Shenghua Chen, principal investigator (PI), and doctoral supervisor of Xi 'an Jiaotong University. Xi 'an Jiaotong University "Youth top talent support Plan", Shaanxi Province Sanqin talent introduction plan, assistant dean of National Innovation Platform (Center) for Industry-Education Integration of Energy Storage Technology. My research focuses on the controlled synthesis of nanocatalysts and their application in the field of electrocatalysis, such as CO₂RR, water splitting and electrosynthesis. So far, We have published nearly 40 SCI papers in JACS, Angew, AM, PNAS, EES and other journals, of which 22 are the first or corresponding authors, including JACS (2), Angew (5), AM（2）, EES, Nano Lett., ACS Catal., J. Catal. and et al.

Shenghua Chen (researchgate.net)

Address: National Innovation Platform (Center) for Industry-Education Integration of Energy Storage Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University

China West Science and Technology Innovation Port No. 1 mega-structure

Zip Code: 710049

Email: shenghchen@xjtu.edu.cn

Welcome undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students interested in the synthesis of nanomaterials and electrocatalysis to join us!

1. Yuantao Wei, Jianrui Zhang, Boyang Li, Fuqing Yu*, Mengyang Li, Yang Wang, Tianxi He, Jiexin Zhu, Shenghua Chen*, Yaqiong Su, Shujiang Ding, Chunhui Xiao*, Bao Yu Xia*, Self-Assembled Monolayer Interface with Reconstructed Hydrogen-Bond Network for Enhanced CO₂ Electroreduction. Adv. Mater. 2025, 202504515. (IF= 27.4)

2. Tailei Hou, Jiexin Zhu, Hongfei Gu, Xinyuan Li*, Yiqing Sun, Ze Hua, Ruiwen Shao, Cheng Chen, Botao Hu*, Liqiang Mai, Shenghua Chen*, Dingsheng Wang, and Jiatao Zhang*, Switching CO₂ Electroreduction toward C₂₊ Products and CH₄ by Regulate the Protonation and Dimerization in Platinum/Copper Catalysts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202424749. (IF= 16.6)
3. Shengjie Wei, Jiexin Zhu*, Xingbao Chen, Rongyan Yang, Kailong Gu, Lei Li*, Ching-Yu Chiang*, Liqiang Mai*, Shenghua Chen*, Planar chlorination engineering induced symmetry-broken single-atom site catalyst for enhanced CO₂ electroreduction. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 1652. (IF= 14.7)
4. Jingjing Liu, Jiarui Yang, Yuhai Dou, Xiangwen Liu*, Shenghua Chen*, Dingsheng Wang*, Deactivation Mechanism and Mitigation Strategies of Single-Atom Site Electrocatalysts. Adv. Mater. 2025, 202420383.(IF= 27.4)
5. Chenfeng Xia⁺, Xiu Wang⁺, Chaohui He, Ruijuan Qi, Deyu Zhu, Ruihu Lu, Fumin Li, Yu Chen, Shenghua Chen*, Bo You, Tao Yao, Wei Guo, Fei Song*, Ziyun Wang*, Bao Yu Xia*, Highly Selective Electrocatalytic CO₂ Conversion to Tailored Products through Precise Regulation of Hydrogenation and C‒C Coupling. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 20530−20538.(IF= 14.4)
6. Shenghua Chen⁺, Xiaobo Zheng⁺, Peng Zhu⁺, Yapeng Li, Zechao Zhuang, Hangjuan Wu, Jiexin Zhu, Chunhui Xiao, Mingzhao Chen*, Pingshan Wang, Dingsheng Wang*, Ya-Ling He*, Copper Atom Pairs Stabilize *OCCO Dipole Toward Highly Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to C₂H₄. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63(50), e202411591. (IF= 16.6)
7. Shenghua Chen, Chengliang Ye, Ziwei Wang, Peng Li, Wenjun Jiang, Zechao Zhuang,Jiexin Zhu, Xiaobo Zheng, Shahid Zaman, Honghui Ou, Lei Lv, Lin Tan,Yaqiong Su*, Jiang Ouyang*, Dingsheng Wang*, Selective CO₂ Reduction to Ethylene Mediated by Adaptive Small-molecule Engineering of Copper-based Electrocatalysts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202315621. (IF= 16.6)
8. Jiexin Zhu, Lei Lv, Shahid Zaman, Xingbao Chen, Yuhang Dai, Shenghua Chen*, Guanjie He, Dingsheng Wang*, Liqiang Mai*, Advances and Challenges in Single-Site Catalysts towards Electrochemical CO₂ Methanation. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 4812−4833. (IF= 32.5)
9. Runze Chen, Shenghua Chen*, Liqiang Wang*, and Dingsheng Wang*. Nanoscale Metal Particle Modified Single-Atom Catalyst:Synthesis, Characterization, and Application. Adv. Mater. 2023, 36(2), 2304713. (IF= 29.4)
10. Shenghua Chen⁺, Zedong Zhang⁺, Wenjun Jiang⁺, Shishi Zhang⁺, Jiexin Zhu, Liqiang Wang, Honghui Ou, Shahid Zaman, Lin Tan, Peng Zhu, Erhuan Zhang, Peng Jiang, Ya-Qiong Su*, Dingsheng Wang, Yadong Li*, Engineering Water Molecules Activation Center on Multi-site Electrocatalysts for Enhanced CO₂ Methanation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 12807−12815. (IF= 14.4)
11. Shenghua Chen⁺, Wen-Hao Li⁺, Wenjun Jiang⁺, Jiarui Yang⁺, Jiexin Zhu, Liqiang Wang, Honghui Ou, Zechao Zhuang, Mingzhao Chen, Xiaohui Sun, Dingsheng Wang*, Yadong Li, MOF Encapsulating N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Ligated Copper Single-Atom Site Catalyst towards Efficient Methane Electrosynthesis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202114450. (Hot paper, IF= 16.6)
12. Zedong Zhang⁺, Jiexin Zhu⁺, Shenghua Chen*, Wenming Sun*, Dingsheng Wang*, Liquid fluxional Ga single atom catalysts for efficient electrochemical CO₂ reduction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 62(3), e202215136. (IF= 16.6)

• Precision design of nano single-atom materials
• Research on interface regulation, mass transfer and mechanism of electrocatalytic reaction
• Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO₂RR), HER, OER and their development in devices
• Energy storage material design and device development