Zhen Ren

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Zhen Ren is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Ren has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Materials Chemistry, 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhen Ren's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (8 papers). Zhen Ren is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (8 papers). Zhen Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Zhen Ren's co-authors include Min Wei, Yusen Yang, Fengwei Huo, Weina Zhang, Yu Shen, Ting Pan, Liu Wang, Lei Wang, Yingjie Song and Mingfei Shao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Ren

36 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Highly Stable Pt/CeO₂ Catalyst with Embedding Structure toward Water–Gas Shift Reaction

2023 109 citations Jun Yu, Xuetao Qin et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhen Ren China	21	670	512	342	295	274	38	1.3k
Zhuoran Xu United States	15	684 1.0×	890 1.7×	539 1.6×	500 1.7×	306 1.1×	28	1.7k
Biswanath Dutta United States	16	780 1.2×	778 1.5×	440 1.3×	205 0.7×	172 0.6×	24	1.7k
Andrey Goryachev Netherlands	17	593 0.9×	890 1.7×	405 1.2×	323 1.1×	408 1.5×	22	1.5k
Yuxiao Ding China	24	838 1.3×	641 1.3×	457 1.3×	141 0.5×	320 1.2×	51	1.6k
Weiwei Lin China	24	501 0.7×	401 0.8×	212 0.6×	502 1.7×	281 1.0×	40	1.3k
David A. Kriz United States	19	909 1.4×	705 1.4×	498 1.5×	195 0.7×	351 1.3×	28	1.6k
Curtis Guild United States	21	715 1.1×	894 1.7×	620 1.8×	237 0.8×	384 1.4×	39	1.8k
Yi Yao China	17	531 0.8×	437 0.9×	587 1.7×	159 0.5×	219 0.8×	35	1.3k
Jiangrong Yang China	16	570 0.9×	895 1.7×	328 1.0×	219 0.7×	146 0.5×	44	1.4k

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Lu, Shaofeng, et al.. (2025). Preparation and application of hydrophobic phase change microcapsules with siloxane/long-chain alkane polyurethane shell. Journal of Energy Storage. 117. 116223–116223.

Ren, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Anchoring Platinum Nanoparticles onto Oxygen Vacancy-Modified Mixed Metal Oxides for Selective Oxidation Reaction of Aromatic Alcohols. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(9). 13736–13746. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Ziwei, Zhen Ren, Xi‐Yan Dong, & Fangfang Pan. (2025). Thiolated Disc Nanoclusters with Pseudo-6-fold Symmetry. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(23). 11370–11379. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Zhen, Xin Song, Si Wang, et al.. (2025). Atomically Dispersed Sn Catalysts toward Selective Oxidation of Furfural to Biodegradable Polymer Monomers. ACS Catalysis. 15(5). 3799–3809. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Jun, Yusen Yang, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Highly Active MnCoO_x Catalyst toward CO Preferential Oxidation. ACS Catalysis. 14(3). 1281–1291. 32 indexed citations

Ren, Zhen, Peng Luo, Ziwei Ma, et al.. (2024). X-ray-triggered through-space charge transfer and photochromism in silver nanoclusters. Nanoscale. 16(5). 2662–2671. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Yusen, Pan Yin, Lei Wang, et al.. (2024). Highly Selective Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Aldehydes in Aqueous Phase. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(11). 13685–13696. 6 indexed citations

Jiang, Jing, Wei Wei, Zhen Ren, et al.. (2023). Facile construction of robust Ru-Co3O4 Mott-Schottky catalyst enabling efficient dehydrogenation of ammonia borane for hydrogen generation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 646. 25–33. 26 indexed citations

Ren, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Pt/ZrO2 catalyst with metal-support synergistic effect towards glycerol selective oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 468. 143623–143623. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Si, Zhen Ren, Haisong Feng, et al.. (2023). Theoretical investigation on oxygen source for selective oxidation of glycerol at Au/CeO2− and Pt/CeO2− interfaces. Fuel. 342. 127884–127884. 5 indexed citations

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Song, Yingjie, Xin Wan, Yucong Miao, et al.. (2023). Blocking oxygen evolution reaction for efficient organic electrooxidation coupling hydrogen production by using layered double hydroxide rich in active oxygen. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 333. 122808–122808. 44 indexed citations

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Ren, Zhen, Yusen Yang, Yiming Niu, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous Interface Catalysts with Electron Local Exchange toward Highly Selective Oxidation of Biomass Platform Compounds. ACS Catalysis. 13(8). 5665–5677. 39 indexed citations

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Yu, Jun, Xuetao Qin, Yusen Yang, et al.. (2023). Highly Stable Pt/CeO₂ Catalyst with Embedding Structure toward Water–Gas Shift Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(1). 1071–1080. 109 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meng, Hao, Zhiming Yin, Lei Wang, et al.. (2023). Designing Cu0−Cu+ dual sites for improved C−H bond fracture towards methanol steam reforming. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7980–7980. 88 indexed citations

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Song, Yingjie, Zhenhua Li, Kui Fan, et al.. (2021). Ultrathin layered double hydroxides nanosheets array towards efficient electrooxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural coupled with hydrogen generation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 299. 120669–120669. 157 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Yusen Yang, Pan Yin, et al.. (2021). MoO_x-Decorated Co-Based Catalysts toward the Hydrodeoxygenation Reaction of Biomass-Derived Platform Molecules. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(27). 31799–31807. 35 indexed citations

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Ren, Zhen, Yusen Yang, Si Wang, et al.. (2021). Pt atomic clusters catalysts with local charge transfer towards selective oxidation of furfural. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 295. 120290–120290. 87 indexed citations

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Yang, Yusen, Zhen Ren, Shijie Zhou, & Min Wei. (2021). Perspectives on Multifunctional Catalysts Derived from Layered Double Hydroxides toward Upgrading Reactions of Biomass Resources. ACS Catalysis. 11(11). 6440–6454. 69 indexed citations

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Liu, Guangfei, Hanyi Li, Yang Liu, et al.. (2021). Extracellular electron transfer influences the transport and retention of ferrihydrite nanoparticles in quartz sand coated with Shewanella oneidensis biofilm. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 417. 126023–126023. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaolin, Junbo Zhang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2020). Charge-Mediated Au+−Oxygen Vacancy towards Glycerol Oxidation with Largely Improved Catalytic Performance. Applied Catalysis A General. 598. 117558–117558. 21 indexed citations

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