. 137(47).

Park, Jonghoon, Sojung Park, Eunji Jin, et al.. (2025). A Structure‐Defined Cu(I) Dual‐Atom Catalyst with a Cu ₂ N ₆ Motif in a Metal‐Organic Framework for CO Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(5). e22583–e22583.

Lee, Hojeong, et al.. (2025). Gas-free glycerol oxidation in a membrane-free electrolyzer for pure hydrogen and formate production with stable Ru-modified Co3O4 catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal. 523. 168968–168968.

Lee, Yeongdae, Junmo Seong, Jisu Lee, et al.. (2025). Intramolecular Double Activation by Biligands Sharing a Single Metal Atom for Preferred Two-Electron Oxygen Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(14). 21156–21167. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Hojeong, et al.. (2024). Scalable Low-Temperature CO₂ Electrolysis: Current Status and Outlook. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). 3383–3399. 11 indexed citations

Kong, Tae‐Hoon, et al.. (2024). Direction of oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst evaluation for an anion exchange membrane CO₂ electrolyzer. EES Catalysis. 2(4). 911–922. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Jin Ho, Hojeong Lee, Woo Yeong Noh, et al.. (2024). Tuning CuMgAl-Layered Double Hydroxide Nanostructures to Achieve CH₄ and C₂₊ Product Selectivity in CO₂ Electroreduction. Nano Letters. 24(30). 9322–9330. 13 indexed citations

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Thangavel, Pandiarajan, Hojeong Lee, Tae‐Hoon Kong, et al.. (2023). Immobilizing Low‐Cost Metal Nitrides in Electrochemically Reconstructed Platinum Group Metal (PGM)‐Free Oxy‐(Hydroxides) Surface for Exceptional OER Kinetics in Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (Adv. Energy Mater. 6/2023). Advanced Energy Materials. 13(6). 1 indexed citations

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Kong, Tae‐Hoon, Pandiarajan Thangavel, Hansaem Choi, et al.. (2023). In-Situ Ionomer-Free Catalyst-Coated Membranes for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Letters. 8(11). 4666–4673. 44 indexed citations

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Choi, Hansaem, Jinhong Mun, Eunji Jin, et al.. (2023). Nanozyme Based on Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework for Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. Small Structures. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

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Sultan, Siraj, Hojeong Lee, Hansaem Choi, et al.. (2023). Copper with an atomic-scale spacing for efficient electrocatalytic co-reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrate to urea. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(5). 2003–2013. 108 indexed citations

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Sultan, Siraj, Hojeong Lee, Sojung Park, et al.. (2022). Interface rich CuO/Al₂CuO₄ surface for selective ethylene production from electrochemical CO₂ conversion. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(6). 2397–2409. 124 indexed citations

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Choi, Hansaem, Jinhong Mun, Eunji Jin, et al.. (2022). Nanozyme Based on Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework for Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 9 indexed citations

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Kwon, Youngkook & Marc T. M. Koper. (2013). Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation and Deoxygenation of Glucose on Solid Metal Electrodes. ChemSusChem. 6(3). 455–462. 64 indexed citations

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Kwon, Youngkook, Klaas Jan P. Schouten, & Marc T. M. Koper. (2011). Mechanism of the Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol on Polycrystalline Gold and Platinum Electrodes. ChemCatChem. 3(7). 1176–1185. 281 indexed citations

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Uhm, Sunghyun, Hye Jin Lee, Youngkook Kwon, & Jaeyoung Lee. (2008). A Stable and Cost‐Effective Anode Catalyst Structure for Formic Acid Fuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(52). 10163–10166. 100 indexed citations

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Ha, K. S., et al.. (2004). Wire-wrap Models for Subchannel Blockage Analysis. Nuclear Engineering and Technology. 36(2). 165–174. 6 indexed citations

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