代表性著作:
在Angew Chem Int Ed、J Catalysis、InorgChem、J Phys Chem、SurfaceSci等能源与化学化工领域期刊揭晓论文12篇，其中SCI收录10篇。7篇代表性论文如下：
1. Bing Liu, Jian Liu, Sicong Ma, Zhen Zhao*, Yu Chen*, Xue-Qing Gong, Weiyu Song, Aijun Duan, Guiyuan Jiang, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120(4), 2271-2283, Mechanistic Study of Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3 on W-Doped CeO2 Catalysts: Unraveling the Catalytic Cycle and the Role of Oxygen Vacancy
2. Huichao Yao, Yu Chen*, Zhen Zhao, Yuechang Wei, Zhichang Liu, Dong Zhai, Baijun Liu, Chunming Xu*, Journal of Catalysis, 2013, 305, 67-75, Periodic DFT study on mechanism of selective catalytic reduction of NO via NH3 and O2 over the V 2O5 (001) surface: Competitive sites and pathways
3. Huichao Yao, Yu Chen*, Yuechang Wei, Zhen Zhao, Zhichang Liu, Chunming Xu*, Surface Science, 2012, 606(21-22), 1739-1748, A periodic DFT study of ammonia adsorption on the V2O5 (001), V2O5 (010) and V2O5 (100) surfaces: Lewis versus Brönsted acid sites
4. Yu Chen*, Fuli Zhang, Chunming Xu, Jinsen Gao, Dong Zhai, Zhen Zhao*, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2012, 116(10), 2529-2535, Theoretical Investigation of Water-Gas Shift Reaction Catalyzed by Iron Group Carbonyl Complexes M(CO)5 (M = Fe, Ru, Os)
5. Fuli Zhang, Liang Zhao, Chunming Xu, Yu Chen*, Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49(7), 3278-3281, Theoretical Revisit of a Fe(CO)5-Catalyzed Water-Gas Shift Reaction
6. Y. Chen, M. Hartmann, M. Diedenhofen, G. Frenking*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2001, 40(11), 2051-2055, Turning a Transition State into a Minimum - The Nature of the Bonding in Diplumbylene Compounds RPbPbR (R = H, Ar)
7. Y. Chen, W. Petz, G. Frenking*, Organometallics, 2000, 19(14), 2698-2706, Is it Possible to Synthesize a Low-Valent Transition Metal Complex with Neutral Carbon Atom as Terminal Ligand? A Theoretical Study of (CO)4FeC