21.   "......"

        Jinwen Yin #, Jing Wang #, Mingzi Sun #, Yajie Yang #, Jia Lyu #, Lei Wang, Xinglong Dong, Chenliang Ye, Haibo Bao,          Jun Guo, Bo Chen, Xichen Zhou, Li Zhai, Zijian Li, Zhen He, Qinxin Luo, Yangbo Ma, Jingwen Zhou, Pengyi Lu,                    Yunhao Wang, Wenxin Niu, Zijian Zheng, Yu Han, Daliang Zhang, Shibo Xi, Ye Yuan*, Bolong Huang*, Peng Guo*                & Zhanxi Fan*

        Nat. Commun. 2024, In revision. View

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20.   "Constructing molecule-metal relay catalysis over heterophase metallene for high-performance rechargeable zinc-                 nitrate/ethanol batteries"

        Jingwen Zhou #, Yuecheng Xiong #, Mingzi Sun #, Zhihang Xu #, Yunhao Wang #, Pengyi Lu, Fu Liu, Fengkun Hao,            Tianyi Feng, Yangbo Ma, Jinwen Yin, Chenliang Ye, Biao Chen, Shibo Xi*, Ye Zhu*, Bolong Huang* & Zhanxi Fan* 

        PNAS 120, e2311149120 (2023). View   PDF   CityU Research Stories   Highlighted by Chinese Science Bulletin

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19.  "Atomic coordination environment engineering of bimetallic alloy nanostructures for efficient ammonia electrosynthesis          from nitrate"

        Yunhao Wang #, Mingzi Sun #, Jingwen Zhou #, Yuecheng Xiong #, Qinghua Zhang, Chenliang Ye, Xixi Wang, Pengyi          Lu, Tianyi Feng, Fengkun Hao, Fu Liu, Juan Wang, Yangbo Ma, Jinwen Yin, Shengqi Chu*, Lin Gu*, Bolong Huang*              & Zhanxi Fan* 

        PNAS 120, e2306461120 (2023). View   PDF   CityU Research Stories   CityU R&I

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18.  "Acidic conditions for efficient carbon dioxide electroreduction in flow and MEA cells"

Jinli Yu #, Juan Xiao #, Yangbo Ma, Jingwen Zhou, Pengyi Lu, Kun Wang, Yan Yan, Jie Zeng, Yi Wang*, Shuqin Song* & Zhanxi Fan*

Chem Catal. 3, 100670 (2023). View   PDF

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17.  "Enhancing the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to multi-carbon products on copper nanosheet arrays via            cation-catalyst interaction"

        Jinli Yu #, Mingzi Sun #, Juan Wang #, Yunhao Wang #, Yang Li #, Pengyi Lu, Yangbo Ma, Jingwen Zhou, Wenze                  Chen, Xichen Zhou, Chun-Sing Lee, Bolong Huang* & Zhanxi Fan* 

        Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 4, 101366 (2023). View   2023 Cell Press China Paper of the Year Award

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16.   "Boosting the reaction kinetics in aprotic lithium-carbon dioxide batteries with unconventional phase metal                             nanomaterials"

        Jingwen Zhou #, Tianshuai Wang #, Lin Chen #, Lingwen Liao #, Yunhao Wang, Shibo Xi, Bo Chen, Ting Lin,                        Qinghua Zhang, Chenliang Ye, Xichen Zhou, Zhiqiang Guan, Li Zhai, Zhen He, Gang Wang, Juan Wang, Jinli Yu,                  Yangbo Ma, Pengyi Lu, Yuecheng Xiong, Shiyao Lu, Ye Chen, Bin Wang, Chun-Sing Lee, Jianli Cheng*, Lin Gu*,                  Tianshou Zhao* & Zhanxi Fan* 

        PNAS 119, e2204666119 (2022). View   PDF   CityU Research Stories   CityU R&I   Suitong Science

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15.   "Interfacial electric field effect on electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction"

        Jinli Yu, Jinwen Yin, Ruchun Li, Yangbo Ma & Zhanxi Fan* 

        Chem Catal. 2, 2229–2252 (2022). View   PDF

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14.  "Electrochemical lithium extraction from aqueous sources"

       Yuecheng Xiong #, Jingwen Zhou #, Pengyi Lu, Jinwen Yin, Yunhao Wang & Zhanxi Fan* 

       Matter 5, 1760–1791 (2022). View   PDF

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13.   "Surface modification of metal materials for high-performance electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction"

        Yangbo Ma #, Juan Wang #, Jinli Yu, Jingwen Zhou, Xichen Zhou, Huangxu Li, Zhen He, Huiwu Long, Yunhao Wang,            Pengyi Lu, Jinwen Yin, Hongyan Sun, Zhicheng Zhang & Zhanxi Fan* 

        Matter 4, 888–926 (2021). View   PDF

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12.  "Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods"

       Zhanxi Fan, Michel Bosman, Zhiqi Huang, Ye Chen, Chongyi Ling, Lin Wu, Yuriy A. Akimov, Robert Laskowski, Bo               Chen, Peter Ercius, Jian Zhang, Xiaoying Qi, Min Hao Goh, Yiyao Ge, Zhicheng Zhang, Wenxin Niu, Jinlan Wang,               Haimei Zheng* & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Commun. 11, 3293 (2020). View   Nature Spotlight

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11.   "Phase engineering of nanomaterials"

        Ye Chen #, Zhuangchai Lai #, Xiao Zhang #, Zhanxi Fan #, Qiyuan He #, Chaoliang Tan & Hua Zhang*

        Nat. Rev. Chem. 4, 243–256 (2020). View 

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10.  "Facile synthesis of gold nanomaterials with unusual crystal structures"

       Zhanxi Fan, Xiao Huang, Ye Chen, Wei Huang & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Protoc. 12, 2367–2376 (2017). View

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09.  "Stabilization of 4H hexagonal phase in gold nanoribbons"

       Zhanxi Fan, Michel Bosman, Xiao Huang, Ding Huang, Yi Yu, Khuong P Ong, Yuriy A Akimov, Lin Wu, Bing                           Li, Jumiati Wu, Ying Huang, Qing Liu, Ching Eng Png, Chee Lip Gan, Peidong Yang* & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Commun. 6, 7684 (2015). View

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08.  "Surface modification-induced phase transformation of hexagonal close-packed gold square sheets"

       Zhanxi Fan, Xiao Huang, Yu Han, Michel Bosman, Qingxiao Wang, Yihan Zhu, Qing Liu, Bing Li, Zhiyuan Zeng,                    Jumiati Wu, Wenxiong Shi, Shuzhou Li, Chee Lip Gan & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Commun. 6, 6571 (2015). View

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07.  "Rapid Production of Kilogram-Scale Graphene Nanoribbons with Tunable Interlayer Spacing for an Array of              Renewable Energy"

Fan Liu, Yi Hu, Zehua Qu, Xin Ma, Zaifeng Li, Rui Zhu, Yan Yan*, Bihan Wen, Qianwen Ma, Minjie Liu, Shuang Zhao, Zhanxi Fan, Jie Zeng, Mingkai Liu*, Zhong Jin* & Zhiqun Lin*

PNAS 120, e2303262120 (2023). View

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06.  "Evoking ordered vacancies in metallic nanostructures toward a vacated Barlow packing for high-performance                        hydrogen evolution"

        Zhicheng Zhang, Guigao Liu, Xiaoya Cui, Yue Gong, Ding Yi, Qinghua Zhang, Chongzhi Zhu, Faisal Saleem, Bo                  Chen, Zhuangchai Lai, Qinbai Yun, Hongfei Cheng, Zhiqi Huang, Yongwu Peng, Zhanxi Fan, Bing Li, Wenrui Dai, Wei          Chen, Yonghua Du, Lu Ma, Cheng-Jun Sun, Inhui Hwang, Shuangming Chen, Li Song, Feng Ding*, Lin Gu*, Yihan              Zhu* & Hua Zhang*

        Sci. Adv. 7, eabd6647 (2021). View

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05.  "Thermal effect and Rayleigh instability of ultrathin 4H hexagonal gold nanoribbons"

       Peifeng Li, Ying Han, Xiao Zhou, Zhanxi Fan, Shang Xu, Ke Cao, Fanling Meng, Libo Gao, Jun Song*, Hua Zhang* &           Yang Lu*

       Matter 2, 658–665 (2020). View

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04.  "Unusual 4H-phase twinned noble metal nanokites"

       Wenxin Niu, Jiawei Liu, Jingtao Huang, Bo Chen, Qiyuan He, An-Liang Wang, Qipeng Lu, Ye Chen, Qinbai Yun, Jie              Wang, Cuiling Li, Ying Huang, Zhuangchai Lai, Zhanxi Fan, Xue-Jun Wu & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Commun. 10, 2881 (2019). View

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03.  "Crystal phase-based epitaxial growth of hybrid noble metal nanostructures on 4H/fcc Au nanowires"

       Qipeng Lu, An-Liang Wang, Yue Gong, Wei Hao, Hongfei Cheng, Junze Chen, Bing Li, Nailiang Yang, Wenxin Niu, Jie          Wang, Yifu Yu, Xiao Zhang, Ye Chen, Zhanxi Fan, Xue-Jun Wu, Jinping Chen, Jun Luo, Shuzhou Li, Lin Gu* & Hua              Zhang*

       Nat. Chem. 10, 456–461 (2018). View 

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02.  "Hierarchical Ni-Mo-S nanosheets on carbon fiber cloth: a flexible electrode for efficient hydrogen generation

       in neutral electrolyte"

       Jianwei Miao, Fang-Xing Xiao, Hong Bin Yang, Si Yun Khoo, Jiazang Chen, Zhanxi Fan, Ying-Ya Hsu, Hao Ming Chen,          Hua Zhang* & Bin Liu*

       Sci. Adv. 1, e1500259 (2015). View

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01.  "Solution-phase epitaxial growth of noble metal nanostructures on dispersible single-layer molybdenum

       disulfide nanosheets"

       Xiao Huang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Shuyu Bao, Mengfei Wang, Xiaoying Qi, Zhanxi Fan & Hua Zhang*

       Nat. Commun. 4, 1444 (2013). View​

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