1. Yanyi Pan, Ankita Das, Frank Glorius*, Jindong Ren*; Insights into the surface chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes, Chemical Society Reviews, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/d4cs01299b.
2. Jindong Ren‡,*, Mowpriya Das‡, Yuxiang Gao‡, Ankita Das, Andreas H. Schäfer, Harald Fuchs, Shixuan Du *, Frank Glorius*; Cooperative Use of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Thiols on a Silver Surface: A Synergetic Approach to Surface Modification, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 47, 32558–32566.
3. Jindong Ren‡,*, Mowpriya Das‡, Helena Osthues, Marvin Nyenhuis, Bertram Schulze Lam-mers, Elena Kolodzeiski, Harry Mönig, Saeed Amirjalayer*, Harald Fuchs*, Nikos L. Doltsinis*, Frank Glorius*; The Electron-Rich and Nucleophilic N-Heterocyclic Imines on Metal Surfaces: Binding Modes and Interfacial Charge Transfer, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 11, 7288–7294.
4. Zhen-Yu Wang‡, Jia-Jun Ma‡, Qianqian Chen‡, Kefan Wu, Shuigang Xu, Qing Dai, Zheng Zhu, Jindong Ren*, Hong-Jun Gao, Xiao Lin*; Visualizing localized nematic states in twisted double bilayer graphene, Nanoscale, 2024, 16: 18852-18858. (“2025 Emerging Investigators” invited).
5. Jindong Ren, Maximilian Koy, Helena Osthues, Bertram Schulze Lammers, Christian Gutheil, Marvin Nyenhuis, Qi Zheng, Yao Xiao, Li Huang, Arne Nalop, Qing Dai, Hong-Jun Gao*, Harry Mönig*, Nikos L. Doltsinis*, Harald Fuchs*, Frank Glorius*; On-surface synthesis of ballbot-type N-heterocyclic carbene polymers, Nature Chemistry, 2023, 15, 1737–1744.
6. Jindong Ren#, Matthias Freitag#, Yuxiang Gao#, Peter Bellotti, Mowpriya Das, Bertram Schulze Lammers, Harry Mönig, Yuyang Zhang, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Shixuan Du*, Harald Fuchs*, Frank Glorius*; Reversible Self-Assembly of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene on Metal Surfaces, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61: e2021151.
Before Independence:
1. Jindong Ren#, Matthias Freitag#, Christian Schwermann#, Anne Bakker, Saeed Amirjalayer, Andreas Rühling, Hong-Ying Gao, Nikos L. Doltsinis*, Frank Glorius*, Harald Fuchs*; A Unidirectional Surface-Anchored N-Heterocyclic Carbene Rotor, Nano Letters, 2020, 20(8): 5922-5928.
2. Jindong Ren, Yanan Wang, Jin Zhao*, Shijing Tan, Hrvoje Petek*; K atom promotion of O2 chemisorption on Au(111) Surface, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141(10): 4438-4444.
3. Jindong Ren, Marvin Cnudde, Dana Brünink, Stefan Buss, Constantin G.Daniliuc, Lacheng Liu, Harald Fuchs, Cristian A.Strassert*, Hong‐Ying Gao*, Nikos L.Doltsinis*; On-surface Reactive Planarization of Pt-Complexes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58(43): 15396-15400.
4. Jindong Ren#, Haiming Guo#,*, Jinbo Pan#, Yan-Fang Zhang, Yifeng Yang, Xu Wu, Shixuan Du, Min Ouyang, Hong-Jun Gao; Interatomic Spin Coupling in Manganese Clusters Registered on Graphene, Physical Review Letters, 2017, 17(119): 176806.
5. Jindong Ren#, Haiming Guo#, Jinbo Pan#, Yu Yang Zhang#, Xu Wu, Hong-Gang Luo, Shixuan Du, Sokrates T.Pantelides*, Hong-Jun Gao*; Kondo Effect of Cobalt Adatoms on a Graphene Monolayer Controlled by Substrate-Induced Ripples, Nano Letters, 2014, 14(7): 4011-4015.
6. Shijing Tan, Adam Argondizzo, Jindong Ren, Liming Liu, Jin Zhao*, Hrvoje Petek*; Plasmonic coupling at a metal/semiconductor interface, Nature Photonics, 2017, 12(11): 806-812.