Shaoxuan Ren

2.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Shaoxuan Ren is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaoxuan Ren has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 8 papers in Catalysis and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shaoxuan Ren's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (8 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Shaoxuan Ren is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (8 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Shaoxuan Ren collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and France. Shaoxuan Ren's co-authors include Curtis P. Berlinguette, Danielle A. Salvatore, Marc Robert, Dorian Joulié, Kristian Torbensen, Min Wang, Eric W. Lees, Richard I. Masel, Jerry J. Kaczur and Hongzhou Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shaoxuan Ren

20 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2021 2019 250 500 750
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.

  1. Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO 2 reduction in a flow cell
    2019 786 citations Shaoxuan Ren, Dorian Joulié et al. Science profile →
  2. An industrial perspective on catalysts for low-temperature CO2 electrolysis
    2021 440 citations Richard I. Masel, Zengcai Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  3. CO2 electrochemical catalytic reduction with a highly active cobalt phthalocyanine
    2019 402 citations Min Wang, Kristian Torbensen et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Shaoxuan Ren
Byung Hee Ko United States
Armin Sedighian Rasouli Canada
Shijie Liu Canada
Eric W. Lees Canada
Byoungsu Kim United States
Chalachew Mebrahtu Germany
Zhan Jiang China
Colin P. O’Brien Canada
Wenhang Wang China
Byung Hee Ko United States
Shaoxuan Ren
Citations per year, relative to Shaoxuan Ren Shaoxuan Ren (= 1×) peers Byung Hee Ko

Countries citing papers authored by Shaoxuan Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shaoxuan Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaoxuan Ren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shaoxuan Ren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shaoxuan Ren based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shaoxuan Ren. Shaoxuan Ren is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ji, Tengxiao, Shaoxuan Ren, Yumeng Yang, et al.. (2025). Low-emission cement clinker precursor production, enabled by electrolytic extraction of calcium from waste cement. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9302–9302.
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Ji, Tengxiao, Shaoxuan Ren, Gaopeng Jiang, et al.. (2025). Limestone Conversion to Cement Clinker Precursor in a Zero-Gap Electrolyzer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(31). 27314–27322.
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Zhang, Zishuai, Shaoxuan Ren, Benjamin A. W. Mowbray, et al.. (2025). Electrolytic cement clinker precursor production sustained through orthogonalization of ion vectors. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(5). 2395–2404. 6 indexed citations
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Lu, Xin, Roxanna S. Delima, Eric W. Lees, et al.. (2024). Visualization of CO2 electrolysis using optical coherence tomography. Nature Chemistry. 16(6). 979–987. 28 indexed citations
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Kim, Yongwook, Zishuai Zhang, Shaoxuan Ren, et al.. (2024). Cathode Surface pH Modulates Multicarbon Product Selectivity during the Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 Capture Solutions. ACS Energy Letters. 9(5). 2326–2332. 18 indexed citations
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Ren, Shaoxuan, Eric W. Lees, Camden Hunt, et al.. (2023). Catalyst Aggregation Matters for Immobilized Molecular CO2RR Electrocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(8). 4414–4420. 94 indexed citations
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Ren, Shaoxuan, et al.. (2023). Off-Road Path-Planning Based on Large Scale OpenStreetMap and DSM Data. 40. 379–386.
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Zhang, Zishuai, Eric W. Lees, Shaoxuan Ren, et al.. (2022). Conversion of Reactive Carbon Solutions into CO at Low Voltage and High Carbon Efficiency. ACS Central Science. 8(6). 749–755. 73 indexed citations
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Lees, Eric W., et al.. (2022). Electrolytic Methane Production from Reactive Carbon Solutions. ACS Energy Letters. 7(5). 1712–1718. 55 indexed citations
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Ji, Tengxiao, Roxanna S. Delima, David Dvořák, et al.. (2022). High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells with Sputtered Metal Contacts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(45). 50731–50738. 3 indexed citations
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Ren, Shaoxuan, Zishuai Zhang, Eric W. Lees, et al.. (2022). Electrocatalysts Derived from Copper Complexes Transform CO into C 2+ Products Effectively in a Flow Cell. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(25). e202200340–e202200340. 15 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zishuai, Eric W. Lees, Faezeh Habibzadeh, et al.. (2022). Porous metal electrodes enable efficient electrolysis of carbon capture solutions. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(2). 705–713. 128 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zishuai, Benjamin A. W. Mowbray, Eric W. Lees, et al.. (2022). Cement clinker precursor production in an electrolyser. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(12). 5129–5136. 22 indexed citations
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Fink, Arthur G., Eric W. Lees, Zishuai Zhang, et al.. (2021). Impact of Alkali Cation Identity on the Conversion of HCO3− to CO in Bicarbonate Electrolyzers. ChemElectroChem. 8(11). 2094–2100. 40 indexed citations
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Masel, Richard I., Zengcai Liu, Hongzhou Yang, et al.. (2021). An industrial perspective on catalysts for low-temperature CO2 electrolysis. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(2). 118–128. 440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Torbensen, Kristian, Dorian Joulié, Shaoxuan Ren, et al.. (2020). Molecular Catalysts Boost the Rate of Electrolytic CO2 Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 5(5). 1512–1518. 63 indexed citations
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Lees, Eric W., Benjamin A. W. Mowbray, Danielle A. Salvatore, et al.. (2020). Linking gas diffusion electrode composition to CO2 reduction in a flow cell. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(37). 19493–19501. 74 indexed citations
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Wang, Min, Kristian Torbensen, Danielle A. Salvatore, et al.. (2019). CO2 electrochemical catalytic reduction with a highly active cobalt phthalocyanine. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3602–3602. 402 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ren, Shaoxuan, Dorian Joulié, Danielle A. Salvatore, et al.. (2019). Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO 2 reduction in a flow cell. Science. 365(6451). 367–369. 786 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ren, Shaoxuan. (2010). Underwater Robot Path Planning Methods Based on Immunization Genetic Algorithms. 25. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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