Rentao Mu

7.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
103 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Rentao Mu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Rentao Mu has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Materials Chemistry, 48 papers in Catalysis and 35 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Rentao Mu's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (77 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (32 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers). Rentao Mu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (77 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (32 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers). Rentao Mu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Rentao Mu's co-authors include Jinlong Gong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Qiang Fu, Xinhe Bao, Sai Chen, Guodong Sun, Liang Zeng, Chunlei Pei, Rongtan Li and Dali Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Rentao Mu

100 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Breaking the scaling relationship via thermally stable Pt/Cu single atom alloys for catalytic dehydrogenation

2018 640 citations Guodong Sun, Zhi‐Jian Zhao et al. profile →
FeO₆ Octahedral Distortion Activates Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Methane Partial Oxidation Coupled with CO₂ Splitting

2020 300 citations Xianhua Zhang, Chunlei Pei et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Overturning CO₂ Hydrogenation Selectivity with High Activity via Reaction-Induced Strong Metal–Support Interactions

2022 293 citations Le Lin, Rongtan Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Confinement-Induced Indium Oxide Nanolayers Formed on Oxide Support for Enhanced CO₂ Hydrogenation Reaction

2024 90 citations Jianyang Wang, Rongtan Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Rentao Mu	4.6k	3.0k	2.3k	889	798	103	6.1k
Mi Peng	4.4k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	847 1.1×	81	6.2k
Adam S. Hoffman	4.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	825 0.9×	487 0.6×	115	5.1k
Peter P. Wells	3.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	541 0.6×	730 0.9×	91	5.2k
Daniel Curulla‐Ferré	3.6k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	506 0.6×	292 0.4×	90	5.1k
Jaime Evans	5.5k 1.2×	3.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	315 0.4×	459 0.6×	37	6.5k
Stefan Zander	3.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	713 0.8×	375 0.5×	29	4.2k
Samy Ould‐Chikh	3.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	902 1.0×	854 1.1×	81	4.8k
Jian Lin	4.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	527 0.6×	720 0.9×	116	6.3k
Michael Felderhoff	6.2k 1.3×	3.4k 1.1×	646 0.3×	925 1.0×	616 0.8×	124	7.2k
Andrew DeLaRiva	6.0k 1.3×	3.2k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	422 0.5×	917 1.1×	32	7.1k

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Jia, Haoran, Xiaohui Feng, Xiangze Du, et al.. (2025). Balancing CO ₂ Adsorption and H ₂ Activation on Confined ZnO _x Species for CO ₂ Hydrogenation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(25). e202503319–e202503319. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Rongtan, Rentao Mu, Kun Li, et al.. (2024). Dynamically Confined Active Silver Nanoclusters with Ultrawide Operating Temperature Window in CO oxidation. Angewandte Chemie. 137(4). 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinbao, Junjie Li, Jianyang Wang, et al.. (2024). Dehydrogenation of n-Butane on Metal Cobalt Sites Confined within Ceria Nanoislands. ACS Catalysis. 14(20). 15123–15132. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Mao, Yifei Yang, Jun Chen, et al.. (2023). Adsorption of water, hydrogen and oxygen on graphene/Pt(111) surfaces: 2D graphene cover effect studied by temperature programmed desorption. Surfaces and Interfaces. 44. 103735–103735. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Jieli, Xin Chang, Sai Chen, et al.. (2021). On the Role of Sn Segregation of Pt-Sn Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 11(8). 4401–4410. 79 indexed citations

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Luo, Ran, Guodong Sun, Sai Chen, et al.. (2020). Facilitating the reduction of V–O bonds on VO_x/ZrO₂ catalysts for non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation. Chemical Science. 11(15). 3845–3851. 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xianhua, Chunlei Pei, Xin Chang, et al.. (2020). FeO₆ Octahedral Distortion Activates Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Methane Partial Oxidation Coupled with CO₂ Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(26). 11540–11549. 300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Shuai, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Xin Chang, et al.. (2019). Activation and Spillover of Hydrogen on Sub‐1 nm Palladium Nanoclusters Confined within Sodalite Zeolite for the Semi‐Hydrogenation of Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(23). 7668–7672. 176 indexed citations

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Chen, Sai, Liang Zeng, Rentao Mu, et al.. (2019). Modulating Lattice Oxygen in Dual-Functional Mo–V–O Mixed Oxides for Chemical Looping Oxidative Dehydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18653–18657. 172 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanan, Sihang Liu, Chunlei Pei, et al.. (2019). Modulating the surface defects of titanium oxides and consequent reactivity of Pt catalysts. Chemical Science. 10(45). 10531–10536. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuai, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Xin Chang, et al.. (2019). Activation and Spillover of Hydrogen on Sub‐1 nm Palladium Nanoclusters Confined within Sodalite Zeolite for the Semi‐Hydrogenation of Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie. 131(23). 7750–7754. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Hao, Shenjun Zha, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, et al.. (2018). The Nature of Loading-Dependent Reaction Barriers over Mixed RuO₂/TiO₂ Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 8(6). 5526–5532. 38 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wenjin, Lei Zhang, Piaoping Yang, et al.. (2018). Formation of Enriched Vacancies for Enhanced CO₂ Electrocatalytic Reduction over AuCu Alloys. ACS Energy Letters. 3(9). 2144–2149. 104 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zhi‐Jian, Chuanye Xiong, Guodong Sun, et al.. (2018). Hydroxyl‐Mediated Non‐oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation over VO_x/γ‐Al₂O₃ Catalysts with Improved Stability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(23). 6791–6795. 170 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zhi‐Jian, Chuanye Xiong, Guodong Sun, et al.. (2018). Hydroxyl‐Mediated Non‐oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation over VO_x/γ‐Al₂O₃ Catalysts with Improved Stability. Angewandte Chemie. 130(23). 6907–6911. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jiubing, Shenjun Zha, Rentao Mu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, & Jinlong Gong. (2018). Coverage Effect on the Activity of the Acetylene Semihydrogenation over Pd–Sn Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(11). 6005–6013. 32 indexed citations

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Chang, Xiaoxia, Tuo Wang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, et al.. (2018). Tuning Cu/Cu₂O Interfaces for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol in Aqueous Solutions. Angewandte Chemie. 130(47). 15641–15645. 34 indexed citations

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Chang, Xiaoxia, Tuo Wang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, et al.. (2018). Titelbild: Tuning Cu/Cu₂O Interfaces for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol in Aqueous Solutions (Angew. Chem. 47/2018). Angewandte Chemie. 130(47). 15507–15507. 1 indexed citations

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Mu, Rentao, Shenjun Zha, Guodong Sun, et al.. (2018). Subsurface catalysis-mediated selectivity of dehydrogenation reaction. Science Advances. 4(8). eaar5418–eaar5418. 121 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zhi‐Jian, Rentao Mu, Xiaohui Wang, & Jinlong Gong. (2017). Fast Prediction of CO Binding Energy via the Local Structure Effect on PtCu Alloy Surfaces. Langmuir. 33(35). 8700–8706. 28 indexed citations

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