Selected Publications

• Chenglong Wang, Shengzhou Xu, Hexing Yang, Wangjiang Gao, Chunjing Ran & Dan Ren*. Cation Effect on the Dynamics of Intermediates in Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide in Acids. ACS Catal. 15, 15372-15386 (2025).
• Yafei Yao^#, Shengzhou Xu^#, Hangyu Bu^#, Wen Yan, Zhe Zheng, Dan Ren* & Ming Ma*. Unraveling the Impact of Common-Ion Effect on Acidic CO₂ Electroreduction via Exploring Local pH Variation. ACS Catal. 15, 12114-12122 (2025).
• Wangjiang Gao, Chenglong Wang, Hexing Yang, Chunjing Ran, Shengzhou Xu & Dan Ren*. Modulating CO₂/H₂O Ratio at Hydrophobic Catalytic Interface Promotes C-C Coupling in Acidic CO₂ Electroreduction. Adv. Funct. Mater. 35, e09314 (2025).
• Shengzhou Xu, Chenglong Wang, Chunjing Ran, Hexing Yang, Wangjiang Gao, Bitao Dong*, Yuhang Liu & Dan Ren*. Tuning Intermediate Binding Enables Selective Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide on a Copper-Indium Catalyst. Chem. Sci. 16, 8661-8672 (2025).
• Zi-Hao Zhao & Dan Ren*. Unravelling the Effect of Crystal Facet of Derived-Copper Catalysts on the Electroreducction of Carbon Dioxide under Unified Mass Transport Condition. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64, e202415590 (2025).
• Meng Xia, Linfeng Pan, Yongpeng Liu, Jing Gao, Jun Li, Mounir Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren* & Michael Grätzel*. Efficient Cu₂O Photocathode for Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Formate and Syngas. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 27939-27949 (2023).
• Jing Gao, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Oliver Kröcher, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren* & Michael Grätzel*. Electrochemical Synthesis of Propylene from Carbon Dioxide on Copper Nanocrystals. Nat. Chem. 15, 705-713 (2023).
• Honglei Wang^#, Yunfei Jiao^#, Bing Wu, Dong Wang*, Yueqi Hu, Fei Liang, Chen Shen*, Andrea Knauer, Dan Ren*, Hongguang Wang*, Peter A van Aken, Hongbin Zhang, Michael Grätzel, Zdenek Sofer & Peter Schaaf. Exfoliated 2D Layered and Nonlayered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenides Nanosheets as Promising Electrocatalysts for CO₂ Reduction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62, e202217253 (2023).

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