5)  Fe Loading Triggers High-Spin State: Expediting H2O/O2 Swap in Fuel Cell Cathodes. Hao Wan, Xiuxuan Hou, Si Chen, Zhechen Fan, Lin Lin, Yixuan Yin, Weiyi Zhao, Lina Hou, Huan Yan*, Ying Wang*, Junjie Ge*.

JACS, 2026, Accepted.

4) Atomically precise Ni clusters inducing active NiN₂ sites with uniform-large vacancies towards efficient CO₂-to-CO conversion. Guangyuan Xu^‡, Xingjie Peng^‡, Chuanqiang Wu^‡, Shibo Xi^‡, Huixin Xiang, Lei Feng, Zhendong Liu, Yi Duan, Lijin Gan, Si Chen, Yuan Kong, Yanzhe Ma, Fujing Nie, Jie Zhao, Xiao Hai, Wei Wei, Meng Zhou, Tianfu Wang*, Chuanhao Yao*, Wu Zhou, Huan Yan*

 Nat. Commun. 16, 3774 (2025). 

3)  Manipulating the Dynamic Proton Transport in Electrocatalysis at the Nanoscale. Lei Feng, Qin Liu*, Guangyuan Xu, Min Ge, Wentuan Bi, Yi Huang, Jing Zhang, Xiaoye Liu, Si Chen, Fujing Nie, Zhendong Liu, Zhang Cai, Yuan Kong*, Chengwei Wang, Junling Lu, Min Zhou, Huan Yan*

ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 4394–4402.

2) Investigation on heterogeneous Rh catalysts for the hydroformylation of 1,3-butadiene to adipic aldehyde.  Lijin Gan , Zekun Liu , Lei Feng , Yi Duan , Guangyuan Xu , Si Chen and Huan Yan* 

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2025, 15, 145-153. 

1) Investigating the Diversity of Coordination Environments around Pt Atoms. 

Qin Liu, Shibo Xi, Xinnan Peng, Lei Feng, Guangyuan Xu, Zhendong Liu, Yuan Kong, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Huan Yan*

ChemCatChem, 2023, 15, e202201157

Before USTC

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2. Yan et al. Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 3197.

3. Yan et al. Nature Communications, 2017, 8: 1070.

4. Yan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137 (33): 10484-10487.

5. Yan et al. ACS Catalysis, 2021, 11: 9370-9376.

6. Yan et al. Journal of Catalysis, 2018, 366: 70-79.

7. Yan et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6 (19): 8793-8814.

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