Representative Publications

T. Wang, Y.H. Xia, C.L. Gao, T.Y. Huang, Z.T. Zhao, M. Chen, M.H. Yang, M.J. Cui*, Yu Ding.* Long-Cycling Organic Flow Batteries Enabled by Electronic-Spatial Synergistic Modulation. Sci. Adv. 2026, Accepted.

M.J. Cui, Z.C. Tian, Y.Q. Gong, B. Xu, Q.T. Gu, H.J. Li, X.Y. Zhang, M.H. Yang,* P. He,* S.X. Dou, Y. Ding.* Heating and leaching-free separation of electrodes by liquid metals for regeneration of spent Li ion batteries. Natl. Sci. Rev. 2026, nwag142.

M.J. Cui,* H.J. Liu, K. Chen, X.W. Shi, B. Xu, C.L. Jiang, D.H. Li, D. Yuan, Y.H. Dou, C. Wu, M.H. Yang, S.X. Dou, Y. Ding,* Scalable and sustainable manufacturing of intermetallic nanocrystals for economical water splitting. Mater. Horiz. 2026, 13, 2358-2370.

Y.H. Xia, T. Wang, G. Yang, Y.H. Liu, J.X. Wu, Y.N. Lai, G. Qin, M.J. Cui,* K. Zhang, C.W. Li, Y. Park, J. Bae, M.H. Yang, Y.G. Yao, X.K. Ren,* Yu Ding.* Bioinspired Ultrafast All-Climate Self-Charging Flow Battery. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 2026, 18, 4, 7026-7035.

T. Wang, G, Yang, M.J. Cui,* H.T. Xia, C.L. Jiang, Y.H. Xia, K. Chen, M.H. Yang, J. Bae, C. Gu & Y. Ding.* Self-charging organic flow batteries based on multivalent metal negative electrodes. Nat. Commun. 2025, 10338.

X.W. Shi, Y.Q. Gong, Z.C. Wang, M.J. Cui,* Z. Lin, Z.Q. Xing, G. Yang, C.L. Jiang, S. Oh, M.H. Yang, J. Bae, Y. Deng,* Y. Ding.* Liquid Metal-Enabled Rapid Structure Ordering of Intermetallic Nanocrystals with Electronic Modulation, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2025, e25452.

M.J. Cui,* H.J. Liu, B. Xu, X.W. Shi, Q.X. Zhai, Y.H. Dou, X.K. Meng, X.H. Liu,* Y. Ding, H.K. Liu, S.X. Dou.* Multi-component intermetallic nanocrystals: A promising frontier in advanced electrocatalysis. Small 2025, 2500306.

M.J. Cui,* B. Xu, Y. Ding,* W.P. Sun, H.K. Liu, S.X. Dou.* Deriving multi-metal nanomaterials on metal-organic framework platforms for oxygen electrocatalysis. Energy Environ. Sci. 2024, 17, 4010-4035.

M.J. Cui, Bo Xu, X.W. Shi, Q.X. Zhai, Y.H. Dou, G.S. Li, Z.C. Bai, Y. Ding,* W.P. Sun,* H.K. Liu, S.X. Dou. Metal-organic framework-derived single-atom catalysts for electrocatalytic energy conversion applications. J. Mater. Chem. A 2024, Doi.org/10.1039/D4TA03518F.

M.J. Cui, C.P. Yang, S. Hwang, M.H. Yang, S. Oven. Q. Dong, Y.G. Yao, A.H. Brozena, D.A. Cullen, M.F. Chi, T.F. Blum, D. Morris, Z. Finfrock, X.Z. Wang, P. Zhang, V.G. Goncharov, X.F. Guo, J. Luo, Y.F. Mo,* F. Jiao,* L.B. Hu,* Multi-principal elemental intermetallic nanoparticles synthesized via a disorder-to-order transition. Sci. Adv. 2022, abm4322.

M.J. Cui, C.P. Yang, S. Hwang, B.Y. Li, H. Xie, M.L. Wu, X.Z Wang, G.F Wang, L.B Hu,* Rapid atomic ordering transformation towards intermetallic nanoparticles. Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 1, 255–262.

M.J. Cui, C.P, Yang, B.Y. Li, Q. Dong, M.L. Wu, S. Hwang, H. Xie, X.Z. Wang, G.F. Wang,* L.B. Hu,* High-entropy metal sulfide nanoparticles promise high-performance oxygen evolution reaction. Adv. Energy Mater., 2021, 2002887.

M.L. Wu, M.J. Cui,(co-first) L.P. Wu, S. Hwang, C.P. Yang, Q.Q. Xia, G. Zhong, H.Y. Qiao, W.T Gan, X.Z. Wang, D. Kline, M.R. Zachariah, D. Su, T. Li,* L.B. Hu,* Hierarchical polyelemental nanoparticles as bifunctional catalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction reactions. Adv. Energy Mater., 2020, 10, 2001119.

C.P. Yang, M.J. Cui,(co-first) N. Li, Z.J. Liu, S. Hwang, H. Xie, X.Z. Wang, Y.D. Kuang, M.L. Jiao, D. Su, L.B. Hu. In situ iron coating on nanocatalysts for efficient and durable oxygen evolution reaction. Nano Energy, 2019, 63, 103855.

M.J. Cui, H.M. Lu,* H.P. Jiang, X.K. Meng,* Electrum, the gold− silver alloy, from the bulk scale to the nanoscale: synthesis, properties, and segregation rules. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 10618-10619.