Yu Katayama

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Yu Katayama is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Katayama has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Katayama's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers). Yu Katayama is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers). Yu Katayama collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Yu Katayama's co-authors include Yang Shao‐Horn, Livia Giordano, Reshma R. Rao, Jonathan Hwang, Yang Yu, Toshiaki Matsui, Koichi Eguchi, Hiroki Muroyama, Takeou Okanishi and Filippo Maglia and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yu Katayama

66 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Perovskites in catalysis and electrocatalysis

2017 1.5k citations Jonathan Hwang, Reshma R. Rao et al. Science profile →
Revealing electrolyte oxidation via carbonate dehydrogenation on Ni-based oxides in Li-ion batteries by in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

2019 348 citations Yirui Zhang, Yu Katayama et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces

2020 291 citations Reshma R. Rao, Manuel J. Kolb et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Katayama Japan	27	2.6k	2.4k	1.6k	1.0k	542	71	4.5k
Cheng‐Hao Chuang Taiwan	33	2.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	955 0.9×	343 0.6×	70	5.3k
Johannes Voss United States	21	2.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	837 0.8×	223 0.4×	42	4.4k
Jiabo Le China	29	2.2k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	537 0.5×	1.1k 2.1×	73	4.0k
Xiaojing Liu China	30	3.5k 1.4×	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	355 0.3×	433 0.8×	69	5.0k
Ted H. Yu United States	22	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	225 0.2×	384 0.7×	36	3.4k
Beibei Xiao China	37	2.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	521 0.5×	210 0.4×	149	4.5k
Ludwig Jörissen Germany	28	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	239 0.2×	228 0.4×	88	3.6k
Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka Germany	47	4.9k 1.9×	4.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.4×	613 0.6×	2.0k 3.6×	188	7.2k
Chien‐Te Chen Taiwan	35	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	262 0.3×	247 0.5×	161	4.1k
Shaorui Sun China	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	327 0.3×	145 0.3×	75	3.3k

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Westhead, Olivia, James O. Douglas, S. Conroy, et al.. (2025). In situ spectroscopy reveals how water-driven SEI formation controls selectivity in Li-mediated N ₂ reduction. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(18). 8414–8429.

Kim, Haesol, Minho M. Kim, Dong Hyun Kim, et al.. (2025). Cation Effect on the Electrochemical Platinum Dissolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(5). 4667–4674. 8 indexed citations

Bagger, Alexander, Olivia Westhead, Yasuyuki Kondo, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia: Drawing a Path Toward Energy Efficiency. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2024-01(39). 2312–2312.

Kondo, Yasuyuki, et al.. (2024). Stabilization of lithium metal in concentrated electrolytes: effects of electrode potential and solid electrolyte interphase formation. Faraday Discussions. 253(0). 314–328. 4 indexed citations

Westhead, Olivia, Benjamin Moss, Yu Katayama, et al.. (2023). Water Increases the Faradaic Selectivity of Li-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 8(2). 1230–1235. 47 indexed citations

Bagger, Alexander, Olivia Westhead, Yasuyuki Kondo, et al.. (2023). Searching for the Rules of Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation. ACS Catalysis. 13(22). 14513–14522. 31 indexed citations

Katayama, Yu. (2023). <i>Operando</i> Spectroscopy-Inspired Design of Electrochemical Interface. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 91(10). 101004–101004. 1 indexed citations

Westhead, Olivia, Alexander Bagger, Zonghao Shen, et al.. (2022). The role of ion solvation in lithium mediated nitrogen reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(24). 12746–12758. 51 indexed citations

Huang, Botao, Reshma R. Rao, Sifan You, et al.. (2021). Cation- and pH-Dependent Hydrogen Evolution and Oxidation Reaction Kinetics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(10). 1674–1687. 236 indexed citations

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Katayama, Yu, Reshma R. Rao, Jonathan Hwang, et al.. (2021). Direct Observation of Surface-Bound Intermediates During Methanol Oxidation on Platinum Under Alkaline Conditions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(48). 26321–26331. 17 indexed citations

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Huang, Botao, Yanming Wang, Yirui Zhang, et al.. (2021). Cation-Dependent Interfacial Structures and Kinetics for Outer-Sphere Electron-Transfer Reactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(8). 4397–4411. 69 indexed citations

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Vijay, Sudarshan, Henrik H. Kristoffersen, Yu Katayama, et al.. (2021). How to extract adsorption energies, adsorbate–adsorbate interaction parameters and saturation coverages from temperature programmed desorption experiments. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(42). 24396–24402. 6 indexed citations

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Vijay, Sudarshan, Henrik H. Kristoffersen, Yu Katayama, et al.. (2021). Interaction of CO with Gold in an Electrochemical Environment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(32). 17684–17689. 11 indexed citations

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Rao, Reshma R., Botao Huang, Yu Katayama, et al.. (2021). pH- and Cation-Dependent Water Oxidation on Rutile RuO₂(110). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(15). 8195–8207. 103 indexed citations

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Rao, Reshma R., Manuel J. Kolb, Livia Giordano, et al.. (2020). Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces. Nature Catalysis. 3(6). 516–525. 291 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mezzavilla, Stefano, Yu Katayama, Reshma R. Rao, et al.. (2019). Activity–or Lack Thereof–of RuO₂-Based Electrodes in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(29). 17765–17773. 15 indexed citations

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Katayama, Yu, Francesco Nattino, Livia Giordano, et al.. (2018). An In Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: Selectivity Dependence on Surface C-Bound and O-Bound Reaction Intermediates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(10). 5951–5963. 254 indexed citations

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Hwang, Jonathan, Reshma R. Rao, Yu Katayama, et al.. (2018). CO₂ Reactivity on Cobalt-Based Perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(35). 20391–20401. 27 indexed citations

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Hwang, Jonathan, Reshma R. Rao, Livia Giordano, et al.. (2017). Perovskites in catalysis and electrocatalysis. Science. 358(6364). 751–756. 1481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Katayama, Yu, Takeou Okanishi, Hiroki Muroyama, Toshiaki Matsui, & Koichi Eguchi. (2016). Enhanced Supply of Hydroxyl Species in CeO₂-Modified Platinum Catalyst Studied by in Situ ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis. 6(3). 2026–2034. 106 indexed citations

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