(1) Construction of oxide defects and multi-scale modulation of their catalytic performance
(2) Surface chemistry of single atom catalysts
(3) The role of water and hydroxyls in heterogeneous catalysis
(1) 2016 Young Scientist Prize of the 16th International Congress on Catalysis
(2) 2012 Excellent Award of the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(3) 2012 Outstanding Graduate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
[1] Aiyi Dong#, Le Lin#, Rentao Mu*, Rongtan Li, Kun Li, Chao Wang, Yunjun Cao, Yunjian Ling, Yuxiang Chen, Fan Yang, Xiulian Pan, Qiang Fu*, Xinhe Bao*, Modulating the Formation and Evolution of Surface Hydrogen Species on ZnO through Cr Addition, ACS Catal., 2022, 12: 6255-6264
[2] Siqin Zhao#, Le Lin#, Wugen Huang, Rankun Zhang, Dongqing Wang, Rentao Mu*, Qiang Fu*, Xinhe Bao, Design of Lewis Pairs via Interface Engineering of Oxide-Metal Composite Catalyst for Water Activation, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2021, 12: 1443-1452
[3] Jimin Song, Sihang Liu, Chengsheng Yang, Guishuo Wang, Hao Tian, Zhi-jian Zhao, Rentao Mu*, Jinlong Gong, The Role of Al Doping in Pd/ZnO Catalyst for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol, Appl. Catal. B-Environ., 2020, 263: 118367
[4] Shuai Wang#, Zhi-Jian Zhao#, Xin Chang, Jiubing Zhao, Hao Tian, Chengsheng Yang, Mingrun Li, Qiang Fu, Rentao Mu*, Jinlong Gong*, Activation and Spillover of Hydrogen on Sub-1 nm Palladium Nanoclusters Confined within Sodalite Zeolite for the Semi-Hydrogenation of Alkynes, Angew. Chem. Int. Edit., 2019, 58: 7668-7672
[5] Rentao Mu, Zhi-jian Zhao, Zdenek Dohnálek, Jinlong Gong*, Structural Motifs of Water on Metal Oxide Surfaces, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46: 1785-1806