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2025

Electrochemical Correlative Microscopy: Discovering Insights Into Structure–reactivity Relationships for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
Wenzel, S.F.; García-Carrillo, R.; Ren, H.*
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2025, 50, 101666.
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Facet-Controlled Electrosynthesis of Nanoparticles by Combinatorial Screening in Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Lee, H.; Muñoz-Castañeda, J.A.; Ren, H.*
Nanoscale 2025, 17, 5141–5149.
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Dynamic Ionic Environment Modulation for Precise Electrosynthesis of Heterostructured Bimetallic Nanoparticles
Lee, H.; Zhan, X.; Warner, J.H.; Ren, H.*
Advanced Science 2025, 12.
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Physical and Nano-Electrochemistry: Editorial
Zhou, Y.; Ren, H.*
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2025, 50, 101645.
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Tuning the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity and Mechanism on Pt via Nano-Confinement of Interfacial Water
Tao, Y.; Lorenz-Ochoa, K.A.; Pan, L.; Al-Mualem, Z.A.; Baiz, C.R.; Ren, H.*
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 29977–29982.
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Tuning Hydrogen Bond Networks at Gold Electrodes: A Study of Potential-Dependent DMSO–Water Interfaces
Mondal, S.; Al-Mualem, Z.A.; Cardenas, A.E.; Hazarika, S.; Lee, H.; Ren, H.*; Baiz, C.R.
ACS Electrochemistry 2025, 1, 709–717.
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Stabilizing Copper Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction \Textitvia Encapsulation Inside Carbon Nanotubes
Gurusamy, T.; Pope, T.D.; Wenzel, S.F.; Zhang, H.; Lee, H.; Ren, H.*
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025, 10.1039.D5TA05291B.
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Defect-Driven Electrochemical Domain Modulation in Prussian Blue Revealed by Single-Entity Analysis
Zhang, H.; Tao, Y.; Pan, L.; Wang, Y.; Lee, H.; Zhan, X.; Ren, H.*
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025.
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Ternary Alloy Cu–Ru–Ir Nanocages for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction
D’Annunzio, N.; Gurusamy, T.; Lee, H.; Guo, H.; Clark, W.; Kristo, W.A.; Ren, H.*; Humphrey, S.M.
ACS Nano 2025, 19, 35551–35561.
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2024

Controlling Droplet Cell Environment in Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy (SECCM) via Migration and Electroosmotic Flow
Wenzel, S.F.; Lee, H.; Ren, H.*
Faraday Discussions 2024.
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Site-Specific Stochastic Rates and Energetics of Ag Nucleation on Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite
Mondaca-Medina, I.E.; Ren, H.*
ACS Nano 2024, 18, 32617–32624.
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Gas–Liquid–Solid Three-Phase Boundary in Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Ryu, C.H.; Mandal, D.; Ren, H.*
ACS Measurement Science Au 2024.
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High Throughput Exsolution Design of CO2 Reduction Reaction Interface in a Copper/High-Entropy Oxide Tandem Electrode
Bowman, W.; Xuan, S.; Gurusamy, T.; Wang, X.; Zheng, H.; Guo, H.; Vahidi, H.; Dupuy, A.; Clarke, L.; Schoenung, J.; Ong, S.P.; Ren, H.*
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Tuning Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction With Dynamic Control of Electrochemical Interfaces
Lee, H.; Ren, H.*
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 11126–11132.
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Simultaneous Mapping of Electrocatalytic Activity and Selectivity via Hybrid Scanning Electrochemical Probe Microscopy
Ryu, C.H.; Ren, H.*
Nano Letters 2024, 24, 6112–6116.
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Resistive Pulse Analysis of Chiral Amino Acids Utilizing Metal–amino Acid Crystallization Differences
Stringer, B.; Schmeltzer, A.; Ryu, C.H.; Ren, H.*; Luo, L.
Analyst 2024, 149, 3108–3114.
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Kinetics and Dynamics of Atomic-Layer Dissolution on Low-Defect Ag
Wang, Y.; Garcia-Carrillo, R.; Ren, H.*
Chemical Science 2024, 16, 1447–1454.
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Precision Delivery Using Nanopipette for Single-Cell Studies
Zhang, H.; Rahman, M.; Tao, Y.; Sampson, J.W.; Ren, H.*
Journal of Electrochemistry 2024, 30.
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2023

Interfacial Structure and Energy Determine the Heterogeneity in the Electrochemical Metal Dissolution Activity at Grain Boundary
Wang, Y.; Li, M.; Ren, H.*
Chemistry of Materials 2023, 35, 4243–4249.
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Precision Synthesis of Bimetallic Nanoparticles via Nanofluidics in Nanopipets
Lee, H.; Matthews, K.C.; Zhan, X.; Warner, J.H.; Ren, H.*
ACS Nano 2023, 17, 22499–22507.
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Nanoelectrochemistry in Electrochemical Phase Transition Reactions
Mondaca-Medina, E.; García-Carrillo, R.; Lee, H.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, H.; Ren, H.*
Chemical Science 2023, 14, 7611–7619.
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D-Band Holes React at the Tips of Gold Nanorods
Al-Zubeidi, A.; Wang, Y.; Lin, J.; Flatebo, C.; Landes, C.F.; Ren, H.*; Link, S.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2023, 14, 5297–5304.
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2022

Ir Drop in Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Blount, B.; Juarez, G.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*
Faraday Discussions 2022, 233, 149–162.
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Mapping the Kinetics of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Ag via Pseudo-Single-Crystal Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Wang, Y.; Li, M.; Gordon, E.; Ren, H.*
Chinese Journal of Catalysis 2022, 43, 3170–3176.
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Voltammetric Mapping of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Pt Locally via Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Wang, Y.; Li, M.; Ren, H.*
ACS Measurement Science Au 2022, 2, 304–308.
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Strain Tuned Efficient Heterostructure Photoelectrodes
Zheng, H.; Li, M.; Chen, J.; Quan, A.; Ye, K.; Ren, H.*; Hu, S.; Cao, Y.
Chinese Chemical Letters 2022, 33, 1450–1454.
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Heterogeneity Between and Within Single Hematite Nanorods as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Li, M.; Ye, K.; Qiu, W.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 5247–5252.
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Learning From the Heterogeneity at Electrochemical Interfaces
Ryu, C.H.; Lee, H.; Lee, H.; Ren, H.*
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022, 13, 7838–7846.
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Nanoscale Colocalized Electrochemical and Structural Mapping of Metal Dissolution Reaction
Wang, Y.; Li, M.; Gordon, E.; Ye, Z.; Ren, H.*
Analytical Chemistry 2022, 94, 9058–9064.
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Stochastic Local Breakdown of Oxide Film on Ni From Identical-Location Imaging: One Single Site at a Time
Li, M.; Wang, Y.; Blount, B.; Gordon, E.; Muñoz-Castañeda, J.A.; Ye, Z.; Ren, H.*
Nano Letters 2022, 22, 6313–6319.
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2021

Stochasticity in Single-Entity Electrochemistry
Ren, H.*; Edwards, M.A.
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2021, 25, 100632.
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Visualization and Quantification of Electrochemical H2 Bubble Nucleation at Pt, Au, and MoS2 Substrates
Liu, Y.; Jin, C.; Liu, Y.; Ruiz, K.H.; Ren, H.*; Fan, Y.; White, H.S.; Chen, Q.
ACS Sensors 2021, 6, 355–363.
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2020

Electrochemically Controlled Nucleation of Single CO2 Nanobubbles via Formate Oxidation at Pt Nanoelectrodes
Ren, H.*; Edwards, M.A.; Wang, Y.; White, H.S.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11, 1291–1296.
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Single-Entity Electrochemistry at Confined Sensing Interfaces
Ying, Y.; Wang, J.; Leach, A.R.; Jiang, Y.; Gao, R.; Xu, C.; Edwards, M.; Pendergast, A.D.; Ren, H.*; Weatherly Connor, K.T.; Wang, W.; Actis, P.; Mao, L.; White, H.S.; Long, Y.
SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry 2020, 63, 1674–7291.
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Substituent Effects in Iniferter Photopolymerization: Can Bond Homolysis Be Enhanced by Electronics?
Allegrezza, M.L.; De Alwis Watuthanthrige, N.; Wang, Y.; Garcia, G.A.; Ren, H.*; Konkolewicz, D.
Polymer Chemistry 2020, 11, 6129–6133.
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Electrochemically Induced Nucleation of a Nanoscopic Ionic Solid
Blount, B.; Kilner, K.; Hu, H.; Gohmann, D.; Gordon, E.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124, 17413–17417.
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Effect of Viscosity on the Collision Dynamics and Oxidation of Individual Ag Nanoparticles
Robinson, D.A.; Edwards, M.A.; Liu, Y.; Ren, H.*; White, H.S.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020.
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Mapping the Potential of Zero Charge and Electrocatalytic Activity of Metal–Electrolyte Interface via a Grain-by-Grain Approach
Wang, Y.; Gordon, E.; Ren, H.*
Analytical Chemistry 2020, 92, 2859–2865.
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2019

Mapping the Nucleation of H2 Bubbles on Polycrystalline Pt via Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy
Wang, Y.; Gordon, E.; Ren, H.*
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019, 10, 3887–3892.
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Gas Bubbles in Electrochemical Gas Evolution Reactions
Zhao, X.; Ren, H.*; Luo, L.
Langmuir 2019, 35, 5392–5408.
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