(Full list of publications at Google Scholar)

1. Catalysis [CO2 reduction and others]

• 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 10.1038/s41565-025-02059-z (2025)
• 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)
• Yun Song, Ruquan Ye* Microenvironment engineering for electroreduction of CO2 to methanol in strong acids Nature Nanotechnology in press (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)
• 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 (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)
• 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)
• Yinger Xin, Charles B Musgrave III, Jianjun Su*, Jiangtong Li, Pei Xiong, Molly Meng-Jung Li*, Yun Song, Qianfeng Gu, Qiang Zhang, Yong Liu, Weihua Guo, Le Cheng, Xuefeng Tan, Qiu Jiang, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang*, William A Goddard III*, Ruquan Ye* Subtle Modifications in Interface Configurations of Iron/Cobalt Phthalocyanine-Based Electrocatalysts Determine Molecular CO2 Reduction Activities Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (8) e202420286 (2025)
• Qianfeng Gu#; Yinger Xin#; Mingzi Sun; Hexiang Zhang; Anchun Tang; Yanwei Zhao; Zihao Chen; Yun Song; Tuoya Naren; Lei Zhang; Jinghang Wu; Xin Wang; Fangyuan Kang; Yang Yang Li; Fu-Rong Chen; Chubin Wan; Bolong Huang*; Ruquan Ye*; Qichun Zhang* Cascaded Metalation of Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks for Boosting Electrochemical CO Reduction Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (22) e202505461 (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)
• Yun Song, Peng Guo, Tinghao Ma, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Hanchen Shen, Xing Feng, Dengtao Yang, Jia Tian*, Sai Kishore Ravi, Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Ultrathin, Cationic Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction to Methanol Advanced Materials 36 (17), 2310037 (2024)
• Geng Li, Libei Huang, Chengpeng Wei, Hanchen Shen, Yong Liu, Qiang Zhang, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Weihua Guo, Xiaohu Cao, Ben Zhong Tang, Marc Robert, Ruquan Ye* Backbone engineering of polymeric catalysts for high-performance CO2 reduction in bipolar membrane zero-gap electrolyzer Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (15) e202400414 (2024)
• Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Jun-Jie Zhang,* Haikun Wu, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, He Zhu, Qi Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qiyuan He, Man-Kit Tse, Deng-tao Yang, Boris I. Yakobson,* Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Ruquan Ye* Direct synthesis of ammonia from nitrate on amorphous graphene with near 100% efficiency Advanced Materials 2211856 (2023)
• Wenbin Wang, Yun Song, Chengxuan Ke, Chen Ma, Zongxiao Wu, Junlei Qi, Kai Bao, Lingzhi Wang, Jingkun Wu, Yang Li, Yong Liu, Chun-Sing Lee, Ye Chen, Guangfu Luo,* Qiyuan He*, Ruquan Ye* Filling the Gap between Heteroatom Doping and Edge Enrichment of 2D Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution ACS Nano 17 (2) 1287-1297 (2023)
• Yun Song, Jun-jie Zhang, Yubing Dou, Zhaohua Zhu, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Xiaohu Cao, Le Cheng, Zonglong Zhu, Zhenhua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhong, Dengtao Yang*, Zhaoyu Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Boris I. Yakobson*, Ruquan Ye* Atomically Thin, Ionic-Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Stable, High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction Advanced Materials 2110496 (2022)
• Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Binghao Zhang, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Feijun Hu, He Zhu, Zhaoyu Wang, Tingting Zheng, Deng-tao Yang, Chi-Kit Siu, Qi Liu, Yang Ren, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang and Ruquan Ye* Steering the Topological Defects in Amorphous Laser-Induced Graphene for Direct Nitrate-to-Ammonia Electroreduction ACS Catalysis 12 (19), 11639-11650 (2022).
• Weihua Guo, Yuefeng Zhang, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Xiaohu Cao, Yubing Dou, Yangbo Ma, Chenyan Ma, He Zhu, Tingting Zheng, Zhaoyu Wang, Hao Li, Zhanxi Fan, Qi Liu, Zhiyuan Zeng,* Juncai Dong, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Transient solid-state laser activation of indium for high-performance reduction of CO2 to formate Small 18 (24), 2201311 (2022)
• 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)
• Y. Song, J.-J. Zhang, Z. Zhu, X. Chen, L. Huang, J. Su, Z. Xu, T. H. Ly, C.-S. Lee, B. I. Yakobson, B. Z. Tang, R. Ye* Zwitterionic ultrathin 2D covalent organic polymers for high-performance electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction Appl. Catal. B., 119750 (2020)
• 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)
• L. Huang, J. Su, Y. Song, R. Ye*. Laser-induced graphene: En route to smart sensing. Nano-Micro Letters 12:157 (2020).
• M. Zhu, J. Chen, L. Huang, R. Ye*, J. Xu, Y. Han. Covalently grafting cobalt porphyrin on carbon nanotube for efficient CO2 electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 6595-6599 (2019)
• Z. Wang, P. Zhang, H. Liu, Z. Zhao, L. Xiong, W. He, R. T. K. Kwok, J. W. Y. Lam, R. Ye*, B. Z. Tang*. Robust serum albumin-responsive AIEgen enables latent bloodstain visualization in high resolution and reliability for crime scene investigation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, 17306-17312 (2019)
• M. Zhu,#R. Ye,# K. Jin, N. Lazouski, K. Manthiram. Elucidating Reactivity and Mechanism of CO2 Electroreduction at Highly Dispersed Cobalt Phthalocyanine. ACS Energy Letters 3, 1381-1386 (2018)
• R. Ye, R. MendozaCruz, Y. Li, M. J. Yacaman, B. I. Yakobson, J. M. Tour. Manganese deception on graphene. Carbon, 132, 623-631 (2018)
• R. Ye, P. D. A. Vicente, J. Arellano-Jimenez, Z. Peng, T. Wang, Y. Li, M. J. Yacaman, J. M. Tour. High-performance hydrogen evolution from MoS2(1-x)Px solid solution. Advanced Materials 28, 1427-1432 (2015)

2. Graphene and related

• Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Jun-Jie Zhang,* Haikun Wu, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, He Zhu, Qi Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qiyuan He, Man-Kit Tse, Deng-tao Yang, Boris I. Yakobson,* Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Ruquan Ye* Direct synthesis of ammonia from nitrate on amorphous graphene with near 100% efficiency Advanced Materials 2211856 (2023)
• Libei Huang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yun Song, Jianjun Su, Le Cheng, Weihua Guo, Ganggang Zhao, Hanchen Shen, Zheng Yan,* Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Ultrasensitive, fast-responsive, directional airflow sensing by bioinspired suspended graphene fibers Nano Letters 23 (2) 597-605 (2023)
• Xingcan Huang#, Hu Li#, Jiyu Li#, Libei Huang#, Kuanming Yao, Chun Ki Yiu, Yiming Liu, Tsz Hung Wong, Dengfeng Li, Mengge Wu, Ya Huang, Zhan Gao, Jingkun Zhou, Yuyu Gao, Jian Li, Yanli Jiao, Rui Shi, Binbin Zhang, Bofan Hu, Qinglei Guo, Enming Song*, Ruquan Ye*, Xinge Yu* Transient, Implantable, Ultrathin Biofuel Cells Enabled by Laser-Induced Graphene and Gold Nanoparticles Composite Nano Letters 22 (8), 3447-3456 (2022)
• L. Huang#, M. Gu#, Z. Wang, T. W. Tang, Z. Zhu, Y. Yuan, D. Wang, C. Shen*, B. Z. Tang*, R. Ye* Highly efficient and rapid inactivation of coronavirus on non-metal hydrophobic laser-induced graphene in mild conditions Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 2101195 (2021)
• L. Huang, S. Xu, Z. Wang, K. Xue, J. Su, Y. Song, S. Chen, C.Zhu*, B. Z. Tang*, R. Ye* Self-Reporting and Photothermal Enhanced Rapid Bacterial Killing on Laser-Induced Graphene Mask ACS Nano 14, 12045-12053 (2020)
• L. Huang, L. Ling, J. Su, Y. Song, Z. Wang, P. Westerhoff, R. Ye* Laser-engineered graphene on wood enables efficient antibacterial, anti-salt-fouling and lipophilic-matter-rejection solar evaporation ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 51864-51872 (2020)
• R. Ye,* D. James, J. M. Tour*. Laser-induced graphene: from Discovery to translation. Advanced Materials 31, 1803621 (2019)
• R. Ye, D. James, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene. Accounts of Chemical Research 51, 1609-1620 (2018)
• R. Ye*, J. M. Tour* Graphene at fifteen. ACS Nano, 13, 10872-10878 (2019)
• R. Ye, Y. Chyan, J. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Han, C. Kittrell, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene formation on wood. Advanced Materials 29, (2017)
• R. Ye, X. Han, D. Kosynkin, Y. Li, C. Zhang, B. Jiang, A. A. Marti, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced conversion of Teflon into fluorinated nanodiamonds or fluorinated Graphene. ACS Nano 12, 1083-1088 (2018)
• Y. Chyan,# R. Ye,# Y. Li, S. Singh, C. Arnusch, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene by multiple lasing: towards electronics on cloth, paper and food. ACS Nano, 12, 2176-2183 (2018)
• R. Ye, Z. Peng, A. Metzger, J. Lin, J. A. Mann, K. Huang, C. Xiang, X. Fan, E.L.G. Samuel, L. B. Alemany, A. A. Martí, J. M. Tour. Bandgap engineering of coal-derived graphene quantum dots. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 7041-7048 (2015)
• R. Ye, Z. Peng, T. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Zhang, L. G. Nilewski, J. Lin, J. M. Tour. In situ formation of metal oxide nanocrystals embedded in laser-induced graphene. ACS Nano 9, 9244-9251 (2015)
• R. Ye, C. Xiang, J. Lin, Z. Peng, K. Huang, Z. Yan, N. P. Cook, E. L.G. Samuel, C. Hwang, G. Ruan, G. Ceriotti, A. O. Raji, A. A. Martí, J. M. Tour. Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots. Nature Communications 6 (2013)