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Overview

Wan Ru Leow is affiliated with A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on energy and engineering fields, with specific interests in renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, catalysis, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

Wan Ru Leow has contributed to a number of scientific publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Chloride-mediated selective electrosynthesis of ethylene and propylene oxides at high current density, 2020, Science
  • Tuning OH binding energy enables selective electrochemical oxidation of ethylene to ethylene glycol, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • A chemically mediated artificial neuron, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Redox-mediated electrosynthesis of ethylene oxide from CO2 and water, 2022, Nature Catalysis
  • Thermal-Disrupting Interface Mitigates Intercellular Cohesion Loss for Accurate Topical Antibacterial Therapy, 2020, Advanced Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wan Ru Leow include:

  • Yanwei Lum
  • Ziyu Mi
  • Mingsheng Zhang
  • Ziyun Wang
  • Sung-Fu Hung

Publication venues where Wan Ru Leow has frequently contributed are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nature Catalysis
  • Nature Electronics

Best Publications

  • Nature-Inspired Structural Materials for Flexible Electronic Devices

    Yaqing Liu;Ke He;Geng Chen;Wan Ru Leow

  • Microstructured Graphene Arrays for Highly Sensitive Flexible Tactile Sensors

    Bowen Zhu;Zhiqiang Niu;Hong Wang;Wan Ru Leow

  • Silk Fibroin for Flexible Electronic Devices

    Bowen Zhu;Hong Wang;Wan Ru Leow;Yurong Cai

  • Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials to Enhance Sensitivity of Stretchable Strain Sensors.

    Ying Jiang;Zhiyuan Liu;Naoji Matsuhisa;Dianpeng Qi

  • 3D Printed Photoresponsive Devices Based on Shape Memory Composites

    Hui Yang;Wan Ru Leow;Ting Wang;Juan Wang

  • A Mechanically and Electrically Self-Healing Supercapacitor

    Hua Wang;Bowen Zhu;Wencao Jiang;Yun Yang

  • Plasticizing Silk Protein for On-Skin Stretchable Electrodes.

    Geng Chen;Naoji Matsuhisa;Zhiyuan Liu;Dianpeng Qi

  • Suspended Wavy Graphene Microribbons for Highly Stretchable Microsupercapacitors

    Dianpeng Qi;Zhiyuan Liu;Yan Liu;Wan Ru Leow

  • Supramolecular hydrogels for antimicrobial therapy

    Benhui Hu;Cally Owh;Pei Lin Chee;Wan Ru Leow

  • Broadband Extrinsic Self-Trapped Exciton Emission in Sn-Doped 2D Lead-Halide Perovskites

    Jiancan Yu;Jintao Kong;Wei Hao;Xintong Guo

  • Wet-Chemical Processing of Phosphorus Composite Nanosheets for High-Rate and High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Yanyan Zhang;Xianhong Rui;Yuxin Tang;Yaqing Liu

  • 3D printing of flexible electronic devices

    Hui Yang;Wan Ru Leow;Xiaodong Chen

  • Configurable Resistive Switching between Memory and Threshold Characteristics for Protein‐Based Devices

    Hong Wang;Hong Wang;Yuanmin Du;Yingtao Li;Bowen Zhu

  • Conductive Inks Based on a Lithium Titanate Nanotube Gel for High-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries with Customized Configuration

    Yuxin Tang;Yanyan Zhang;Xianhong Rui;Dianpeng Qi

  • Unravelling the Correlation between the Aspect Ratio of Nanotubular Structures and Their Electrochemical Performance To Achieve High‐Rate and Long‐Life Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    Yuxin Tang;Yanyan Zhang;Jiyang Deng;Dianpeng Qi

  • Highly Stretchable, Compliant, Polymeric Microelectrode Arrays for In Vivo Electrophysiological Interfacing.

    Dianpeng Qi;Zhiyuan Liu;Yan Liu;Ying Jiang

  • Programmable Photo‐Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Based on Multi‐Segmented CdS‐Au Nanorod Arrays

    Xiaotian Wang;Chihao Liow;Dianpeng Qi;Bowen Zhu

  • A Synergistic Capture Strategy for Enhanced Detection and Elimination of Bacteria

    Yong-Qiang Li;Bowen Zhu;Yuangang Li;Wan Ru Leow

  • An Artificial Somatic Reflex Arc

    Ke He;Yaqing Liu;Ming Wang;Geng Chen

  • Resistive Switching Memory Devices Based on Proteins

    Hong Wang;Fanben Meng;Bowen Zhu;Wan Ru Leow

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen Nanyang Technological University
Bowen Zhu
Bowen Zhu Monash University
Dianpeng Qi
Dianpeng Qi Harbin Institute of Technology
Shuzhou Li
Shuzhou Li Nanyang Technological University
Yuxin Tang
Yuxin Tang Fuzhou University
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University
Xian Jun Loh
Xian Jun Loh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Mingchuan Luo
Mingchuan Luo Peking University
Chwee Teck Lim
Chwee Teck Lim National University of Singapore
Jun Li
Jun Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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