Chenglong Wang, Hexing Yang, Shengzhou Xu & Dan Ren*.Size-Dependent Cation Effect on Intermediate Binding and Water Network as Revealed by Raman Spectroscopy in Acidic Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide.ACS Catal. 16, Accepted (2026).

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. 16 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).

Jing Gao^#,*, Jun Li^#, Yuhang Liu^#, Meng Xia, Y. Zou Finfrock, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren* & Michael Grätzel*. Solar Reduction of Carbon Dioxide on Copper-tin Electrocatalysts with Energy Conversion Efficiency near 20%. Nat. Commun. 13, 5898 (2022).