Dr Cui Ying Toe
Lecturer

Dr Cui Ying Toe

Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering

Research and Teaching Experience

2018-present: Research Associate, Particles and Catalysis Research Group, UNSW

2019-present: Guest Lecturer (School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW)

2015-2018: Tutor and Assessor (School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW)

2017: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Solar Fuel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany

 

Education

2014-2018: PhD in Chemical Engineering, Particles and Catalysis Research Group, UNSW

2010-2014: Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, University Sains Malaysia (USM)
Phone
+61-2-93854340
E-mail
c.toe@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 302, Lvl 3, Tyree Energy Technologies Building

Publications

  • Journal articles | 2021
    Chung HY; Toe CY; Chen W; Wen X; Wong RJ; Amal R; Abdi FF; Ng YH, 2021, 'Manipulating the Fate of Charge Carriers with Tungsten Concentration: Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation of Bi2WO6', Small, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202102023
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lu X; Chen W; Yao Y; Wen X; Hart JN; Tsounis C; Ying Toe C; Scott J; Ng YH, 2021, 'Photogenerated charge dynamics of CdS nanorods with spatially distributed MoS2 for photocatalytic hydrogen generation', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127709
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tran-Phu T; Fusco Z; Di Bernardo I; Lipton-Duffin J; Toe CY; Daiyan R; Gengenbach T; Lin CH; Bo R; Nguyen HT; Barca GMJ; Wu T; Chen H; Amal R; Tricoli A, 2021, 'Understanding the Role of Vanadium Vacancies in BiVO4for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 33, pp. 3553 - 3565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04866
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhou S; Sun K; Huang J; Lu X; Xie B; Zhang D; Hart JN; Toe CY; Hao X; Amal R, 2021, 'Accelerating Electron-Transfer and Tuning Product Selectivity Through Surficial Vacancy Engineering on CZTS/CdS for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction', Small, pp. e2100496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202100496
    Journal articles | 2021
    Toe CY; Tsounis C; Zhang J; Masood H; Gunawan D; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Advancing photoreforming of organics: Highlights on photocatalyst and system designs for selective oxidation reactions', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 14, pp. 1140 - 1175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ee03116j
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zheng Z; Zhang K; Toe CY; Amal R; Zhang X; McCarthy DT; Deletic A, 2021, 'Stormwater herbicides removal with a solar-driven advanced oxidation process: A feasibility investigation', Water Research, vol. 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116783
    Journal articles | 2020
    Wu H; Tan HL; Toe CY; Scott J; Wang L; Amal R; Ng YH, 2020, 'Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Systems: Similarities and Differences', Advanced Materials, vol. 32, pp. e1904717, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201904717
    Journal articles | 2020
    Wu H; Zheng Z; Toe CY; Wen X; Hart JN; Amal R; Ng YH, 2020, 'A pulse electrodeposited amorphous tunnel layer stabilises Cu2O for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting under visible-light irradiation', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 8, pp. 5638 - 5646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ta00629g
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu Y; Yang J; Liu Y; Zheng J; Lee W; Shi J; Horlyck J; Xie J; Tay YY; Tan TT; Yu D; Mole R; McIntyre G; Zhang C; Toe CY; Waite TD; Scott J; Wang Y; Wu T; Han S; Li S, 2020, 'Manipulation of planar oxygen defect arrangements in multifunctional magnèli titanium oxide hybrid systems: From energy conversion to water treatment', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 13, pp. 5080 - 5096, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ee02550j
    Journal articles | 2020
    Gao W; Liang S; Wang R; Jiang Q; Zhang Y; Zheng Q; Xie B; Toe CY; Zhu X; Wang J; Huang L; Gao Y; Wang Z; Jo C; Wang Q; Wang L; Liu Y; Louis B; Scott J; Roger AC; Amal R; He H; Park SE, 2020, 'Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: State of the art and future challenges', Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 49, pp. 8584 - 8686, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00025f
    Journal articles | 2020
    Wu X; Toe CY; Su C; Ng YH; Amal R; Scott J, 2020, 'Preparation of Bi-based photocatalysts in the form of powdered particles and thin films: A review', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 8, pp. 15302 - 15318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ta01180k
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lu X; Toe CY; Ji F; Chen W; Wen X; Wong RJ; Seidel J; Scott J; Hart JN; Ng YH, 2020, 'Light-Induced Formation of MoO xS y Clusters on CdS Nanorods as Cocatalyst for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 12, pp. 8324 - 8332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b21810
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tsounis C; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Wong RJ; Toe CY; Amal R; Scott J, 2020, 'Tuning the Selectivity of LaNiO3 Perovskites for CO2 hydrogenation through potassium substitution', Catalysts, vol. 10, pp. 409 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/catal10040409
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma Z; Tsounis C; Kumar PV; Han Z; Wong RJ; Toe CY; Zhou S; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Ng YH; Amal R, 2020, 'Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction of Cu@CuxO Nanoparticles Decorated on 3D Vertical Graphene with Intrinsic sp3-type Defect', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201910118
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lu X; Hart JN; Yao Y; Toe CY; Scott J; Ng YH, 2020, 'Cu2O photocatalyst: Activity enhancement driven by concave surface', Materials Today Energy, vol. 16, pp. 100422 - 100422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2020.100422
    Journal articles | 2019
    Toe CY; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2019, 'Recent advances in suppressing the photocorrosion of cuprous oxide for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical energy conversion', Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, vol. 40, pp. 191 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2018.10.001
    Journal articles | 2019
    Masood H; Toe CY; Teoh WY; Sethu V; Amal R, 2019, 'Machine Learning for Accelerated Discovery of Solar Photocatalysts', ACS Catalysis, vol. 9, pp. 11774 - 11787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b02531
    Journal articles | 2019
    Park CK; Gharavi PSM; Kurnia F; Zhang Q; Toe CY; Al-Farsi M; Allan NL; Yao Y; Xie L; He J; Ng YH; Valanoor N; Hart JN, 2019, 'GaP-ZnS Multilayer Films: Visible-Light Photoelectrodes by Interface Engineering', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 123, pp. 3336 - 3342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10797
    Journal articles | 2018
    Toe CY; Zheng Z; Wu H; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2018, 'Photocorrosion of Cuprous Oxide in Hydrogen Production: Rationalising Self-Oxidation or Self-Reduction', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 57, pp. 13613 - 13617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201807647
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wu H; Li S; Lu X; Toe CY; Chung HY; Tang Y; Lu X; Amal R; Li L; Ng YH, 2018, 'Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3O4 Nanocrystals on One-Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation', ChemPlusChem, vol. 83, pp. 934 - 940, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800218
    Journal articles | 2018
    Toe CY; Zheng Z; Wu H; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2018, 'Transformation of Cuprous Oxide into Hollow Copper Sulfide Cubes for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, pp. 14072 - 14081, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b01169
    Journal articles | 2018
    Toe CY; Zheng Z; Wu H; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2018, 'Photocorrosion of Cuprous Oxide in Hydrogen Production: Rationalising Self-Oxidation or Self-Reduction', Angewandte Chemie, vol. 130, pp. 13801 - 13805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.201807647
    Journal articles | 2018
    Li S; Li L; Tang Y; Toe CY; Wu H; Chung HY; Amal R; Liu X; Lu X; Ng YH, 2018, 'Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3O4 Nanocrystals on One-Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation', CHEMPLUSCHEM, vol. 83, pp. 889 - 889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800477
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wu H; Li S; Lu X; Toe CY; Chung HY; Tang Y; Lu X; Amal R; Li L; Ng YH, 2018, 'Front Cover: Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3 O4 Nanocrystals on One-Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation (ChemPlusChem 10/2018)', ChemPlusChem, vol. 83, pp. 886 - 886, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800452
    Journal articles | 2017
    Toe CY; Tan HL; Boyer C; Rawal A; Thickett SC; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2017, 'Photo-driven synthesis of polymer-coated platinized ZnO nanoparticles with enhanced photoelectrochemical charge transportation', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 5, pp. 4568 - 4575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ta10665j
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jing L; Shim K; Toe CY; Fang T; Zhao C; Amal R; Sun KN; Kim JH; Ng YH, 2016, 'Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile-Ionic Liquid Nanofibers for Superior PM2.5 Capture Capacity', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 8, pp. 7030 - 7036, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b12313
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Gao W; Liang S; Wang R; Jiang Q; Zhang Y; Zheng Q; Xie B; Toe CY; Zhu X; Wang J; Huang L; Gao Y; Wang Z; Jo C; Wang Q; Wang L; Liu Y; Louis B; Scott J; Roger AC; Amal R; He H; Park SE, 2020, 'Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: State of the art and future challenges', Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 49, pp. 8584 - 8686, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00025f
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tran-Phu T; Fusco Z; Di Bernardo I; Lipton-Duffin J; Toe CY; Daiyan R; Gengenbach T; Lin CH; Bo R; Nguyen HT; Barca GMJ; Wu T; Chen H; Amal R; Tricoli A, 2021, 'Understanding the Role of Vanadium Vacancies in BiVO4for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 33, pp. 3553 - 3565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04866

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Dr. Toe is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate working on heterogeneous photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis. Her doctoral research is the studies of copper-based photocatalysts with well-defined morphologies for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical applications, while her current research interests are as below:

  1. Simultaneous production of hydrogen and value-added organic from photocatalytic reforming of organic waste.
  2. Photoelectrochemical selective reforming and CO2 reduction reactions.
  3. Machine learning for photocatalyst discovery