Highlights:
1. Ye Tian, Jiani Hong, Duanyun Cao, Sifan You, Yizhi Song, Bowei Cheng, Zhichang
Wang, Dong Guan, Xinmeng Liu, Zhengpu Zhao, Xin-Zheng Li, Limei Xu, Jing Guo*,
Ji Chen*, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Visualizing Eigen/Zundel cations and their
interconversion in monolayer water on metal surfaces”. Science 377, 315-319
(2022). DOI: 10.1126/science.abo0823
2. Pu Yang, Chen Zhang, Wenyu Sun, Jia Dong, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo* and Ying
Jiang*. “Robustness of bilayer hexagonal ice against surface symmetry and
corrugation”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 046001 (2022). (Editors' Suggestion, Featured in
Physics) DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.046001
3. Pu Yang, Honggang Liu, Qingwei Jin, Yuemiao Lai, Yi Zeng, Chen Zhang, Jia
Dong, Wenyu Sun, Qing Guo*, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo*. “Visualizing the promoting
role of interfacial water in the deprotonation of formic acid on Cu(111)”. J. Am.
Chem. Soc. 146, 210-217 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07726
4. Wenyu Sun, Pu Yang, Yongkang Jiang, Jingwei Zhang, Hongrun Zhang, Qingwei
Jin, Chen Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Haifeng Feng, Yi Du, Zhichang Wang*, Duanyun
Cao*, Feng Wu, Ying Jiang & Jing Guo*. “Visualizing alkali metal aggregation-
induced coordination in CO2 activation on copper”. Nature Communications 16,
9463 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64499-4
5. Jing Xie, Yi Zeng, Ziqi Sun, Jiawang Liu, Chen Zhang, Yue Wang, Wenyu Sun,
Jiahui Wang, Duanyun Cao*, Qing Guo*, Jing Guo*. “Potassium-promoted formic
acid dehydrogenation on Cu(111): visualizing HCOO-‑K+ Intermediates”. JACS Au 5,
3366-3373 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00462
Full Publications list:
35. Song, X., Zhang, C., Tang, D. et al. Pure-violet oxygen-doped carbon quantum rings with near-unity quantum yield and a full-width at half-maximum of 18 nm. Nat.Synth (2025).DOI：https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-025-00922-4
34. Wenyu Sun, Pu Yang, Yongkang Jiang, Jingwei Zhang, Hongrun Zhang, Qingwei Jin, Chen Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Haifeng Feng, Yi Du, Zhichang Wang*, Duanyun Cao*, Feng Wu, Ying Jiang & Jing Guo*. “Visualizing alkali metal aggregation-induced coordination in CO2 activation on copper”. Nature Communications 16, 9463 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64499-4
33. Jing Xie, Yi Zeng, Ziqi Sun, Jiawang Liu, Chen Zhang, Yue Wang, Wenyu Sun, Jiahui Wang, Duanyun Cao*, Qing Guo*, Jing Guo*. “Potassium-promoted formic acid dehydrogenation on Cu(111): visualizing HCOO-‑K+ Intermediates”. JACS Au 5, 3366-3373 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00462
32. Pu Yang, Mengyu Zhao, Xiayu Ran, Chen Zhang, Weiqiang Luo, Wenyu Sun, Jing Xie, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo*. “Identifying the structure of two-dimensional ACu6O5 (A = Na, K, Cs) film on Cu(111) with atomic resolution. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 16, 1038-1044 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03093
31. Xin Li, Zhen Xu, Donglei Bu, Jinming Cai, Huamei Chen, Qi Chen, Ting Chen, Fang Cheng, Lifeng Chi, Wenjie Dong, Zhenchao Dong, Shixuan Du, Qitang Fan, Xing Fan, Qiang Fu, Song Gao, Jing Guo, Weijun Guo, Yang He, Shimin Hou, Ying Jiang, Huihui Kong, Baojun Li, Dengyuan Li, Jie Li, Qing Li, Ruoning Li, Shuying Li, Yuxuan Lin, Mengxi Liu, Peinian Liu, Yanyan Liu, Jingtao Lü, Chuanxu Ma, Haoyang Pan, JinLiang Pan, Minghu Pan, Xiaohui Qiu, Ziyong Shen, Qiang Sun, Shijing Tan, Bing Wang, Dong Wang, Li Wang, Lili Wang, Tao Wang, Xiang Wang, Xingyue Wang, Xueyan Wang, Yansong Wang, Yu Wang, Kai Wu, Wei Xu, Na Xue, Linghao Yan, Fan Yang, Zhiyong Yang, Chi Zhang, Xue Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yao Zhang, Xiong Zhou, Junfa Zhu, Yajie Zhang*, Feixue Gao*, Yongfeng Wang*. “Recent progress on surface chemistry Ⅱ: Property and characterization”. Chinese Chemical Letters 36, 110100 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110100
30. Xin Li, Zhen Xu, Donglei Bu, Jinming Cai, Huamei Chen, Qi Chen, Ting Chen, Fang Cheng, Lifeng Chi, Wenjie Dong, Zhenchao Dong, Shixuan Du, Qitang Fan, Xing Fan, Qiang Fu, Song Gao, Jing Guo, Weijun Guo, Yang He, Shimin Hou, Ying Jiang, Huihui Kong, Baojun Li, Dengyuan Li, Jie Li, Qing Li, Ruoning Li, Shuying Li, Yuxuan Lin, Mengxi Liu, Peinian Liu, Yanyan Liu, Jingtao Lü, Chuanxu Ma, Haoyang Pan, JinLiang Pan, Minghu Pan, Xiaohui Qiu, Ziyong Shen, Shijing Tan, Bing Wang, Dong Wang, Li Wang, Lili Wang, Tao Wang, Xiang Wang, Xingyue Wang, Xueyan Wang, Yansong Wang, Yu Wang, Kai Wu, Wei Xu, Na Xue, Linghao Yan, Fan Yang, Zhiyong Yang, Chi Zhang, Xue Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yao Zhang, Xiong Zhou, Junfa Zhu, Yajie Zhang*, Feixue Gao*, Yongfeng Wang*. “Recent progress on surface chemistry I: Assembly and reaction”. Chinese Chemical Letters 35, 110055 (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110055
29. Zihao Zhang, Jing Guo*. “Visualizing the step bunching on Pt surfaces and its effect in electrocatalysis with EC-STM”. Chem. Catalysis. 4, 101228 (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2024.101228
28. Cheng Zhang, Jia Dong, Pu Yang, Honggang Liu, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo*. “Water-induced multicyclization of alcohol molecules on copper visualized by atomic force microscopy”. J. Phys. Chem. C. 128, 9060-9067 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02039
27. Jiani Hong, Ye Tian, Tiancheng Liang, Xinmeng Liu, Yizhi Song, Dong Guan, Zixiang Yan, Jiadong Guo, Binze Tang, Duanyun Cao, Jing Guo, Ji Chen, Ding Pan, Li-Mei Xu*, En-Ge Wang*, Ying Jiang*. “Imaging surface structure and premelting of ice Ih with atomic resolution”. Nature 630, 375-380 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07427-8
26. Pu Yang, Honggang Liu, Qingwei Jin, Yuemiao Lai, Yi Zeng, Chen Zhang, Jia Dong, Wenyu Sun, Qing Guo*, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo*. “Visualizing the promoting role of interfacial water in the deprotonation of formic acid on Cu(111)”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 210-217 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07726
25. Pu Yang, Chen Zhang, Wenyu Sun, Jia Dong, Duanyun Cao*, Jing Guo* and Ying Jiang*. “Robustness of bilayer hexagonal ice against surface symmetry and corrugation”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 046001 (2022). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.046001
24. Ye Tian, Jiani Hong, Duanyun Cao, Sifan You, Yizhi Song, Bowei Cheng, Zhichang Wang, Dong Guan, Xinmeng Liu, Zhengpu Zhao, Xin-Zheng Li, Limei Xu, Jing Guo*, Ji Chen*, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Visualizing Eigen/Zundel cations and their interconversion in monolayer water on metal surfaces”. Science 377, 315-319 (2022). DOI: 10.1126/science.abo0823
23. Jing Guo* and Ying Jiang*. “Submolecular insights into interfacial water by hydrogen-sensitive scanning probe microscopy”. Acc. Chem. Res. 55, 1680-1692 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00111
22. Chen Zhang, Tong Liu, Duanyun Cao, Jing Guo*, “Submolecular-resolution imaging of water clusters on the Cu(110) surface by atomic force microscopy”. Sci Sin Chim. 52, 940-946 (2022). DOI: 10.1360/SSC-2021-0269
21. Jia Dong, Pu Yang, Chen Zhang, Duanyun Cao*, Ying Jiang and Jing Guo*. “Atomic insight into the interfacial effect on the molecular solvation”. J. Phys. Chem. C 126, 3756-3763 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c10296
20. Jinbo Peng*, Jing Guo, Runze Ma and Ying Jiang*. “Water-solid interfaces probed by high-resolution atomic force microscopy”. Surface Science Reports 77, 100549 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2021.100549
19. Jing Guo*, Duanyun Cao, Ji Chen, Ke Bian, Limei Xu, En-Ge Wang and Ying Jiang*. “Probing the intermolecular coupled vibrations in a water cluster with inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy”. J. Chem. Phys. 152, 234301 (2020). DOI: 10.1063/5.0009385
18. Runze Ma, Duanyun Cao, Chongqin Zhu, Ye Tian, Jinbo Peng, Jing Guo, Ji Chen, Xin-Zheng Li, Joseph S. Francisco, Xiao Cheng Zeng*, Limei Xu*, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Atomic imaging of the edge structure and growth of a two-dimensional hexagonal ice”. Nature 577, 60-63 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1853-4
17. Jian Peng, Bili Chen, Zhichang Wang, Jing Guo, Binghui Wu, Shuqiang Hao, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Qin Zhou, Zhi Liu, Shuqin Hong, Sifan You, Ang Fu, Zaifa Shi, Hao Xie, Duanyun Cao, Chang-Jian Lin, Gang Fu*, Lan-Sun Zheng, Ying Jiang* and Nanfeng Zheng*. “Surface coordination layer passivates oxidation of copper”. Nature 586, 390-394 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2783-x
16. Jing Guo and Ying Jiang*. “Nuclear quantum effects in surface chemistry”. Chin. J. Catal. 40, 104-110 (2019).
15. Duanyun Cao, Yizhi Song, Jinbo Peng, Runze Ma, Jing Guo, Ji Chen, Xinzheng Li, Ying Jiang, Enge Wang and Limei Xu*. “Advances in atomic force microscopy: weakly perturbative imaging of the interfacial water”. Frontier in Chemistry 7, 626 (2019). DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00626
14. Sifan You，Luye Sun，Jing Guo，Xiaohui Qiu* and Ying Jiang*. “Recent advances in probing surface/interfacial water by scanning probe microscopy”. Acta Phys. Sin. 68, 016802 (2019). DOI: 10.7498/aps.68.20182201
13. Jing Guo and Ying Jiang*. “Investigating nuclear quantum effects of water”. Chin Sci Bull. 63, 1332-1347 (2018). DOI: 10.1360/n972018-00331
12. Jing Guo, Sifan You, Zhichang Wang, Jinbo Peng, Runze Ma and Ying Jiang. “Probing the structure and dynamics of interfacial water with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy”. J. Vis. Exp. 135, 57193 (2018). DOI: 10.3791/57193
11. Jinbo Peng, Jing Guo, Prokop Hapala, Duanyun Cao, Runze Ma, Bowei Cheng, Limei Xu, Martin Ondráček, Pavel Jelínek*, Enge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Weakly perturbative imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution by atomic force microscopy”. Nature Communications 9, 122 (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02635-5
10. Jinbo Peng, Duanyun Cao, Zhili He, Jing Guo, Prokop Hapala, Runze Ma, Bowei Cheng, Ji Chen, Wen Jun Xie, Xin-Zheng Li, Pavel Jelínek, Limei Xu*, Yiqin Gao*, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transport of sodium ions”. Nature 557, 701-705(2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0122-2
9. Yexin Feng, Zhichang Wang, Jing Guo, Ji Chen, En-Ge Wang, Ying Jiang*, and Xin-zheng Li*. “The collective and quantum nature of proton transfer in the cyclic water tetramer on NaCl(001)”. J. Chem. Phys. 148, 102329 (2018). DOI: 10.1063/1.5004737
8. Jinbo Peng, Jing Guo, Runze Ma, Xiangzhi Meng and Ying Jiang*. “Atomic-scale imaging of the dissolution of NaCl islands by water at low temperature”. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 104001 (2017). DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa537a
7. Jing Guo, Xin-Zheng Li, Jinbo Peng, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Atomic-scale investigation of nuclear quantum effects of surface water: Experiments and theory”. Prog. Surf. Sci. 92, 203-239 (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.progsurf.2017.11.001
6. Sifan You, Jing-Tao Lü*, Jing Guo and Ying Jiang*. “Recent advances in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy”. Advances in Physics: X, 2(3), 907-936 (2017). DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2017.1372215
5. Jing Guo, Ke Bian, Zeren Lin and Ying Jiang*. “Perspective: structure and dynamics of water at surfaces probed by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy”. J. Chem. Phys. 145, 160901 (2016). DOI: 10.1063/1.4964668
4. Jing Guo, Jing-tao Lü, Yexin Feng, Ji Chen, Jinbo Peng, Zeren Lin, Xiangzhi Meng, Zhichang Wang, Xin-Zheng Li*, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Nuclear quantum effects of hydrogen bonds probed by tip-enhanced inelastic electron tunneling”. Science 352, 321-325 (2016). DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2042
3. Xiangzhi Meng, Jing Guo, Jinbo Peng, Ji Chen, Zhichang Wang, Jun-Ren Shi, Xin-Zheng Li, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Direct visualization of concerted proton tunnelling in a water nanocluster”. Nature Physics 11, 235-239 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/nphys3225
2. Ji Chen, Jing Guo, Xiangzhi Meng, Jinbo Peng, Jiming Sheng, Limei Xu, Ying Jiang*, Xin-Zheng Li* and En-Ge Wang. “An unconventional bilayer ice structure on a NaCl(001) film”. Nature Communications 5, 4056 (2014). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5056
1. Jing Guo, Xiangzhi Meng, Ji Chen, Jinbo Peng, Jiming Sheng, Xin-Zheng Li, Limei Xu, Jun-Ren Shi, En-Ge Wang* and Ying Jiang*. “Real-space imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution”. Nature Materials 13, 184-189 (2014). DOI: 10.1038/nmat3848