Lirong Zheng

Research interests

Publications

• Electrocatalytic upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate to commodity chemicals and H2 fuel

  Nature Communications · 2021 · 10.1038/s41467-021-25048-x

• Engineering unsymmetrically coordinated Cu-S1N3 single atom sites with enhanced oxygen reduction activity

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16848-8

• Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host–guest strategy

  Nature Chemistry · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0473-9

• High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics

  Nature Catalysis · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00525-6

• Boosting oxygen evolution of single-atomic ruthenium through electronic coupling with cobalt-iron layered double hydroxides

  Nature Communications · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09666-0

• MXene (Ti 3 C 2 ) Vacancy-Confined Single-Atom Catalyst for Efficient Functionalization of CO 2

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019 · 10.1021/jacs.8b13579

• Bismuth Single Atoms Resulting from Transformation of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Use as Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b08259

• Fe–N–C electrocatalyst with dense active sites and efficient mass transport for high-performance proton exchange membrane fuel cells

  Nature Catalysis · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0237-3

• A Single‐Atom Nanozyme for Wound Disinfection Applications

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2019 · 10.1002/anie.201813994

• Copper atom-pair catalyst anchored on alloy nanowires for selective and efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2

  Nature Chemistry · 2019 · 10.1038/s41557-018-0201-x

• Enhanced oxygen reduction with single-atomic-site iron catalysts for a zinc-air battery and hydrogen-air fuel cell

  Nature Communications · 2018 · 10.1038/s41467-018-07850-2

• Design of Single-Atom Co–N5 Catalytic Site: A Robust Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction with Nearly 100% CO Selectivity and Remarkable Stability

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b00814

• Direct observation of noble metal nanoparticles transforming to thermally stable single atoms

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2018 · 10.1038/s41565-018-0197-9

• Defect Effects on TiO 2 Nanosheets: Stabilizing Single Atomic Site Au and Promoting Catalytic Properties

  Advanced Materials · 2018 · 10.1002/adma.201705369

• Fe Isolated Single Atoms on S, N Codoped Carbon by Copolymer Pyrolysis Strategy for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

  Advanced Materials · 2018 · 10.1002/adma.201800588

• A Voltage‐Boosting Strategy Enabling a Low‐Frequency, Flexible Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Device

  Advanced Materials · 2018 · 10.1002/adma.201706343

• Doping-Enhanced Short-Range Order of Perovskite Nanocrystals for Near-Unity Violet Luminescence Quantum Yield

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018 · 10.1021/jacs.8b04763

• Uncoordinated Amine Groups of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Anchor Single Ru Sites as Chemoselective Catalysts toward the Hydrogenation of Quinoline

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 10.1021/jacs.7b01686

• Isolated Single Iron Atoms Anchored on N‐Doped Porous Carbon as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201702473

• Hollow N-Doped Carbon Spheres with Isolated Cobalt Single Atomic Sites: Superior Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 10.1021/jacs.7b10194

• Layered‐Double‐Hydroxide Nanosheets as Efficient Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalysts for Dinitrogen Fixation

  Advanced Materials · 2017 · 10.1002/adma.201703828

• Functionalized Nano-MoS2 with Peroxidase Catalytic and Near-Infrared Photothermal Activities for Safe and Synergetic Wound Antibacterial Applications

  ACS Nano · 2016 · 10.1021/acsnano.6b05810

• Homogeneously dispersed multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf1525

• Single Cobalt Atoms with Precise N‐Coordination as Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201604802

• Active Site Dependent Reaction Mechanism over Ru/CeO2 Catalyst toward CO2 Methanation

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2016 · 10.1021/jacs.6b02762

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