Selected Publications

2026

1. Kang, Xiaofeng; Jiang, Mingyu; Lv, Jiarong; Liao, Chen; Ding, Xue; Wang, Feng; Bai, Shengjie; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Nanoscale greenhouse effect for promoting solar-driven CO2 reduction with water to CH4, Nature Communications, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70960-9

2. Liu, Zhiwei; Lei, Dan; Han, Tao; Jiang, Zhongjian; Wang, Feng; Shen, Shaohua; Liu, Ya*, Which flow channel configuration is more suitable for scale-up of the CO2 reduction electrolyzer?, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2026, 266, 128861.

3. He, Guiwei; Jiao, Zihao; Yin, Yuting; Wang, Feng; Bai, Shengjie; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin, Interfacial Electron Localization by Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Efficient Photothermal CO2‐to‐Propionic Acid Conversion, Advanced Functional Materials, 2026, e74433.

4. Chen, Yi; Ye, Taiping; Qiu, Haoran; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Youhong*, Dual‐Layer Polymer Coating for Selective CO2 Reduction in Acidic Media, 2026, Advanced Functional Materials, 2026, e75294.

5. Lei, Dan; Ren, Yilong; He, Guiwei; Ma, Tengfei; Liao, Chen; Bai, Shengjie; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin, Adsorption-Enhanced Bismuth Oxide Efficiently Convert CO2 to Formate Over a Wide Potential Window, Small, 2026, 22(13), e12691.

6. Lv, Jiarong; Kang, Xiaofeng; Wang, Feng; Bai, Shengjie; Shen, Shaohua; Liu, Ya*, Thermoplasmonic Response of Non-Noble Metal Core-Shell Nanostructures for Solar Energy Harvesting, Carbon Neutralization, 2026, 5(2), e70124.

7. Zhen, Wenyu; Liu, Yiming; Zhang, Xiaohai; Bai, Shengjie*; Li, Aobing; Jiang, Kelun; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Chen, Yubin; Shen, Shaohua, Atomic-Level Engineering of Single-Atom Catalysts for Selective CC Coupling in CO2 Hydrogenation to Ethanol, Chemical Science, 2026.

8. Wang, Zhiqing; Wan, Fangyuan; Wang, Yifei; Bai, Shengjie; Cao, Bin; Wang, Feng*; Liu, Ya*, Near-infrared driven semiconductor-based photocatalysis for energy and environmental applications: mechanisms, materials, and devices, EES Catalysis, 2026.

2025

1. Yu, Fangbo; Ren, Yilong; Guo, Penghui; Huang, Fuxia; Bai, Shengjie; Wang, Feng; Ding, Xue; Jiao, Zihao; Liu, Ya*; Guo Liejin, Orderly Drawing Photo-Thermal Synergistic Electron Flow for Efficient CO2 Reduction under Natural Sunlight. Advanced Materials, 2025, e11097

2. Huang, Fuxia; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Cu-ZnS modulated multi-carbon coupling enables high selectivity photoreduction CO2 to CH3CH2COOH. Advanced Materials, 2025, 37, 7, 2416708.

3. Qiu, Haoran; Zeng, Lingchun; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Scalable Electrode Engineering Techniques for Achieving Highly Selective Ethanol Production Using Commercial Copper Catalysts. ACS Energy Letters, 2025, 10, 1, 263–272.

4. Kang, Xiaofeng; He, Zhizhong; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Decrypting the Controlled Product Selectivity over Tunable Ni-Co Bimetallic Alloy for Photoreduction CO2. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 35, 16, 2419802.

5. Liu, Ya; Chen, Boxu; Liu, Yifei; Ren, Yilong; Wang Jiayi; Qiu, Haoran; Chen, Yubin; Shi, Jinwen; Wang, Feng, Photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction to formic acid using as cuprous oxide-based photocathodes. Fuel, 2025, 387, 134168.

6. Liu, Ya; Ye, Taiping; Liu, Yifei; Zhang, Xiaohai; Jiang, Linhong; Wang, Feng; Bai, Shengjie; Shen, Shaohua, Matching electrochemical CO2 reduction with fluctuating photovoltaic power under natural illumination. EES Solar, 2025, 1, 279-286.

7. Ding, Xue; Zeng, Lingchun; Qiu, Haoran; Jing, Wenhao; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Reduced Graphene Oxide Regulates Indium Oxide In-Situ Reconstruction for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction. ACS Materials Letters, 2025, 7, 3, 796–803.

8. Ding, Xue; Jing, Wenhao; He, Guiwei; Jiang, Zhongjian; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Optimizing photothermal CO2 reduction through integrated band-division utilization and thermal management structure. Nano Research, 2025, 18, 94907157.

9. Ding, Xue; Jing, Wenhao; Bai, Shengjie; Kang, Xiaofeng; Yu, Fangbo; Ma, Tengfei; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Infrared light promotes reverse hydrogen spillover for boosting photoconversion of CO2 to CH4 on Bi/BVOv, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 523, 168447.

10. Liao, Chen; Wang, Mengyu; Kang, Xiaofeng; Lei, Dan; Ma, Tengfei; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin, Tunable Oxygen Vacancies Enable Dynamic Infrared Response for Efficient CO2 Reduction on Plasmonic BiOx, ChemSusChem, 2025, 18, e202501050.

11. Huang, Fuxia; Liu, Yifei; Wang, Feng; Liu, Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*. Crystal defects engineering of BiOI elevated photocatalytic CO2 to C2 conversion performance. Science China Materials, 2025, 68, 1561-1569.

2024

1. Chen, Junmei; Qiu, Haoran; Zhao, Yilin; Yang, Haozhou; Fan, Lei; Liu, Zhihe; Xi, ShiBo; Zheng, Guangtai; Chen, Jiayi; Chen, Lei; Liu, Ya; Guo, Liejin; Wang Lei*, Selective and stable CO2 electroreduction at high rates via control of local H2O/CO2 ratio. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 5893.

2. Liao, Chen; He, Zhizhong; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Anti-Site Defect-Induced Cascaded Sub-Band Transition in CuInS2 Enables Infrared Light-Driven CO2 Reduction. ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 52, 35480–35489.

3. Ma, Tengfei; Jiao, Zihao; Qiu, Haoran; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Stabilized High-Valent Indium for Promoted Formate Production from Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 2408977.

4. Chen, Yi; Ma, Tengfei; Wang, Feng; Liu Ya*, Effect of Pressure on the Gas Diffusion Electrodes during CO2 Reduction Reaction.Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024, 63, 35, 15546–15553.

5. Jing, Wenhao; He, Guiwei; Bai, Shengjie; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Density Functional Theory-Guided Synthesis of Cu-N-TiO2 for Overall Water Splitting by Breaking the Scaling Relationship. ACS Materials Letters, 2024, 6, 1347–1355.

6. Ma, Tengfei; Jiao, Zihao; Qiu, Haoran; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Synergistic effect of oxygen species and vacancy for enhanced electrochemical CO2 conversion to formate on indium oxide. eScience, 2024, 100246.

7. Huang, Fuxia; Jiao, Zihao; Wang, Feng; Liu, Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, The synergy of low S-vacancy and Cu sites in Cu-In4SnS8 promotes the favorable conversion of CO2 to ethanol with full selectivity. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 495, 153560.

8. Ding, Xue; Jing, Wenhao; Yin, Yuting; He, Guiwei; Bai, Shengjie; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Multi-species defect engineering synergistic localized surface plasmon resonance boosting photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 499, 1, 156091.

9. Ma, Tengfei; Qiu, Haoran; Jing, Wenhao; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Optimized contact in membrane electrode assembly for multicarbon product generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024, 12, 15343-15351.

10. Jing, Wenhao; Jiao, Zihao; Song, Mengmeng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, An active learning workflow for predicting hydrogen atom adsorption energies on binary oxides based on local electronic transfer features. Green Energy & Environment, 2024, 9, 1489-1496.

11. Liao, Chen; Zhou, Hongwei; Zhang Shunxin; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Copper Vacancy and LSPR-Activated MXene Synergistically Enabling Selective Photoreduction CO2 to Acetate. ChemSusChem, 2024,e202301927.

12. Wang, Feng; Zhang Shunxin; Jing, Wenhao; Qiu, Haoran; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Double Z-scheme in SnO2/SnS2/Cu2SnS3 heterojunction for photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to ethanol. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2024, 189, 1, 146-154. (高被引)

13. Wang, Feng; Jing, Wenhao; Bai, Shengjie; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Enhanced formate production from sulfur modified copper for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Energy, 2024, 133817.

14. Jiao, Zihao Jiao; Liu, Ya*; Wang Ziyun*, Application of graph neural network in computational heterogeneous catalysis. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2024, 161, 171001.

15. Chen, Boxu; Feng, Manshuo; Chen, Yi; Yang, Jirui; Liu, Ya*, Performing electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions at a high pressure. Carbon Neutrality, 2024, 3(1), 31.

2023

1. Bai, Shengjie; Jing, Wenhao; He, Guiwei; Liao, Chen; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Near-Infrared-Responsive Photocatalytic CO2 Conversion via In Situ Generated Co3O4/Cu2O. ACS nano, 2023, 17, 10976-10986.

2. Bai, Shengjie; Song, Mengmeng; Ma, Tengfei; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin*, On factors of ions in seawater for CO2 reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023,323, 122166.

3. Jiao, Zihao; Song, Mengmeng; Jing, Wenhao; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Unraveling the Selectivity and Synergistic Mechanism of Cu-Based Alloys for CO2 Reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 6009-6017.

4. Wang, Feng; Huang, Fuxia; Yu, Fangbo; Kang, Xiaofeng; Wang, Qingxia; Liu, Ya*, Metal-sulfide photocatalysts for solar-fuel generation across the solar spectrum. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023, 4, 101450.

5. Song, Mengmeng; Jiao, Zihao; Jing, Wenhao; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, How *CO spill-over affects C–C coupling on amorphous Cu for converting CO2 to multi-carbon products.Journal of Catalysis, 2023,115170.

6. Qiu, Haoran; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Improved product selectivity of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide by tuning local carbon dioxide concentration with multiphysics models. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023, 21, 3045.

7. Yin, Yuting; Jing, Wenhao; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin*, Electro-reduced copper on polymeric C3N4 for photocatalytic reduction of CO2.Carbon, 2023, 214, 118317.

8. Liao, Chen; Jing, Wenhao; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*, 3D In2S3/C/Fe3C nanofibers for Z-scheme photocatalytic CO2 conversion to acetate. Materials Today Catalysis, 2023,100030.

9. Yin,Yuting; Jing, Wenhao; Qiu, Haoran; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Full-Spectrum Utilization of Solar Energy on Simultaneous CO2 Photoreduction and Seawater Desalination. EES. Catal., 2023, 1, 755-764.

10. Jiao, Zihao; Song, Mengmeng; Liu, Ya*; Guo, Liejin*, Effect of model flexibility on the behavior of supercritical water in molecular dynamics simulation. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023, 382, 121997.

2022

1. Li, Jingang; Kollipara, Pavana Siddhartha; Liu, Ya; Yao, Kan; Liu, Yaoran; Zheng, Yuebing*, Opto-Thermocapillary Nanomotors on Solid Substrates. ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 6, 8820–8826.

2. Liu, Ya; Wang, Feng; Jiao, Zihao; Qiu, Haoran; Bai, Shengjie; Guo, Liejin*, Photochemical Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Production. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2022, 5(3), 5.

3. Bai, Shengjie; Qiu, Haoran; Song, Mengmeng; He, Guiwei; Wang, Feng; Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin*, Porous fixed-bed photoreactor for boosting C–C coupling in photocatalytic CO2 reduction. eScience, 2022, 2(4), 428-437.

4. Song, Mengmeng; Jiao, Zihao; Jing, Wenhao; Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin*, Revealing the Nature of C–C Coupling Sites on a Cu Surface for CO2 Reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, 13(20), 4434-4440.

5. Liu, Ya*; Bai, Shengjie; Wang, Feng; Chen Yubin, Photoelectrochemical technology for solar fuel generation, from single photoelectrodes to unassisted cells: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022, 20, 1169–1192.

6. Liu, Ya*; Yu, Fangbo; Wang, Feng; Bai, Shengjie; He, Guiwei, Construction of Z-scheme In2S3-TiO2 for CO2 reduction under concentrated natural sunlight. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, 2022, 41(1), 2201034-2201039.

7. Song, Mengmeng; Zhu, Shixing; Jiao, Zihao; Ou, Zhisong; Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin*, Search for the superiority of supercritical water with ab initio molecular dynamics simulation. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022,365, 120140.

8. Guo, Liejin†*; Ou, Zhisong†; Liu, Ya†(equal contribution); Ge, Zhiwei;† Jin, Hui; Ou, Guobiao; Song, Mengmeng; Jiao, Zihao; Jing, Wenhao,Technological innovations on direct carbon mitigation by ordered energy conversion and full resource utilization.Carbon Neutrality, 2022, 1, 4.

Before 2021

1. Liu, Ya; Qiu, Haoran; Li, Jinghan; Guo, Liejin*; Ager, Joel. W.*, Tandem Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Efficient Intermediate Conversion over Pyramid-Textured Cu–Ag Catalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 40513-40521.

2. Xu, Xiaojie; Zhou, Xufeng; Wang, Tianyu; Shi, Xiang; Liu, Ya; Zuo, Yong; Xu, Limin; Wang, Mengying; Hu, Xiaofeng; Yang, Xinju; Chen, Jiaxin; Yang, Xiubo; Chen, Lin; Chen, Peining; Peng, Huisheng*, Robust DNA-Bridged Memristor for Textile Chips. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(31), 12762-12768.

3. Chen, Yubin; Feng, Xiaoyang; Liu, Ya; Guan, Xiangjiu; Burda, Clemens*; Guo, Liejin*, Metal Oxide-Based Tandem Cells for Self-Biased Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ACS Energy Letters, 2020, 5, 3, 844–866. 

4. Chen, Yubin†; Liu, Ya†(equal contribution); Wang, Feng; Guan, Xiangjiu; Guo, Liejin*, Toward practical photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction using earth-abundant materials. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2021, 61, 469-488.

5. Liu, Ya*, Guo, Liejin, On factors limiting the performance of photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020, 152, 100901.

6. Liu, Xu; Cao, Xiangkun E.; Liu, Ya*; Li, Xiaobing; Wang, Meng; Li, Mingtao*, Branched multiphase TiO2 with enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting activity. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2018, 43, 21365-21373.

7. Liu, Ya; Guo, Youhong; Schelhas, Laura T.; Li, Mingtao*; Ager, Joel W.*, Undoped and Ni-Doped CoOx Surface Modification of Porous BiVO4 Photoelectrodes for Water Oxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120, 23449-23457.

8. Liu, Ya; Zhao, Liang; Su, Jinzhan; Li, Mingtao*; Guo, Liejin, Fabrication and Properties of a Branched (NH4)xWO3 Nanowire Array Film and a Porous WO3 Nanorod Array Film. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 3532-3538.

9. Liu, Ya; Zhao, Liang; Li, Mingtao*; Guo, Liejin, TiO2/CdSe core–shell nanofiber film for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 7397-7404.

10. Liu, Ya; Jiang, Jiangang; Xu, Quan; Li, Mingtao*; Guo, Liejin, Photoelectrochemical performance of CdS nanorods grafted vertically aligned TiO2 nanorods. Materials Research Bulletin, 2013, 48, 4548-4554.