长期致力于原子尺度催化剂的设计与电化学器件的创新开发。近年来，累计发表超过三十篇SCI收录的论文，其中包括以第一作者或通讯作者身份发表于Nat. Catal. (1)、Adv. Mater.(3)、Nat. Commun.(1)、 J. Am. Chem. Soc.(2)及Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.(3)等国际顶尖学术期刊的文章。
[1] Yafei Zhao#, Huang Zhou#, Xiaorong Zhu#, Yunteng Qu, Can Xiong, Zhenggang Xue, Qingwei Zhang, Xiaokang Liu, Fangyao Zhou, Xiaoming Mou, Wenyu Wang, Min Chen, Ya Xiong, Xingen Lin, Yue Lin, Wenxing Chen, Hui-Juan Wang, Zheng Jiang, Lirong Zheng, Tao Yao, Juncai Dong, Shiqiang Wei, Weixin Huang, Lin Gu, Jun Luo, Yafei Li*, Yuen Wu*, Simultaneous oxidative and reductive reactions in one system by atomic design, Nat. Catal. 2021, 4, 134.
[2] Yafei Zhao, Xuefeng Lu, Guilan Fan, Deyan Luan, Xiaojun Gu*, Xiong Wen Lou*, Surface-exposed single-Ni atoms with potential-driven dynamic behaviors for highly efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202212542.
[3] Yafei Zhao, Yan Guo, Xuefeng Lu, Deyan Luan, Xiaojun Gu, Xiong Wen Lou*, Exposing single Ni atoms in hollow S/N-doped carbon macroporous fibers for highly efficient electrochemical oxygen evolution, Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2203442.
[4] Yafei Zhao#, Xuefeng Lu#, Zhi-Peng Wu, Zhihao Pei, Deyan Luan*, Xiong Wen Lou*, Supporting trimetallic metal-organic frameworks on S/N-doped carbon macroporous fibers for highly efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution, Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2207888.
[5] Jia Song#, Jianuo Liu#, Xiaorong Zhu#, Xiaoming Mou#, Handuo Zheng, Huang Zhou, Wenyu Wang, Yong Guan*, Jun Tang*, Yue Lin, Lirong Zheng, Tao Yao, Juncai Dong, Shiqiang Wei, Weixin Huang, Lin Gu, Jun Luo, Yafei Li, Yafei Zhao*, Yuen Wu*, Gallium-based eutectic alloys as liquid electron donors to ruthenium single-atom catalysts for selective hydrogenation of vanillin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2025, e202505073.