Hang Ren

Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry

hren@utexas.edu

FNT

2.136A

Biography

Ren has been an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin since 2021. Before that, he was an assistant professor at Miami University from 2018 to 2021.

Research

The Ren electrochemistry group is interested in nanoelectrochemistry and single-entity electrochemistry. The team uses scanning electrochemical probe microscopy to study fundamental electrocatalytic processes for energy storage and conversion at the nanoscale to reveal their . We areheterogeneity and stochasticity and is devoted to developing electrochemical sensors and on-demand drug release devices for biomedical applications.

Research Areas

Energy
Materials Science
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Fields of Interest

Analytical Chemistry
Materials
Physical Chemistry

Centers and Institutes

Center for Electrochemistry

Education

Postdoc Associate, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (2016-2018)
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2016)
B.S. hon. in Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China (2011)

Publications

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Selected publications:
1. Li, M.; Wang, Y.; Blount, B.; Ren, H.*, Stochastic Local Breakdown of Oxide Film on Ni from Identical-Location Imaging: One Single Site at a Time, Nano Letters, 2022, 22 (15) 6313–6319. DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02018
2. Wang, Y; Li, M.; Gordon, E.; Ye, Z.; Ren, H.*, Nanoscale Colocalized Electrochemical and Structural Mapping of Metal Dissolution Reaction, Anal. Chem., 2022, 94, (25), 9058–9064. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01283
3. Wang, Y.; Li, M.; Ren, H.*, Voltammetric Mapping of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Pt Locally via Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy. ACS Meas. Sci. Au, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00012
4. Li, M.; Ye, K.-H.; Qiu, W.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*, Heterogeneity between and within Single Hematite Nanorods as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 12, 5247–5252 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00506
5. Blount, B.; Juarez, G.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*, iR Drop in Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy. Faraday Discuss., 2022, 233, 149 - 162. DOI: 1039/D1FD00046B
6. Ren, H.*; Edwards, M. A. *, “Stochasticity in Single-Entity Electrochemistry”. Curr. Opin. Electrochem. 2021, 25, 100632. DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2020.08.014
7. Blount, B.; Kilner, K.; Hu, H.; Gohmann, D.; Gordon, E.; Wang, Y.; Ren, H.*, Electrochemically Induced Nucleation of Nanoscopic Ionic Solid. J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124 (31), 17413–17417. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c05009
8. Wang, Y.; Gordon, E.; Ren, H.*, “Mapping the Potential of Zero Charge at Electrode-Electrolyte Interface Via a Grain by Grain Approach” Anal. Chem. 2020, 92 (3), 2859-2865. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05502
9. Wang, Y.; Gordon, E.; Ren, H. *, “Mapping the Nucleation of H2 Bubble on a Polycrystalline Pt via Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10 (14) 3887-3892. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01414
10. Edwards, M. A. *; White, H. S.; Ren, H. *, “Voltammetric Determination of the Stochastic Formation Rate and Geometry of Individual H2, N2, and O2 Bubble Nuclei.” ACS Nano 2019, 13 (6), 6330-6340. DOI:1021/acsnano.9b01015

Awards

2023 Sloan Research Fellowship
2023 NSF CAREER Award
2023 Scialog Fellow: Negative Emissions Science (NES).
2022 NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)
2022 DARPA Director’s Award
2022 UT Austin CNS Catalyst Award
2020 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2020 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award
2019 James W. and Carolyn L. Taylor MUACC Travel Award
2019 Dean’s Summer Research Award, Miami University
2015 George Ashworth Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
2014 Baxter Young Investigator Awards