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• Yun Song#, Charles B. Musgrave III#, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Xing Feng, Can Liao, Shunjie Liu, Ryan Tsz Kin Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Mingming He, Kai Shen Choong, Zhenxing Feng, Ben Zhong Tang*, William A. Goddard III*, Ruquan Ye* Efficient CO2-to-Methanol Electrocatalysis in Acidic Media via Microenvironment-Tuned Cobalt Phthalocyanine Nature Nanotechnology 21, 78-86 (2026)
• Yun Song, Ruquan Ye* Microenvironment engineering for electroreduction of CO2 to methanol in strong acids Nature Nanotechnology 21, 19-20 (2026)
• Weihua Guo, Libei Huang, Zihao Li, Ma Qian*, James M. Tour*, Ruquan Ye* Laser-assisted materials synthesis at the atomic and nanoscale Nature Synthesis 4, 1488-1503 (2025)
• Qiang Zhang,# Charles B. Musgrave III,# Yun Song, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Geng Li, Yong Liu, Yinger Xin, Ge Ye, Hanchen Shen, Xue Wang, Ben Zhong Tang,* William A. Goddard III,* Ruquan Ye* A covalent molecular design enabling efficient CO2 reduction in strong acids Nature Synthesis 3, 1231-1242 (2024)
• Zhaoyong Jin , Tianrong Han, Mingzi Sun , Kun Qi*, Xinren Chen, Yilong Dong, Dongxu Jiao, Shuai Ding, Lin Liu, Jinchang Fan, Lei Zhang, Zikang Li, Tong Wu, Ruquan Ye, Damien Voiry, Xuyang Zhou*, Bolong Huang*, Xiaoqiang Cui* Nanoconfined Supersaturated Reactors for Efficient CO2-to-Ethanol Electroreduction Nature Catalysis 9, 965-975 (2026)
• Jianjun Su,# Charles B Musgrave III,# Yun Song, Libei Huang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Pei Xiong, Molly Meng-Jung Li, Haoran Wu, Minghui Zhu, Hao Ming Chen, Jianyu Zhang, Hanchen Shen, Ben Zhong Tang, Marc Robert, William A Goddard III,* Ruquan Ye* Strain Enhances the Activity of Molecular Electrocatalysts via Carbon Nanotube Supports, Nature Catalysis 6, 818 (2023).
• Junlai Yu#, Libei Huang#, Qingxuan Tang, Shang-Bo Yu, Qiao-Yan Qi, Jiangshan Zhang, Danying Ma, Yifei Lei, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Jean-Charles Eloi, Robert L Harniman, Ufuk Borucu, Long Zhang, Minghui Zhu, Feng Tian, Lili Du*, David Lee Phillips*, Ian Manners, Ruquan Ye*, Jia Tian* Artificial spherical chromatophore nanomicelle for selective CO2 reduction in water Nature Catalysis 6, 464-475 (2023)
• J. Tian, Y. Zhang, L. Du, Y. He, X. Jin, S. Pearce, J.-C. Eloi, R. L. Harniman, D. Alibhai, R. Ye, D. L. Phillips, I. Manners* Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibers for visible-light driven hydrogen production, Nature Chemistry 12, 1150-1156 (2020)
• Zihao Li, Chunki Yiu, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Le Cheng, Hao Hu, Jianju Su, Yun Song, Mingming He, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Ge Ye, Xinge Yu*, Ruquan Ye* Decoupling multiphysics interference for precise, real-time piezoresistive airflow sensing Science Advances 12 (37) eaee6204 (2026)
• Qiang Zhang#, Soonho Kwon#, Tanglue Feng, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Yinger Xin, Geng Li, Yong Liu, Honglu Hu, Mingming He, Rui Xue, Ruixuan Wang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Ben Zhong Tang, William A. Goddard III* and Ruquan Ye* Cationic carbon nanotubes as conductive matrix for high-performance CO2 reduction in strong acids Nature Communications 17, 8395 (2026)
• Yun Song†, Zhaohua Zhu†, Tridip Das†, Aarya D Riasati, Jianjun Su, Weihua Guo, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Mingming He, Ruixuan Wang, Rui Xue, Shenlong Zhao, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang, Marc Robert, Xin Wang, William A. Goddard III, Ruquan Ye* Electrochemically mediated disproportionation for selective polyoxymethylene upcycling in acid Nature Communications 17, 4120 (2026)
• Le Cheng, Chi Shun Yeung, Libei Huang, Ge Ye, Jie Yan, Wanpeng Li, Chunki Yiu, Fu-Rong Chen, Hanchen Shen, Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Xinge Yu,* Ruquan Ye* Flash Healing of Laser-induced Graphene Nature Communications 15, 2925 (2024)
• Weihua Guo, Siwei Zhang, Junjie Zhang, Haoran Wu, Yangbo Ma, Yun Song, Le Cheng, Liang Chang, Geng Li, Yong Liu, Guodan Wei, Lin Gan, Minghui Zhu*, Shibo Xi*, Xue Wang, Boris I. Yakobson*, Ben Zhong Tang,* Ruquan Ye* Accelerating multielectron reduction at CuxO nanograins interfaces with controlled local electric field Nature Communications 14: 7383 (2023)
• Jianjun Su#, Yun Song#, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Weihua Guo, Ruquan Ye* Heterogeneous Molecular Catalysts for Multi-Electron Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Materials Today 90, 375-384 (2025)
• Charles B. Musgrave III,# Jianjun Su,# Pei Xiong, Yun Song, Libei Huang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Qiang Zhang, Yinger Xin, Molly Meng-Jung Li, Ryan Tsz Kin Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, William A. Goddard III* Ruquan Ye* Molecular Strain Accelerates Electron Transfer for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (4), 3786-3795 (2025)
• Weihua Guo#, Xingyu Wang#, Yangbo Ma#, Yun Song, Liang Chang, Haoran Wu, Geng Li, Zihao Li, Yinger Xin, Mingming He, Jixun Zhang, Tao Yang, Minghui Zhu, Hanchen Shen, Shibo Xi, Xue Wang, Lin Gan, Qiu Jiang, Chuan Xia, Shenlong Zhao, Zhengxiao Guo*, Ziyun Wang*, Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Local coordination-dependent CO2 reduction activity of bimetallic Cu-Al catalysts for selective ethylene/ethanol electrosynthesis Angewandte Chemie International Edition e20291 (2025)
• Geng Li, Chengyi Zhang, Yong Liu, Yun Song, Weihua Guo, Libei Huang, Jianjun Su, Qiang Zhang, Yinger Xin, Tanglue Feng, Xiaohu Cao, Mingming He, Tsz Kin Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zhong Jin, Ben Zhong Tang, Ziyun Wang,* Ruquan Ye* Molecular Engineering of Poly(ionic liquid) for Direct and Continuous Production of Pure Formic Acid from Flue Gas Advanced Materials 36 (47) 2409390 (2024)
• J. Su, J.-J. Zhang, J. Chen, Y. Song, L. Huang, M. Zhu*, B. I. Yakobson, B. Z. Tang, R. Ye* Building a stable cationic molecule/electrode interface for highly efficient and durable CO2 reduction Energy & Environmental Science, 14, 483 (2021)