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Y. Yuan, S. Garg and J.G. Chen*, “Reactor engineering for Converting CO₂ to solid carbon”, Nature Chemical Engineering, 3 (2026) 82.

Y. Yuan, T. Mou, S. Hwang, W.N. Porter, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “Controlling Reaction Pathways of Ethylene Hydroformylation using Isolated Bimetallic Rhodium-Cobalt Sites”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 47 (2025) 12185.

Z. Xie, E. Huang, K.K. Turaczy, S. Garg, S. Hwang, P.R. Kasala, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “Biogas sequestration to carbon nanofibers via tandem catalytic strategies”, Nature Chemical Engineering, 2 (2025) 118.

X. Han, T. Mou, S. Kang, A. Islam, X. Zhao, K. Sasaki, J.A. Rodriguez, Q. Chang*, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “Enhancing Acidic Oxygen Evolution Activity by Controlling Oxidation State of Iridium”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64 (2025) e202507468.

Q. Wang, S.-F. Hung, K. Lao, X. Huang, F. Li, H.B. Tao*, H.B. Yang, W. Liu, W. Wang, L. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Cheng, Y. Liu, J. Chen, Y. Xu, C. Su, J.G. Chen* and B. Liu*, “Breaking the linear-scaling limit in multi-electron-transfer catalysis through intermediate spillover”, Nature Catalysis, 8 (2025) 378.

W. Zhang, B. Yang, B.A. Jackson, J. Zhao, H. Shi, D.M. Camaioni, S. Kim, H. Wang, J. Szanyi, M. Lee, J.G. Chen and J.A. Lercher*, “Integrated low-temperature PVC and polyolefin upgrading”, Science, 390 (2025) 88.

S. Garg, Z, Xie* and J.G. Chen*, “Tandem Reactors and Reactions for CO₂ Conversion”, Nature Chemical Engineering, 1 (2024) 139.

Z. Xie, E. Huang, S. Garg, S. Hwang, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “CO₂ fixation into carbon nanofibers using electrochemical-thermochemical tandem catalysis”, Nature Catalysis, 7 (2024) 98.

X. Han, T. Mou, A. Islam, S. Kang, Q. Chang, Z. Xie, X. Zhao, K. Sasaki, J.A. Rodriguez, P. Liu*, and J.G. Chen*, “Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Verification of IrOx Supported on Titanium Nitride for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (2024) 16499.

Y. Yuan, E. Huang, S. Hwang, P. Liu and J.G. Chen*, “Converting Carbon Dioxide into Carbon Nanotubes by Reacting with Ethane”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (2024) e202404047.

L. Jiang, K. Li*, W.N. Porter, H. Wang, G. Li* and J.G. Chen*, “Role of H₂O in catalytic conversion of C1 molecules”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (2024) 2857.

A.N. Biswas, L.R. Winter, Z. Xie and J.G. Chen*, “Utilizing CO₂ as a Reactant for C₃ Oxygenate Production via Tandem Reactions”, JACS Au, 3 (2023) 293.

P. Zhai, Z. Xie, E. Huang, D.R. Aireddy, H. Yu, D.A. Cullen, P. Liu*, J.G. Chen* and K. Ding*, “CO₂-Mediated Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane Enabled by Pt-Based Bimetallic Catalysts”, Chem, 9 (2023) 3268.

Q. Chang, Y. Liu, J.-H. Lee, D. Ologunagba, S. Hwang, Z. Xie, S. Kattel*, J.H. Lee* and J.G. Chen*, “Metal-coordinated Phthalocyanines as Platform Molecules for Understanding Isolated Metal Sites in Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144 (2022) 16131.

A.N. Biswas, Z. Xie, R. Xia, S. Overa, F. Jiao* and J.G. Chen*, “Tandem Electrocatalytic-Thermocatalytic Reaction Scheme for CO₂ Conversion to C₃ Oxygenates”, ACS Energy Letters, 7 (2022) 2904.

I. Ro, J. Qi, S. Lee, M. Xu, X. Yan, Z. Xie, G. Zakem, A. Morales, J.G. Chen, X. Pan, D.G. Vlachos, S. Caratzoulas and P. Christopher*, “Bifunctional hydroformylation on heterogeneous Rh-WO_x pair site catalysts”, Nature, 609 (2022) 287.

Z. Xie, X. Wang, X. Chen, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “General Descriptors for CO₂-Assisted Selective C-H/C-C Bond Scission in Ethane”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114 (2022) 4186.

A.N. Biswas, L.R. Winter, B. Loenders, Z. Xie, A. Bogaerts* and J.G. Chen*, “Oxygenate Production from Plasma-Activated Reaction of CO₂ and Ethane”, ACS Energy Letters, 7 (2022) 236.

L.R. Winter and J.G. Chen*, “N₂ Fixation by Plasma-Activated Processes”, Joule, 5 (2021) 300.

D. Wang, Z. Xie, M.D. Porosoff* and J.G. Chen*, “Recent advances in carbon dioxide hydrogenation to produce olefins and aromatics”, Chem, 7 (2021) 2277.

R.M. Bullock*, J.G. Chen*, L. Gagliardi*, P.J. Chirik, O.K. Farha, C.H. Hendon, C.W. Jones, J.A. Keith, J. Klosin, S. D. Minteer, R.H. Morris, A.T. Radosevich, T.B. Rauchfuss, N.A. Strotman, A. Vojvodic, T.R. Ward, J.Y. Yang, and Y. Surendranath*, “Using nature’s blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals”, Science, 369 (2020) 786.

Y. Liu, D. Tian, A.N. Biswas, Z. Xie, S. Hwang, J.H. Lee, H. Meng and J.G. Chen*, “Transition Metal Nitrides as Promising Catalyst Supports for Tuning CO/H₂ Syngas Production from Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (2020) 11345.

Z. Xie, Y. Xu, M. Xie, X. Chen, J.H. Lee, E. Stavitski, S. Kattel and J.G. Chen*, “Reactions of CO₂ and Ethane Enable CO Bond Insertion for Production of C3 Oxygenates”, Nature Communications, 11 (2020) 1887.

Q. He, D. Liu, J.H. Lee, Y. Liu, Z. Xie, S. Hwang, S. Kattel*, L. Song*, and J.G. Chen*, “Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to Syngas with Controllable CO/H₂ Ratios over Co and Ni Single-Atom Catalysts”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (2020) 3033.

E. Gomez, X. Nie, J.H. Lee, Z. Xie and J.G. Chen*, “Tandem reactions of CO₂ reduction and ethane aromatization”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (2019) 17771.

J.H. Lee, S. Kattel, Z. Jiang, Z. Xie, S. Yao, B.M. Tackett, W. Xu, N.S. Marinkovic, and J.G. Chen*, “Tuning the Activity and Selectivity of Electroreduction of CO₂ to Synthesis Gas using Bimetallic Catalysts”, Nature Communications, 10 (2019) 3724.

B.M. Tackett, E. Gomez and J.G. Chen*, “Net reduction of CO₂ via its thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic transformation reactions in standard and hybrid processes”, Nature Catalysis, 2 (2019) 381.

J. Wang, S. Kattel, C.J. Hawxhurst, J.H. Lee, B.M. Tackett, K. Chang, N. Rui, C.-J. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “Enhancing Activity and Reducing Cost for Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ by Supporting Palladium on Metal Carbides”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (2019) 6271.

E. Gomez, B. Yan, S. Kattel and J.G. Chen*, “Carbon dioxide reduction in tandem with light alkane dehydrogenation”, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 3 (2019) 638.

W. Wan, S.C. Ammal, Z. Lin, K.-E. You, A. Heyden* and J.G. Chen*, “Controlling reaction pathways of selective C-O bond cleavage of glycerol”, Nature Communications, 9 (2018) 4612.

B. Yan, S. Yao, S. Kattel, Q. Wu, Z. Xie, E. Gomez, P. Liu, D. Su and J.G. Chen*, “Active sites for tandem reactions of CO₂ reduction and ethane dehydrogenation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States, 115 (2018) 8278.

E. Gomez, S. Kattel, B. Yan, S. Yao, P. Liu* and J.G. Chen*, “Combining CO₂ Reduction with Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation over Bimetallic Catalysts”, Nature Communications, 9 (2018) 1398.

J.G. Chen*, R.M. Crooks*, L.C. Seefeldt*, K.L. Bren, R.M. Bullock, M.Y. Darensbourg, P.L. Holland, B. Hoffman, M.J. Janik, A.K. Jones, M.G. Kanatzidis, P. King, K.M. Lancaster, S.V. Lymar, P. Pfromm, W.F. Schneider, R.R. Schrock, “Beyond Fossil-Fuel-Driven Nitrogen Transformations”, Science, 360 (2018) 873.