Publications

At the University of Toronto

† denotes equal contribution, * denotes corresponding author

1. To be updated.

Before joining the University of Toronto

† denotes equal contribution, * denotes corresponding author

40. Electrochemical CO2 conversion for sustainable methanol production: experimental considerations and outlook 

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 34183-34198 (2025)

       S. Yu*, D. Menga, A. Morankar, S. Muy, M. Busch, V. Tileli, and Y. Shao-Horn*

39. Stable Metal–Organic Electrocatalysts for Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers by Defect Engineering

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 29838-29851 (2025)

       H. Xu, D. J. Zheng, S. Wang, E. Y. Zheng, Y. Zhang, T. Liu, J. Liu, D. Menga, J. Kim, J.-H. Fang, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, L. Schröck, J. Wang, S. Lee, S. Yu, H. Iriawan, 

       G. Zhu, Y. Román-Leshkov*, Ju Li*, and Y. Shao-Horn

38. Assessing the Activity of Transition Metal Oxides for the Electrochemical N2 Oxidation to Nitrate,

       ACS Catal. 15, 6315-6333 (2025)

       H. Iriawan, G. Leverick, B. Alkan, D. Delgado, J. Eom, H. Xu, S. Yu, L. Giordano, A. Trunschke, I. Stephens, and Y. Shao-Horn*

37. Reactivating molecular cobalt catalysts for electrochemical CO2 conversion to methanol 

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 12298-12307 (2025)

       S. Yu*, H. Yamauchi, D. Menga, S. Wang, A. Herzog, H. Xu, D. J. Zheng, X. Wang, H. Iriawan, B. Huang, A. Nitsche, and Y. Shao-Horn*

36. Upshifting Lithium Plating Potential To Enhance Electrochemical Lithium Mediated Ammonia Synthesis 

       ACS Energy Lett. 9, 4883-4891 (2024)

       H. Iriawan, A. Herzog, S. Yu, N. Ceribelli, and Y. Shao-Horn*

35. CO2-to-methanol electroconversion on a molecular cobalt catalyst facilitated by acidic cations

       Nature Catalysis 7, 1000-1009 (2024)

       S. Yu*, H. Yamauchi, S. Wang, A. Aggarwal, J. Kim, K. Gordiz, B. Huang, H. Xu, D. J. Zheng, X. Wang, H. Iriawan, D. Menga, and Y. Shao-Horn*

34. In situ Observation of the Electrocatalytic Microenvironment Formation at the Nanometer Scale 

       Nature Catalysis 7, 422-431 (2024)

       Y. Shan, X. Zhao, M. F. Guzman, A. Jana, S. Chen, S. Yu, K. C. Ng, I. Roh, H. Chen, V. Altoe, S. G. Corder, H. A. Bechtel, J. Qian, M. B. Salmeron, and P. Yang*

33. Operando Electrochemical Liquid-Cell STEM (EC-STEM) Studies of Evolving Cu Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction 

       ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 11, 4119-4124 (2023)

       Y. Yang, J. Yu-Tsun, J. Jin, J. Feijóo, I. Roh, S. Louisia, S. Yu, M. F. Guzman, C. Chen, D. Muller, H. Abruña, and P. Yang*

32. Benzyl Alcohol Photo-oxidation Based on Molecular Electronic Transitions in Metal Halide Perovskites 

       ACS Photonics 10, 772-779 (2023)

       J. Jin, H. Huang, C. Chen, P. Smith, M. Folgueras, S. Yu, Y. Zhang, P.-C. Chen, F. Seeler, B. Schaefer, C. Lizandara-Pueyo, R. Zhang, K. Schierle-Arndt, and 

       P. Yang*

31. Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction

       Nature 614, 262-269 (2023)

       Y. Yang†, S. Louisia†, S. Yu†, J. Jin, I. Roh, C. Chen, M. V. F. Guzman, J. Feijoo, P.-C. Chen, C. Pollock, X. Huang, H. Wang, Y.-T. Shao, C. Wang, D. A. Muller, 

       H. Abruña, and P. Yang*

30. Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C-C coupling in tandem CO2 electroreduction 

       Nature Catalysis 5, 878-887 (2022)

       C. Chen†, S. Yu†, Y. Yang, S. Louisia, I. Roh, J. Jin, S. Chen, P.-C. Chen, Y. Shan, and P. Yang*

29. Operando Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Studies of Chemical Environment and Interparticle Dynamics of Cu Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction 

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 8927-8931 (2022)

       Y. Yang, I. Roh, S. Louisia, C. Chen, J. Jin, S. Yu, M. B. Salmeron, C. Wang*, and P. Yang*

28. Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction towards Multi-carbon Products with Silicon Nanowire Photoelectrodes Interfaced with Copper Nanoparticles 

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 8002-8006 (2022)

       I. Roh, S. Yu, C.-K. Lin, S. Louisia, S. Cestellos-Blanco, and P. Yang*

27. Photosynthetic biohybrid co-culture for tandem and tunable CO2 and N2 fixation 

       Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2122364119 (2022)

       S. Cestellos-Blanco, R. R. Chan, Y.-X. Shen, J. M. Kim, T. A. Tacken, R. Ledbetter, S. Yu, L. C. Seefeldt, and P. Yang*

26. The presence and role of the intermediary CO reservoir in heterogeneous electroreduction of CO2 

       Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2201922119 (2022)

       S. Louisia, D. Kim, Y. Li, M. Gao, S. Yu, I. Roh, and P. Yang*

25. The interactive dynamics of nanocatalyst structure and its microenvironment during the electrochemical conversion of CO2 

       JACS Au 2, 562-572 (2022)

       S. Yu†, S. Louisia†, and P. Yang*

24. Nanoparticle assembly induced ligand interactions for enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 conversion 

       J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 19919-19927 (2021)

       S. Yu†, D. Kim†, Z. Qi, S. Louisia, Y. Li, G. A. Somorjai, and P. Yang*

23. Heterostructured Au-Ir Catalysts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction 

       ACS Materials Lett. 3, 1440-1447 (2021)

       P.-C. Chen, M. Li, J. Jin, S. Yu, S. Chen, C. Chen, M. Salmeron, and P. Yang*

22. Ligand Removal of Au25 Nanoclusters by Thermal and Electrochemical Treatments for Selective CO2 Electroreduction to CO

       J. Chem. Phys. 155, 051101 (2021)

       S. Chen, M. Li, S. Yu, S. Louisia, W. Chuang, M. Gao, C. Chen, J. Jin, M. Salmeron, and P. Yang*

21. Revealing the Phase Separation Behavior of Thermodynamically Immiscible Elements in a Nanoparticle 

       Nano Lett. 21, 6684-6689 (2021)

       P.-C. Chen, M. Gao, S. Yu, J. Jin, C. Song, M. Salmeron, M. Scott, and P. Yang*

20. A New Perspective and Design of Halide Perovskites: Ionic Octahedron Network (ION) 

       Nano Lett. 21, 5415-5421 (2021)

       J. Jin, M. C. Folgueras, M. Gao, S. Yu, F. Seeler, S. Louisia, Y. Zhang, L. N. Quan, C. Chen, R. Zhang, K. Schierle-Arndt, and P. Yang*

19. Sulfur-doped Graphene Anchoring of Ultrafine Au25 Nanoclusters for Electrocatalysis

       Nano Res. 4, 3509-3513 (2021)

       M. Li, B. Zhang, T. Cheng, S. Yu, S. Louisia, C. Chen, S. Chen, S. Cestellos-Blanco, M. Salmeron, W. Goddard III, and P. Yang*

18. Kinetics of Moisture-Induced Phase Transformation in CsPbI3 Perovskite

       Matter 4, 2392-2402 (2021)

       Z. Lin, Y. Zhang, M. Gao, J. A. Steele, S. Louisia, S. Yu, L. N. Quan, C.-K. Lin, D. T. Limmer, and P. Yang*

17. Selective CO2 electrocatalysis at the pseudocapacitive nanoparticle/ordered-ligand interlayer 

       Nature Energy 5, 1032-1042 (2020)

       D. Kim†, S. Yu†, F. Zheng, I. Roh, Y. Li, S. Louisia, Z. Qi, G. A. Somorjai, H. Frei, L.-W. Wang, and P. Yang*

16. Cu-Ag tandem catalysts for high-rate CO2 electrolysis towards multi-carbons 

      Joule 4, 1688-1699 (2020)

      C. Chen, Y. Li, S. Yu, S. Louisia, J. Jin, M. Li, M. Ross, and P. Yang*

15. Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

       Nano Lett. 20, 3734-3739 (2020)

       J. Huang, T. Lei, M. Siron, Y. Zhang, S. Yu, F. Seeler, A. Dehestani, L. N. Quan, K. Schierle-Arndt, and P. Yang*

14. Scaling Laws of Exciton Recombination Kinetics in Low Dimensional Halide Perovskite Nanostructures 

      J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 8871-8879 (2020)

      M. Gao, H. Liu, S. Yu, S. Louisia, Y. Zhang, D. P. Nenon, A. P. Alivisatos, and P. Yang*

13. Electrochemically scrambled nanocrystals are catalytically active for CO2-to-multicarbons 

       Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 9194-9201 (2020)

       Y. Li, D. Kim, S. Louisia, C. Xie, Q. Kong, S. Yu, T. Lin, S. Aloni, S. C. Fakra, and P. Yang*

12. Copper(I) Based Highly Emissive All-Inorganic Rare-Earth Halide Clusters 

       Matter 1, 180-191 (2019)

       J. Lin, H. Chen, J. Kang, L. N. Quan, Z. Lin, Q. Kong, M. Lai, S. Yu, L. Wang, L.-w. Wang, M. F. Toney, and P. Yang*

11. Rational Design of Protective In2O3 Layer-Coated Carbon Nanopaper Membrane: Toward Stable Cathode for Long-Cycle Li-O2 Batteries

       Nano Energy 46, 193-202 (2018)

       J.-W. Jung, D.-W. Choi, C. K. Lee, K. R. Yoon, S. Yu, J. Y. Cheong, C. Kim, S.-H. Cho, J.-S. Park, Y. J. Park, and I.-D. Kim*

10. Mesoporous orthorhombic Nb2O5 nanofibers as pseudocapacitive electrodes with ultra-stable Li storage characteristics

      J. Power Sources 360, 434-442 (2017)

      J. Y. Cheong, J.-W. Jung, D.-Y. Youn, C. Kim, S. Yu, S.-H. Cho, K. R. Yoon, and I.-D. Kim*

9. 2D WS2-Edge Functionalized Multi-Channel Carbon Nanofibers: Effect of WS2 Edge-Abundant Structure on Room Temperature NO2 Sensing

    J. Mater. Chem. A 5, 8725-8732 (2017)

    J.-H. Cha, S.-J. Choi, S. Yu, and I.-D. Kim*

8. Conducting Nanopaper: A Carbon-Free Cathode Platform for Li-O2 Batteries

    ACS Energy Lett. 2, 673-680 (2017)

    J.-W. Jung, H.-G. Im, D. Lee, S. Yu, J.-H. Jang, K. R. Yoon, Y. H. Kim, J. B. Goodenough, J. Jin*, I.-D. Kim*, and B.-S. Bae*

7. Nanoscale PdO Catalyst Functionalized Co3O4 Hollow Nanocages Using MOF Templates for Selective Detection of Acetone Molecules in Exhaled Breath 

    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9, 8201-8210 (2017)

    W.-T. Koo, S. Yu, S.-J. Choi, J.-S. Jang, J. Y. Cheong, and I.-D. Kim*

6. Dimensional Effects of MoS2 Nanoplates Embedded in Carbon Nanofibers for Bifunctional Li and Na Insertion and Conversion Reactions
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8, 26758-26768 (2016)

    J.-W. Jung, W.-H. Ryu, S. Yu, C. Kim, S.-H. Cho, and I.-D. Kim*

5. Metal Chelation Assisted In Situ Migration and Functionalization of Catalysts on Peapod-Like Hollow SnO2 toward a Superior Chemical Sensor
    Small 12, 5989-5997 (2016)

    J.-S. Jang, S. Yu, S.-J. Choi, S.-J. Kim, W.-T. Koo, and I.-D. Kim*

4. Electrospun Nanofibers as a Platform for Advanced Secondary Batteries: A Comprehensive Review
    J. Mater. Chem. A 4, 703-750 (2016)

    J.-W. Jung, C.-L. Lee, S. Yu, and I.-D. Kim*

3. Rational Design of Efficient Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Single Layers of WS2 Nanoplates Anchored to Hollow Nitrogen-Doped Carbon   

    Nanofibers
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 28116-28121 (2015)

    S. Yu†, J. Kim†, K. R. Yoon, J.-W. Jung, J. Oh*, and I.-D. Kim*

2. Single layers of WS2 embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries

    Nanoscale 7, 11945-11950 (2015)

    S. Yu, J.-W. Jung, and I.-D. Kim*

1. Improved high temperature integration of Al2O3 on MoS2 by using a metal oxide buffer layer 

    Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 021601 (2015)

    S. Son†, S. Yu†, M. Choi, D. Kim, and C. Choi*