Selected Publications
1. Ma R.Z.*, Cao D.Y.*, Zhu C.Q.*, Tian Y.* (* equal contribution), Peng J.B., Guo J., Chen J., Li X.Z., Francisco J.S., Zeng X.C., Xu L.M., Wang E.G., and Jiang Y., Atomic imaging of edge structure and growth of a two-dimensional hexagonal ice. Nature, 577, 60–63 (2020).
2. Ma, R.Z.*, O’Connor, C. R.*, Collinge, G., Allec, S. I., Lee, M.-S. & Dohnálek, Z. The Role of Surface Hydroxyls in the Mobility of Carboxylates on Surfaces: Dynamics of Acetate on Anatase TiO2(101). J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 2542–2550 (2023).
3. O’Connor, C. R.*, Ma, R. Z.*, Collinge, G., Lee, M.-S., Kimmel, G. A. & Dohnálek, Z. Insights into Acetic Acid Binding and Ketene Formation on Anatase TiO2(101). Top Catal (2023). doi:10.1007/s11244-023-01828-1
4. Sheng S.X.*, Ma R.Z.*, Wu J.B.*, Li W.B., Kong L.J., Cong X., Cao D.Y., Hu W.Q., Gou J., Luo J.W., Cheng P., Tan P.H., Jiang Y., Chen L., and Wu K.H., The Pentagonal Nature of Self-Assembled Silicon Chains and Magic Clusters on Ag(110). Nano Lett. 18, 2937-2942 (2018).
5. Peng J.B.*, Cao D.Y.*, He Z.L.*, Guo J., Hapala P., Ma R.Z., Cheng B.W., Chen J., Xie W.J., Li X.Z., Jelinek P., Xu L.M., Gao Y.Q., Wang E.G., and Jiang Y., The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transport of sodium ions. Nature 557, 701-705 (2018).
6. Peng J.B.*, Guo J.*, Hapala P.*, Cao D.Y., Ma R.Z., Cheng B.W., Xu L.M., Ondracek M., Jelinek P., Wang E.G., and Jiang Y., Weakly perturbative imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution by atomic force microscopy. Nat. Commun. 9, 122 (2018).
7. Guo C.Y.*, Meng X.Z.*, Fu H.X.*, Wang Q.*, Wang H.M., Tian Y., Peng J.B., Ma R.Z., Weng Y.X., Meng S., Wang, E.G., and Jiang Y., Probing Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Photoexcited Polarons on a Metal-Oxide Surface with Atomic Precision, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206801 (2020)
8. Peng J.B., Guo J., Ma R.Z., Meng X.Z., and Jiang Y., Atomic-scale imaging of the dissolution of NaCl islands by water at low temperature. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 29 (2017).
9. Cao, D., Song, Y., Peng, J., Ma, R. Z., Guo, J., Chen, J., Li, X., Jiang, Y., Wang, E. & Xu, L. Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy: Weakly Perturbative Imaging of the Interfacial Water. Frontiers in Chemistry 7, (2019).
10. Peng, J., Guo, J., Ma, R. Z. & Jiang, Y. Water-solid interfaces probed by high-resolution atomic force microscopy. Surface Science Reports 77, 100549 (2022).
11. Petrik, N. G., Wang, Y., Wen, B., Wu, Y., Ma, R. Z., Dahal, A., Gao, F., Rousseau, R., Wang, Y., Kimmel, G. A., Selloni, A. & Dohnálek, Z. Conversion of Formic Acid on Single- and Nano-Crystalline Anatase TiO2(101). J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 7686–7700 (2021).
12. Arnquist, I. J., Bunker, R., Dohnalek, Z., Ma, R. Z. & Uhnak, N. Exploration of methods to remove implanted 210Pb and 210Po contamination from silicon surfaces. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A: Accel. Spectrom. Detect. Assoc. Equip. 1048, 168008 (2023).
13. Tian, Y., Song, Y., Xia, Y., Hong, J., Huang, Y., Ma, R. Z., You, S., Guan, D., Cao, D., Zhao, M., Chen, J., Song, C., Liu, K., Xu, L.-M., Gao, Y. Q., Wang, E.-G. & Jiang, Y. Nanoscale one-dimensional close packing of interfacial alkali ions driven by water-mediated attraction. Nat. Nanotechnol. 1–6 (2023). doi:10.1038/s41565-023-015509