Publications
† equal contribution. ∗ corresponding author. 55 entries.
2026

O2 Reduction Stimulates Adatom Generation on Cu(111) Catalyzing Hydrogen Evolution
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 148, 7401--7414, 2026

Ammonia Catalyst Evolution Under Reactor Conditions Revealed by Environmental and Multimodal Electron Microscopy
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00433, 2026

CO2 Electroreduction on Borated Copper Surfaces: Boron Active Sites, not Copper
ACS Catalysis, 2026
Accepted in ACS Catalysis; preprint available on ChemRxiv

Dopant-dependent boron arrangement and chemistry of metal boride surface
ACS Catalysis, 16, 1729--1737, 2026
2025

Off-equilibrium reactivity of boron-enriched metal diboride surfaces in electroreduction conditions
ACS Catalysis, 15, 12340--12350, 2025

Amine Structure Governs Corrosion Rates of Copper Catalysts in Electrochemical Reactive Capture of CO2
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129, 16009--16019, 2025

Non-equilibrium restructurings in catalysis: A chemical space odyssey
MRS Communications, 15, 1--13, 2025

Unlocking Switchable Reactivity of MBene via Asymmetric Surface Adsorption
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16, 12619--12624, 2025

Role of surface hydroxyls in atomic-scale copper restructuring during CO electroreduction
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 45178--45188, 2025

AlphaNet: scaling up local-frame-based neural network interatomic potentials
npj Computational Materials, 11, 332, 2025

Structure Sensitivity and Catalyst Restructuring for CO2 Electro-reduction on Copper
Nature Communications, 16, 4064, 2025

Size-dependent effects of Ge addition on the coking and sintering tendency of PtnGem/alumina (n= 4, 7, 11) model catalysts
Journal of Catalysis, 448, 116196, 2025

Reorganizing the Pt surface water structure for highly efficient alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 12162--12169, 2025

GOCIA: a grand canonical global optimizer for clusters, interfaces, and adsorbates
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27, 696--706, 2025
Prior to Stanford2024

Cu-Supported ZnO under Conditions of CO2 Reduction to Methanol: Why 0.2 ML Coverage?
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15, 11745--11752, 2024

Synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional N-heterocyclic carbene lattices
Science, 384, 895-901, 2024

H and CO Co-Induced Cu Adatom Formation in CO2 Electroreduction Conditions
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 16119--16127, 2024

Platinum Surface Water Orientation Dictates Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Kinetics in Alkaline Media
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 9623--9630, 2024

Coverage-Induced Cation Dehydration and Migration for Enhanced CO--CO Coupling on Cu Electrocatalysts
ACS Catalysis, 14, 3596--3605, 2024

Modeling Interfacial Dynamics on Single Atom Electrocatalysts: Explicit Solvation and Potential Dependence
Accounts of Chemical Research, 57, 198--207, 2024
2023

Tracking Active Phase Behavior on Boron Nitride during the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane Using Operando X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 25686--25694, 2023

Kinetic pathways of fast lithium transport in solid electrolyte interphases with discrete inorganic components
Energy \& Environmental Science, 16, 5904--5915, 2023

Off-stoichiometric Restructuring and Sliding Dynamics of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Edges in Conditions of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 17265-17273, 2023

Engineering Single-Atom Electrocatalysts for Enhancing Kinetics of Acidic Volmer Reaction
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 13038-13047, 2023

Amorphous nickel hydroxide shell tailors local chemical environment on platinum surface for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction
Nature Materials, 22, 1022-1029, 2023
Dispersed Nickel Phthalocyanine Molecules on Carbon Nanotubes as Cathode Catalysts for Li-CO2 Batteries
Small, accepted, 2023

Restructuring and Activation of Cu (111) under Electrocatalytic Reduction Conditions
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 135, e202218575, 2023

Hydrogen Evolution on FTO-Supported Ptn Clusters: Ensemble of Hydride States Governs the Size Dependent Reactivity
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 135, e202218210, 2023

Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture and Concentration
Chemical Reviews, 123, 8069-8098, 2023

Got Coke? Self-Limiting Poisoning Makes an Ultra Stable and Selective Sub-Nano Cluster Catalyst
ACS Catalysis, 13, 1533--1544, 2023
2022

Molecular Catalyst with Near 100\% Selectivity for CO2 Reduction in Acidic Electrolytes
Advanced Energy Materials, 13, 2203603, 2022

Graphite-supported Pt n Cluster Electrocatalysts: Major Change of Active Sites as a Function of the Applied Potential
ACS Catalysis, 12, 14517--14526, 2022

The role of alkali metal cations and platinum-surface hydroxyl in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction
Nature Catalysis, 5, 923--933, 2022

Hydrogen-Induced Restructuring of a Cu(100) Electrode in Electroreduction Conditions
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 19284--19293, 2022

Molecular design of redox carriers for electrochemical CO 2 capture and concentration
Chemical Society Reviews, 51, 8415--8433, 2022

Inverse molecular design of alkoxides and phenoxides for aqueous direct air capture of CO2
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2123496119, 2022

Fluxionality of Subnano Clusters Reshapes the Activity Volcano of Electrocatalysis
ChemCatChem, 14, e202200345, 2022

Modeling the Potential-Dependent Kinetics of CO2 Electroreduction on Single-Nickel Atom Catalysts with Explicit Solvation
ACS Catalysis, 12, 11380--11390, 2022

Ensemble representation of catalytic interfaces: soloists, orchestras, and everything in-between
Chemical science, 13, 8003--8016, 2022

Potential-dependent free energy relationship in interpreting the electrochemical performance of CO2 reduction on single atom catalysts
ACS Catalysis, 12, 6606--6617, 2022

Pseudo-adsorption and long-range redox coupling during oxygen reduction reaction on single atom electrocatalyst
Nature communications, 13, 1734, 2022

Theory-driven design of electrocatalysts for the two-electron oxygen reduction reaction based on dispersed metal phthalocyanines
CCS Chemistry, 4, 228--236, 2022
2021

Molecular design of dispersed nickel phthalocyanine@ nanocarbon hybrid catalyst for active and stable electroreduction of CO2
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 13836--13849, 2021
2020

Molecular engineering of dispersed nickel phthalocyanines on carbon nanotubes for selective CO2 reduction
Nature Energy, 5, 684--692, 2020

Ensembles of metastable states govern heterogeneous catalysis on dynamic interfaces
Accounts of chemical research, 53, 447--458, 2020
Hydrogen evolution on restructured B-rich WB: metastable surface states and isolated active sites
ACS Catalysis, 10, 13867--13877, 2020
Investigating Surface and Gas-Phase Chemistries during the Boron Nitride-Catalyzed Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, 2020

Why boron nitride is such a selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 16527--16535, 2020
2019
Dynamic Phase Diagram of Catalytic Surface of Hexagonal Boron Nitride in Conditions of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 257, 2019
Phthalocyanine precursors to construct atomically dispersed iron electrocatalysts
ACS Catalysis, 9, 6252--6261, 2019
Comparison of TiO 2 and gC 3 N 4 2D/2D nanocomposites from three synthesis protocols for visible-light induced hydrogen evolution
Catalysis Science \& Technology, 9, 75--85, 2019
2018

Dynamic phase diagram of catalytic surface of hexagonal boron nitride under conditions of oxidative dehydrogenation of propane
The journal of physical chemistry letters, 10, 20--25, 2018
Nickel bis (dithiolene) complexes for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: A computational study
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 864, 143--147, 2018
Covalently bonded 2D/2D Og-C3N4/TiO2 heterojunction for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 237, 1130--1138, 2018
2017

Highly selective and active CO2 reduction electrocatalysts based on cobalt phthalocyanine/carbon nanotube hybrid structures
Nature communications, 8, 14675, 2017