课题组负责人具有在国内外多个同步辐射光源十多年的研究经验，长期从事同步辐射技术及其应用研究，依托光源，发展同步辐射X射线谱学的线站装置和原位表征实验方法，拓展其在能源材料与器件研究中的应用；掌握了近常压X射线光电子能谱（APXPS）和X射线吸收/发射谱（XAS/XES）等多种同步辐射X射线谱学方法的原理和应用，独立或参与设计、安装和调试了基于APXPS和XAS技术的原位反应装置，发展了对应原位谱学表征方法学，掌握了核心表征测量技术，具有丰富的装置设计、数据分析和理论研究经验。
课题组聚焦同步辐射X射线谱学研究，取得了一系列原创性成果。负责人共发表SCI文章60余篇，总被引用5000余次，H因子33；以第一和通讯作者（含共同）发表论文16篇，包括Nature Commun.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、ACS Catal.、Nano Lett.、Energy Storage Mater.、ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces、Energy Environ. Mater.。另有合作文章发表在Science, Nat. Catal., Nat. Energy等杂志。
代表作列表
1. Yifan Ye#, Hao Yang#, Jin Qian#, Hongyang Su, Kyung-jae Lee, Tao Cheng, Hai Xiao, Junko Yano*, William A. Goddard III*, Ethan J. Crumlin*, Dramatic differences in carbon dioxide adsorption and initial steps of reduction between silver and copper, Nature Communication, 2019, 10, 1875. 固气界面，多相催化，APXPS.
2. Yifan Ye, Min-Kyu Song, Yan Xu, Kaiqi Nie, Yi-sheng Liu, Jun Feng, Xuhui Sun, Elton J. Cairns, Yuegang Zhang*, Jinghua Guo*, Lithium Nitrate: a Double-Edged Sword in the Rechargebale Lithium-Sulfur Cell, Energy Storage Materials, 2019, 16, 498-504. 固液界面，二次电池，XAS.
3. Yifan Ye#, Jin Qian#, Hao Yang#, Hongyang Su, Kyung-Jae Lee, Ane Etxebarria, Tao Cheng, Hai Xiao, Junko Yano*, William A Goddard III*, Ethan J Crumlin*, Synergy between a Silver–Copper Surface Alloy Composition and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption and Activation, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020, 12, 22, 25374-25382, 12, 23, 26607-26613. 固气界面，多相催化，APXPS.
4. Lujie Jia#, Jian Wang#, Shuaiyang Ren, Guoxi Ren, Xiang Jin, Licheng Kao, Xuefei Feng, Feipeng Yang, Qi Wang, Ludi Pan, Qingtian Li, Yi-sheng Liu, Yang Wu, Gao Liu, Jun Feng, Shoushan Fan, Yifan Ye*, Jinghua Guo*, Yuegang Zhang*, Unraveling Shuttle Effect and Suppression Strategy in Lithium/Sulfur Cells by in-situ/operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization, Energy & Environmental Materials, 2020, 0, 1-8 (Co-corresponding). 固液界面，二次电池，XAS.
5. Jin Qian#, YifanYe#, Hao Yang, Junko Yano*, Ethan J. Crumlin*, William A. Goddard III*, Intial steps in forming the electrode-electrolyte interface: H2O adsorption and complex formation on the Ag(111) surface from combining quantum mechanics calculations and ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 6946-6954. (Equal Contribution) 固气界面，多相催化，APXPS.
6. Yan Xu#, Yifan Ye#, Shuyang Zhuo, Jun Feng, Jia Li, Hao Chen, Ankun Yang, Feifei Shi, Lujie Jia, Yang Wu, Xiaoyun Yu, Per-Anders Glans-Suzuki, Yi Cui, Jinghua Guo*, Yuegang Zhang*, In-situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Investigation of the Capacity Degradation Mechanism in Mg/S Batteries. Nano Letters, 2019, 19, 5, 2928-2934 (Equal Contribution) 固液界面，二次电池，XAS.
7. Yifan Ye, Hongyang Su, Kyung-Jae Lee, David Larson, Carlos Valero-Vidal, Monika Blum, Junko Yano*, Ethan J. Crumlin*, Carbon Dioxide Adsorption and Activation on Gallium Phosphide Surface Monitored by Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 accepted. 固气界面，多相催化，APXPS.
8. Wenshou Wang#, Yifan Ye#, Ji Feng, Miaofeng Chi, Jinghua Guo, Yading Yin, Enhanced Photoreversible Color Switching of Redox Dyes Catalyzed by Barium-Doped TiO2 Nanocrystals, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 4, 1321-1326. (Equal Contribution) 结构表征，XAS.
9. Leijie Zhang, Runhua Chen, Yi Tu, Xiaoyu Gong, Xu Cao, Qian Xu, Yu Li, Bangjiao Ye, Yifan Ye*, and Junfa Zhu*, Revealing the Crystal Facet Effect of Ceria in Pd/CeO2 Catalysts toward the Selective Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 4, 2202-2213.
10. Xiangru Wei, Grayson Johnson, Yifan Ye*, Meiyang Cui, Shen-Wei Yu, Yihua Ran, Jun Cai, Zhi Liu, Xi Chen, Wenpei Gao, Paul J. L. Bean, Weijie Zhang, Tommy Yunpu Zhao, Frédéric A. Perras, Ethan J. Crumlin, Xu Zhang, Robert J. Davis, Zhangxiong Wu*, and Sen Zhang*. Surfactants Used in Colloidal Synthesis Modulate Ni Nanoparticle Surface Evolution for Selective CO2 Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 26, 14298–14306.