School of Science and Engineering

Selected Publications (* Corresponding author, † Equal contributions)

1. Ning He, Zhi Yuan, Chao Wu, Shibo Xi, Jingjing Xiong, Yucong Huang, Guanwu Lian, Zefan Du, Laihao Liu, Kai Yang, Dawei Wu, Zhongxin Chen*, Wenguang Tu*, Shuk-Yin Tong*, Efficient Nitrate to Ammonia Conversion on Bifuunctional IrCu4 Alloy Nanoparticles, ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 4684-4693.

2. Jianhua Wu†, Zhongxin Chen†, Ke Yang†, Xin Zhou†, Rongrong Zhang, Huizhi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Mengyao Su, Tie Wang, Qikun Hu, Ning Yan, Cuibo Liu, Bin Zhang, Ming Yang*, Shibo Xi*, Kian Ping Loh*, Electric Bias-induced Reversible Configuration of Single and Bi-atom Hetero-Catalysts on 1T'-MoS2, Nature Nanotechnology, 2025, accepted;

3. Ning He, Shengqiang Wu, Wensong Yu, Fangrun Jin, Wenjun Xie, Xinxin Lu, Xiaoxu Zhao, Zhongxin Chen*, Wenguang Tu*, S.Y. Tong*, Unveiling Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity in PtCo Bimetallic Solid Solutions through Controlled Crystal Strain, Science China Materials, 2025, 68, 180-188.

4. Yucong Huang, Jingjing Xiong*, Zhigang Zou, Zhongxin Chen*, Emerging Strategies for the Synthesis of Correlated Single Atom Catalysts, Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2312182;

5. Laihao Liu, Tiankai Chen*, Zhongxin Chen*, Understanding the Dynamic Aggregation in Single Atom Catalysis, Advanced Science, 2024, 12, 2308046;

6. Qikun Hu†, Ke Yang†, Ouwen Peng†, Minzhang Li, Lu Ma, Songpeng Huang, Yonghua Du, Zong-Xiang Xu, Qing Wang, Zhongxin Chen*, Ming Yang*, Kian Ping Loh*, Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrate Using a Ruthenium-Copper Cocatalyst System: A Full Concentration Range Study, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 668-676;

7. Junchuan Sun†, Guanwu Lian†, Zhongxin Chen*, Zhigang Zou, Lu Wang*, Merger of Single-Atom Catalysis and Photothermal Catalysis for Future Chemical Production, ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 34572-34595;

8. Zhongxin Chen, Jia Liu, Kian Ping Loh*, Engineering Single Atom Catalysts for Flow Production: From Catalyst Design to Reactor Understandings, Accounts of Materials Research, 2023, 4, 27-41;

9. Ren Zou†, Zhongxin Chen†, Linxin Zhong, Wu Yang, Tingzhen Li, Jianyun Gan, Yunyi Yang, Zehong Chen, Haihong Lai, Xuehui Li, Chuanfu Liu, Shimelis Admassie, Emmanuel I. Iwuoha, Jun Lu*, Xinwen Peng*, Nanocellulose-Assisted Molecularly Engineering of Nitrogen Deficient Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Selective Biomass Photo-Oxidation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2301311;

10. Zhongxin Chen†, Jingting Song†, Rongrong Zhang†, Runlai Li, Qikun Hu, Pingping Wei, Shibo Xi, Xin Zhou, Phuc T. T. Nguyen, Hai M. Duong, Poh Seng Lee, Xiaoxu Zhao, Ming Joo Koh, Ning Yan, Kian Ping Loh*, Addressing the Quantitative Conversion Bottleneck in Single-Atom Catalysis, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 2807;

11. Ouwen Peng†, Qikun Hu†, Xin Zhou†, Rongrong Zhang, Yonghua Du, Minzhang Li, Lu Ma, Shibo Xi, Wei Fu, Zongxiang Xu, Chun Cheng*, Zhongxin Chen*, Kian Ping Loh*, Swinging Hydrogen Evolution to Nitrate Reduction Activity in Molybdenum Carbide by Ruthenium Doping, ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 15045-15055;

12. Jingting Song†, Zhongxin Chen†, Xiangbin Cai†, Xin Zhou, Gaolei Zhan, Runlai Li, Pingping Wei, Ning Yan, Shibo Xi*, Kian Ping Loh*, Promoting Dinuclear-Type Catalysis in Cu1-C3N4 Single Atom Catalyst, Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2204638;

13. Xinzhe Li†, Na Guo†, Zhongxin Chen†, Xin Zhou†, Xiaoxu Zhao, Yonghua Du, Lu Ma, Yiyun Fang, Haomin Xu, Huimin Yang, Wei Yu, Shangchen Lu, Mingjiao Tian, Qian He, Kian Ping Loh, Shibo Xi*, Chun Zhang*, Jiong Lu*, Atomically Precise Single Metal Oxide Cluster Catalyst with Oxygen-Controlled Activity, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 2200933;

14. Zhongxin Chen, Jia Liu, Ming Joo Koh, Kian Ping Loh*, Single Atom Catalysis: From Simple Reactions to the Synthesis of Complicated Molecules, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2103882;

15. Zhongxin Chen†, Jingting Song†, Xinwen Peng*, Shibo Xi, Jia Liu, Wenhui Zhou, Runlai Li, Rile Ge, Cuibo Liu, Haisen Xu, Xiaoxu Zhao, Haohan Li, Xin Zhou, Lu Wang, Xing Li, Linxin Zhong, Alexandre I. Rykov, Junhu Wang, Ming Joo Koh, Kian Ping Loh*, Iron Single Atom Catalysed Quinoline Synthesis, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2101382;

16. Zhongxin Chen†, Cuibo Liu†, Jia Liu†, Jing Li, Shibo Xi, Xiao Chi, Haisen Xu, In-Hyeok Park, Xinwen Peng, Xing Li, Wei Yu, Xiaowang Liu, Linxin Zhong, Kai Leng, Wei Huang, Ming Joo Koh*, Kian Ping Loh*, Cobalt Single Atoms-Intercalated Molybdenum Disulfide for Sulfide Oxidation with Exceptional Chemoselectivity, Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 1906437;

17. Zhongxin Chen†, Cuibo Liu†, Xiaoxu Zhao†, Huan Yan, Jing Li, Pin Lyu, Yonghua Du, Shibo Xi, Kai Chi, Xiao Chi, Haisen Xu, Xing Li, Wei Fu, Kai Leng, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shuai Wang*, Kian Ping Loh*, Promoted glycerol oxidation reaction in an interface-confined hierarchically structured catalyst, Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1804763;

18. Cuibo Liu†, Zhongxin Chen†, Huan Yan†, Shibo Xi†, Kah Meng Yam, Jiajian Gao, Jing Li, Xiaoxu Zhao, Yonghua Du, Haisen Xu, Xing Li, Kai Leng, Stephen J. Pennycook, Bin Liu, Chun Zhang, Ming Joo Koh*, Kian Ping Loh*, Expedient synthesis of E-hydrazone esters and 1H-indazole medicinal scaffolds through heterogeneous single-atom platinum catalysis, Science Advances, 2019, 5, eaay1537;

19. Xinwen Peng†,*, Lei Zhang†, Zhongxin Chen†, Linxin Zhong, Dengke Zhao, Xiao Chi, Xiaoxu Zhao, Ligui Li*, Xihong Lu, Kai Leng, Cuibo Liu, Wei Liu, Wei Tang, Kian Ping Loh*, Hierachically porous carbon plate derived from wood as bifunctional ORR/OER electrodes, Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1900341;

20. Cuibo Liu†, Zhongxin Chen†, Chenliang Su*, Xiaoxu Zhao, Qiang Gao, Guo-Hong Ning, Hai Zhu, Wei Tang, Kai Leng, Wei Fu, Bingbing Tian, Xinwen Peng, Jing Li, Qing-Hua Xu, Wu Zhou, Kian Ping Loh*, Controllable Deuteration of Halogenated Compounds by Photocatalytic D2O Splitting, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 80;

21. Lei Dong†, Zhongxin Chen†, Xiaoxu Zhao, Jianhua Ma, Shan Lin, Mengxiong Li, Yang Bao, Leiqiang Chu, Kai Leng, Hongbin Lu*, Kian Ping Loh*, A Non-Dispersion Strategy for Large-Scale Production of Ultra-High Concentration Graphene Slurries in Water, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 76;

22. Zhongxin Chen†, Kai Leng†, Xiaoxu Zhao, Souradip Malkhandi, Wei Tang, Bingbing Tian, Lei Dong, Lirong Zheng, Ming Lin, Boon Siang Yeo, Kian Ping Loh*, Interface Confined Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Zero Valent Metal Nanoparticles-Intercalated Molybdenum Disulfide, Nature Communications, 2017, 8, 14548;

23. Wei Tang†, Zhongxin Chen†, Bingbing Tian†, Hyun-Wook Lee*, Xiaoxu Zhao, Xiaofeng Fan, Yanchen Fan, Kai Leng, Chengxin Peng, Min-Ho Kim, Meng Li, Ming Lin, Jie Su, Jianyi Chen, Hu Young Jeong, Xuesong Yin, Qianfan Zhang, Wu Zhou, Kian Ping Loh*, Guangyuan Wesley Zheng*, In-Situ Observation and Electrochemical Study of Encapsulated Sulfur Nanoparticles by MoS2 Flakes, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 10133-10141;