Shaoxuan Ren

Principal Investigator

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Email
shaoxua3obfuscate@ualberta.ca

Assitant Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Education:

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, University of British Columbia
  • M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
  • B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Ottawa

Appointments:

  • Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, 2026-present
  • Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada, 2025-2026
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2022-2025

Publications

  1. Electrochemical Synthesis of Calcium Silicate Hydrate for Low Carbon Cement
  2. Electrolytic Pathway for Upgrading Waste CO2 into Syngas with a Carbon Capture and Utilization Energy Efficiency Greater than 50%
  3. Low-emission cement clinker precursor production, enabled by electrolytic extraction of calcium from waste cement
  4. Limestone Conversion to Cement Clinker Precursor in a Zero-Gap Electrolyzer
  5. Electrolytic cement clinker precursor production sustained through orthogonalization of ion vectors
  6. Cathode Surface pH Modulates Multicarbon Product Selectivity during the Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 Capture Solutions
  7. Electrolytic Mineralization of CO2
  8. Visualization of CO2 Electrolysis Using Optical Coherence Tomography
  9. Catalyst Aggregation Matters for Immobilized Molecular CO2RR Electrocatalysts
  10. Cement Clinker Precursor Production in an Electrolyser
  11. Electrolytic Methane Production from Reactive Carbon Solutions
  12. Conversion of Reactive Carbon Solutions into CO at Low Voltage and High Carbon Efficiency
  13. Porous Metal Electrodes Enable Efficient Electrolysis of Carbon Capture Solutions
  14. Impact of Alkali Cation Identity on the Conversion of HCO3− to CO in Bicarbonate Electrolyzers
  15. An Industrial Perspective on Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO2 Electrolysis
  16. CO2 Electrochemical Catalytic Reduction with a Highly Active Cobalt Phthalocyanine
  17. Molecular Precision in Industrial Electrosynthesis
  18. Linking Gas Diffusion Electrode Composition to CO2 Reduction in a Flow Cell
  19. Electrocatalysts Derived from Copper Complexes Transform CO into C2+ Products Effectively in a Flow Cell
  20. Molecular Electrocatalysts Can Mediate Fast, Selective CO2 Reduction in a Flow Cell