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Alicia Kyoungjin An

Alicia Kyoungjin An

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
45
Citations
6555
World Ranking
459
National Ranking
156

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
46
Citations
7655
World Ranking
5189
National Ranking
1012

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Alicia Kyoungjin An is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications

Alicia Kyoungjin An has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Desalination
  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Water Research

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's body of work include Muhammad Usman Farid, Jiaxin Guo, Noman Khalid Khanzada, Bhaskar Jyoti Deka, and Pak Wai Wong, reflecting collaborative research efforts in their specialized fields.

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Alicia Kyoungjin An are:

  • "Solvothermal synthesis of copper-doped BiOBr microflowers with enhanced adsorption and visible-light driven photocatalytic degradation of norfloxacin," 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Photothermally enabled MXene hydrogel membrane with integrated solar-driven evaporation and photodegradation for efficient water purification," 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Transforming Ti3C2Tx MXene's intrinsic hydrophilicity into superhydrophobicity for efficient photothermal membrane desalination," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Self-Assembled Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Porphyrin-Ti3C2Tx MXene Janus Membrane for Dual-Functional Enabled Photothermal Desalination," 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Macro-corrugated and nano-patterned hierarchically structured superomniphobic membrane for treatment of low surface tension oily wastewater by membrane distillation," 2020, Water Research

Best Publications

  • Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in water environment: A review

    Anindita Gogoi;Payal Mazumder;Vinay Kumar Tyagi;G.G. Tushara Chaminda

  • PDMS/PVDF hybrid electrospun membrane with superhydrophobic property and drop impact dynamics for dyeing wastewater treatment using membrane distillation

    Alicia Kyoungjin An;Jiaxin Guo;Eui-Jong Lee;Sanghyun Jeong

  • Removal of organic micropollutants using advanced membrane-based water and wastewater treatment: A review

    Noman Khalid Khanzada;Muhammad Usman Farid;Jehad A. Kharraz;Jungwon Choi

  • High flux and antifouling properties of negatively charged membrane for dyeing wastewater treatment by membrane distillation.

    Alicia Kyoungjin An;Jiaxin Guo;Sanghyun Jeong;Eui-Jong Lee

  • Transforming Ti3C2Tx MXene’s intrinsic hydrophilicity into superhydrophobicity for efficient photothermal membrane desalination

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  • Solvothermal synthesis of copper-doped BiOBr microflowers with enhanced adsorption and visible-light driven photocatalytic degradation of norfloxacin

    Xincong Lv;Xincong Lv;Dickson Y.S. Yan;Frank Leung Yuk Lam;Yun Hau Ng

  • Photothermally enabled MXene hydrogel membrane with integrated solar-driven evaporation and photodegradation for efficient water purification

    Baoping Zhang;Pak Wai Wong;Alicia Kyoungjin An

  • Electrospun nanofiber membranes incorporating fluorosilane-coated TiO2 nanocomposite for direct contact membrane distillation

    Eui-Jong Lee;Alicia Kyoungjin An;Tao He;Yun Chul Woo

  • Advanced multi-nozzle electrospun functionalized titanium dioxide/polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene (TiO2/PVDF-HFP) composite membranes for direct contact membrane distillation

    Eui-Jong Lee;Alicia Kyoungjin An;Pejman Hadi;Sangho Lee

  • Enhanced vapor transport in membrane distillation via functionalized carbon nanotubes anchored into electrospun nanofibres

    Alicia Kyoungjin An;Eui-Jong Lee;Jiaxin Guo;Sanghyun Jeong

  • Engineering the Re-Entrant Hierarchy and Surface Energy of PDMS-PVDF Membrane for Membrane Distillation Using a Facile and Benign Microsphere Coating.

    Eui-Jong Lee;Bhaskar Jyoti Deka;Jiaxin Guo;Yun Chul Woo

  • Self-Assembled Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Porphyrin-Ti3C2Tx MXene Janus Membrane for Dual-Functional Enabled Photothermal Desalination.

    Baoping Zhang;Qinfen Gu;Cheng Wang;Qili Gao

  • Anti-wetting behavior of negatively charged superhydrophobic PVDF membranes in direct contact membrane distillation of emulsified wastewaters

    Ying Chen;Ying Chen;Miaomiao Tian;Xuemei Li;Yanqiang Wang

  • Fouling behavior of negatively charged PVDF membrane in membrane distillation for removal of antibiotics from wastewater

    Jiaxin Guo;Muhammad Usman Farid;Eui-Jong Lee;Dickson Yuk-Shing Yan

  • Omniphobic re-entrant PVDF membrane with ZnO nanoparticles composite for desalination of low surface tension oily seawater.

    Bhaskar Jyoti Deka;Jiaxin Guo;Noman Khalid Khanzada;Alicia Kyoungjin An

  • CNTs reinforced super-hydrophobic-oleophilic electrospun polystyrene oil sorbent for enhanced sorption capacity and reusability

    Jingya Wu;Alicia Kyoungjin An;Jiaxin Guo;Eui-Jong Lee

  • Patterned superhydrophobic polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes for membrane distillation: Enhanced flux with improved fouling and wetting resistance

    Jehad A. Kharraz;Alicia Kyoungjin An

  • Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes Incorporating PDMS-Aerogel Superhydrophobic Coating with Enhanced Flux and Improved Antiwettability in Membrane Distillation.

    Bhaskar Jyoti Deka;Eui-Jong Lee;Jiaxin Guo;Jehad Kharraz

  • Potential for energy recovery and greenhouse gas reduction through waste-to-energy technologies

    Sora Yi;Yong-Chul Jang;Alicia Kyoungjin An

  • Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of transport and separation properties of carbon nanotube electrospun membrane distillation

    Jung Gil Lee;Eui-Jong Lee;Sanghyun Jeong;Jiaxin Guo

  • Nanobubble-assisted scaling inhibition in membrane distillation for the treatment of high-salinity brine.

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  • Efficient removal of zinc from water and wastewater effluents by hydroxylated and carboxylated carbon nanotube membranes: Behaviors and mechanisms of dynamic filtration.

    Sharafat Ali;Syed Aziz Ur Rehman;Izaz Ali Shah;Muhammad Usman Farid

Frequent Co-Authors

Ho Kyong Shon
Ho Kyong Shon University of Technology Sydney
Noreddine Ghaffour
Noreddine Ghaffour King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yun Hau Ng
Yun Hau Ng City University of Hong Kong
TorOve Leiknes
TorOve Leiknes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Hassan A. Arafat
Hassan A. Arafat Khalifa University
David Jassby
David Jassby University of California, Los Angeles
Am Jang
Am Jang Sungkyunkwan University
Wey Yang Teoh
Wey Yang Teoh University of New South Wales
Tao He
Tao He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julie M. Cairney
Julie M. Cairney University of Sydney

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