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Journal Publications

Phototropic and skototropic growth in inorganic films

Madeline C. Meier, Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias H. Richter, Jonathan R. Thompson, Ariel A. Struzyk, Nicolas A. Batara, Sisir Yalamanchili, Harry A. Atwater, Nathan S. Lewis, and Azhar I. Carim

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (40), e2611986123 (2026).

Dual-functional Fe/B-doped carbon nitride electrocatalysts for lattice nitrogen activation and molecular N2 fixation toward sustainable ammonia production

Hsin-Hui Lin, Pin-Yu Shi, Jrjeng Ruan, and Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng*

Electrochimica Acta 578, 149793 (2026).

Efficient Hot-Carrier Injection in Gradient-Nanogap Plasmonic Absorbers for Solar-Driven CO2 Reduction

Hai-Thai Nguyen, Tzu-Yu Peng, Chia-Wei Chang, Hsin-Hui Lin, Yen-Yu Wang, Jia-Wern Chen, Jeyavelan Muthu, Mario Hofmann, Wen-Hui Cheng*, and Yu-Jung Lu*

Advanced Optical Materials 14 (33), e03823, (2026).

Defect-assisted Iron Cation and Boron Anion Codoped Carbon Nitride for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Hsin-Hui Lin, Pin-Yu Shi, Shou-Yu Chen, Ji-Yun Chen, and Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng*

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 14 (54), 37145-37155 (2026).

Ligand-Engineered MOF Catalyst Enabled Energy-Efficient Urea-Assisted Hydrogen Generation

Thi Xuyen Nguyen, Hui-Chuan Chen, Chun-Kuo Peng, Tai-Ming Zheng, Thi Y Phung Nguyen, Yu-Ru Lin, Yan-Gu Lin, Kao-Shu Chuang, Yen-Hsun Su, Hsuan-Ya Huang, Hsin-Hui Lin, Pin-Yu Shi, Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng, Jyh-Ming Ting

Advanced Functional Materials 36 (42), e32036 (2026).

Engineering Doping and Vacancy in C3N4 Electrocatalyst with Ni4Mo Cocatalyst for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution

Hsin-An Lin, Sheng-Chang Wang, Jow-Lay Huang, Yu-Min Shen*, and Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng*

ACS Omega 11 (2), 3390-3397 (2026).

Quasi-Bound State in the Continuum of the Intracoupled All- Dielectric Coherent Metasurface

Tzu-Hsiang Liu, Hung-Yi Wu, Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng

Nano Letters 26 (1), 288-295 (2026).

Ag Nanocrystals Intercalated Muscovite Mesocrystal for Large-Scale 3D SERS

Chia-Yun Sung, Yu-Hao Tu, Le Thi Quynh, Ching-Min Su, Hung-Yi Wu, Lu-Hsing Chen, Kuo-Ping Chen, Wan-Zhen Hsieh, Ching-Yu Chiang, Wen-Hui Sophia Cheng*, and Ying-Hao Chu*

Nano Letters 25 (30), 11632-11639 (2025).

Catalight - An Open-Source Automated Photocatalytic Reactor Package Illustrated through Plasmonic Acetylene Hydrogenation

Briley B. Bourgeois, Alan X. Dai, Claire C. Carlin, Lin Yuan, Alexander Al-Zubeidi, Wen-Hui Cheng, Dayne F. Swearer, and Jennifer A. Dionne

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 129 (27), 6170-6178 (2025).

Enhancing three-way reforming in a blast furnace: insights into the effects of hexagonal boron nitride addition on Ni-Cu-based catalysts with different supports and their reaction mechanisms

Yi-Chun Chen, Jeffrey C. S. Wu, Van-Huy Nguyen, Wen-Hui Cheng, Yu-Jeng Lin, Che-Min Lin, Chun-Hsiu Wang, Shih-Kang Lin

Research on Chemical Intermediates 51, 3701-3723 (2025).

Uniform and delicate adjustment of plasmonic coupling upon evolved MoS2 crystalline shields on individual gold nanoparticles for photocatalytic water splitting

Yi Hsueh Chen, Wen-Hui Cheng, Jrjeng Ruan

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1009, 176604, (2024).

Realization of ultrastrong coupling between LSPR and Fabry–Pérot mode via self-assembly of Au-NPs on p-NiO/Au film

Alexis Angelo R. Garcia, Cheng-An Mao, and Wen-Hui Cheng*

Nanophotonics 13 (14), 2501-2512, (2024).

Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Enabled by Oriented Phase Interactions between Monolayers of P3HT-wrapped MoS2 and Ferroelectric Lamellar Crystals

Kun-Ta Lin, Wen-Hui Cheng, Horng-Long Cheng, Hsin-Hui, Lin, Wei-Yang Chou, Bang-Yu Hsu, Cheng-An Mao, Yu-Cyuan Hou, Jrjeng Ruan

Advanced Functional Materials 34 (2), 2307262, (2024).

Super-additive interaction of homo- and heterosynaptic plasticity in a hot electron transfer optosynapse for visual sensing memory and logic operations

Li-Chung Shih, Kuan-Ting Chen, Shi-Cheng Mao, Ya-Chi Huang, Fang-Jui Chu, Tzu-Hsiang Liu, Wen-Hui Cheng, Jen-Sue Chen

Journal of Materials Chemistry C 11, 11440-11450, (2023)

Controlling Valley-Specific Light Emission from Monolayer MoS2 with Achiral Dielectric Metasurfaces

Yin Liu, Sze Cheung Lau, Wen-Hui Cheng, Amalya Johnson, Qitong Li, Emma Simmerman, Ouri Karni, Jack Hu, Fang Liu, Mark L. Brongersma, Tony F. Heinz, Jennifer A. Dionne

Nano Letters 23 (13), 6124-6131, (2023)

Vertically-stacked discrete plasmonic meta-gratings for broadband space-variant metasurfaces

Amir Hassanfiroozi, Zih-Syuan Yang, Shih-Hsiu Huang, Wen-Hui Cheng*, Yuzhi Shi, Pin Chieh Wu*

Advanced Optical Materials 11 (8), 2202717, (2023)

Integrated solar-driven device with a front surface semitransparent catalysts for unassisted CO2 reduction

Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias H. Richter, Ralph Müller, Michael Kelzenberg, Sisir Yalamanchili, Phillip R. Jahelka, Andrea N. Perry, Pin Chieh Wu, Rebecca Saive, Frank Dimroth, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Thomas Hannappel, Harry A. Atwater

Advanced Energy Materials 12 (36), 2201062, (2022)

The 2022 solar fuels roadmap

Gideon Segev, Jakob Kibsgaard, Christopher Hahn, Zhichuan J Xu, Wen-Hui Cheng, Todd Deutsch, Chengxiang Xiang, Jenny Z. Zhang, Leif Hammarstrom, Daniel Nocera, Adam Z. Weber, Peter Agbo, et al.

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 55 (32), 323003, (2022)

Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water: A Side-by-Side Comparison between Photoelectrochemical and Solar Thermochemical Water-Splitting

Wen-Hui Cheng*, Alberto de la Calle*, Harry A Atwater, Ellen B Stechel, Chengxiang Xiang (*equal contribution)

ACS Energy Letters 6, 3096-3113

Near-infrared active metasurfaces for dynamic polarization conversion

Pin Chieh Wu, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh, Wen-Hui Cheng, Harry A. Atwater

Advanced Optical Materials 9 (16), 2100230

Unassisted highly selective gas-phase CO2 reduction with a plasmonic Au/p-GaN photocatalyst using H2O as an electron donor

Rengui Li*, Wen-Hui Cheng*, Matthias H. Richter, Joseph S. DuChene, Wenming Tian, Can Li and Harry A. Atwater (*equal contribution)

ACS Energy Letters 6 (5), 1849-1856, (2021)

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and sesonant X-ray spectroscopy investigations of interactions between thin metal catalyst films and amorphous titanium dioxide photoelectrode protection layers

Matthias H. Richter*, Wen-Hui Cheng*, Michael F. Lichterman, Ethan J. Crumlin, Walter Drisdell, Harry A. Atwater, Dieter Schmeißer, Nathan S. Lewis, and Bruce S. Brunschwig (*equal contribution)

Chemistry of Materials 33 (4), 1265-1275, (2021)

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CO2 reduction to CO with 19% efficiency in a solar-drive gas diffusion electrode flow cell under outdoor solar illumination

Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias H. Richter, Ian Sullivan, David M. Larson, Chengxiang Xiang, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Harry A. Atwater

ACS Energy Letters 5 (2), 470-476, (2020)

High broadband light transmission for solar fuels production using dielectric optical waveguides in TiO2 nanocone arrays

Sisir Yalamanchili*, Erik Verlage*, Wen-Hui Cheng*, Katherine T. Fountaine, Philip R. Jahelka, Paul A. Kempler, Rebecca Saive, Nathan S. Lewis, Harry A. Atwater (*equal contribution)

Nano Letters 20 (1), 502-508, (2020)

Band Edge Tailoring in Few-Layer Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Sulfide/Selenide Alloys

Yi-Rung Lin, Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias Richter, Joseph S. DuChene, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Cora Went, Zakaria Y. Al Balushi, Deep Jariwala, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Li-Chyong Chen, Harry A. Atwater

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124 (42), 22893-22902, (2020)

Ultrafast hot-hole injection modifies hot-electron dynamics in Au/p-GaN heterostructures

Giulia Tagliabue, Joseph S. DuChene, Mohamed Abdellah, Adela Habib, David J. Gosztola, Yocefu Hattori, Wen-Hui Cheng, Kaibo Zheng, Sophie E. Canton, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Jacinto Sá, Harry A. Atwater

Nature Materials 8, 1-7, (2020)

Optical excitation of a nanoparticle Cu/p-NiO photocathode improves reaction selectivity for CO2 reduction in aqueous electrolytes

Joseph S. DuChene, Giulia Tagliabue, Alex J. Welch, Xueqian Li, Wen-Hui Cheng, and Harry A. Atwater

Nano Letters 20 (4), 2348-2358, (2020)

Synergistic amplification of short circuit current for organic solar cells via modulation of P3HT:PCBM spatial distribution with solvent treatment

Bo-Wen Yang, Meng-Yen Tsai, Wen-Hui Cheng, Jen-Sue Chen, Steve Lien-Chung Hsu, and Wei-Yang Chou

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117 (28), 14472-14478, (2013)

Patents list

Books

Chapter 6: Tuning light-matter interaction with photonic architectures for CO2 reduction.
In Circular Economy and Sustainable Energy Materials

Wen-Hui Cheng

CRC Press, 77-85, (2024), Boca Raton.

Patents

Incorporating effective transparent catalysts for photoelectrochemical application

Wen-Hui Cheng, Harry A. Atwater, Rebecca Saive, Matthias H. Richter, Sisir Yalamanchili, Michael Kelzenberg, Kelly McKenzie

US11,939,688B2, (2024)

Epitaxy-free nanowire cell process for the manufacture of photovoltaics

Phillip R. Jahelka, Harry A. Atwater, Wen-Hui Cheng, Rebecca D. Glaudell