Publications

 

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  • Julia Simon, Lea R. Winter*. “Plasma-activated co-conversion of N2 and C1 gases towards value-added products.” Current Opinion in Green & Sustainable Chemistry 51: 100985 (2025).

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  • Bruce E. Logan*, Mim Rahimi, Li Li, Lea R. Winter, Wei Peng, Brandi J. Robinson. “Viewpoint catalyzing climate solutions through energy and carbon education.” Environmental Science & Technology 58 (46): 20333–20335 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c09632.
 
 

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  • Akash N. Biswas a, Lea R. Winter a, Zhenhua Xie a, and Jingguang G. Chen*. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacsau.2c00533">Utilizing CO2 as a reactant for C3 oxygenate production via tandem reactions.” Journal of the American Chemical Society Au (2023) 3 (2): 293–305.

  

  • Xiaoxiong Wang, Tong Wang, Tianyuan Zhang*, Lea R. Winter, Jinghan Di, Qingshi Tu, Hongying Hu, Edgar Hertwich, Julie B. Zimmerman, and Menachem Elimelech*. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.2c04607">Microalgae commercialization using renewable lignocellulose is economically and environmentally viable.” Environmental Science & Technology (2023) 57 (2): 1144–1156.

Among most read articles in ACS Energy Letters (August and September 2022).

 

  • Lea R. Winter a,*, Nathanial J. Cooper a, Boreum Lee, Sohum K. Patel, Li Wang, Menachem Elimelech. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.2c02439">Mining nontraditional water sources for a distributed hydrogen economy.” Environ. Sci. & Technol. (2022) 56 (15): 10577–10585.

In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (Score 66); reported in 7 news outlets.

Research Highlight: Yanhua Chen. “www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00333-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00333-5">Mining wastewater for hydrogen.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2022) 3: 551.

  • Zhengyang Huo, Lea R. Winter, Xiaoxiong Wang*, Ye Du, Yinhu Wu, Uwe Hübner, Hong-Ying Hu, Menachem Elimelech. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.2c01793">Synergistic nanowire-enhanced electroporation and electro-chlorination for highly efficient water disinfection.” Environ. Sci. & Technol. (2022) 56 (15): 10925–10934.

  • Ying-Jie Zhang a, Gui-Xiang Huang a, Lea R. Winter, Jie-Jie Chen, Lili Tian, Shu-Chuan Mei, Ze Zhang, Fei Chen, Zhi-Yan Guo, Rong Ji, Ye-Zi You, Wen-Wei Li, Han-Qing Yu*, Menachem Elimelech*. “www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30560-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30560-9">Simultaneous nanocatalytic surface activation of pollutants and oxidants for highly efficient water decontamination.” Nature Communications (2022) 13: 1–13.

99th percentile (ranked 1st) of the tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Communications.

Chosen for Editors’ Highlights in Nature Communications.

  • Yumeng Zhao*, Meng Sun*, Lea R. Winter, Shihong Lin, Zhiwei Wang, John C. Crittenden, and Jun Ma. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.1c08725">Emerging challenges and opportunities for electrified membranes to enhance water treatment.” Environ. Sci. & Technol. (2022) 56: 3832–3835.

  • Meng Sun a, Xiaoxiong Wang a, Lea R. Winter, Yumeng Zhao, Wen Ma, Tayler Hedtke, Jae-Hong Kim, Menachem Elimelech*. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00015">Electrified membranes for water treatment applications.” ACS ES&T Engineering (2021) 1: 725–752.

  • Lea R. Winter, Bryony Ashford, Jungmi Hong, Anthony B. Murphy*, Jingguang G. Chen*. “https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.0c03166">Identifying surface reaction intermediates in plasma catalytic ammonia synthesis.” ACS Catalysis (2020) 10: 14763–14774.