Dr Emma Lovell

Dr Emma Lovell is a Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW.

She is a researcher in the Particles and Catalysis (PartCat) Research Group. Her research focuses on developing novel catalysts for a range of applications; with a particular focus on energy and environmental catalysis. Emma completed her PhD in 2016 at UNSW developing catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion (with a research exchange at the University of Bremen). She was the recipient of the Women in Engineering Scholarship for the duration of her studies. Her PhD work focused on developing nickel based catalysts for the carbon dioxide (dry) reforming of methane.

Currently, her research focuses on developing catalytic materials for a range of different energy inputs. This includes developing catalysts for the photo/plasmon-enhanced thermal catalytic carbon dioxide methanation and the plasma-catalytic carbon dioxide methanation and nitrogen fixation as well as developing defective electrocatalysis for hydrogen evolution reaction as well as carbon dioxide reduction reactions.

Dr Lovell can be found on linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lovellemma/) and twitter (@elovelll).

Phone

0425699367

E-mail

e.lovell@unsw.edu.au

Location

Tyree Energy Technologies Building, Room 349

Journal articles | 2024

Lim M; Ma Z; O'Connell G; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Jalili R; Amal R; Daiyan R; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Ru-Induced Defect Engineering in Co3O4 Lattice for High Performance Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonium', Small, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202401333

Journal articles | 2024

O'Connell GEP; Tan TH; Yuwono JA; Wang Y; Kheradmand A; Jiang Y; Kumar PV; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Seeing the light: The role of cobalt in light-assisted CO2 methanation', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123507

Journal articles | 2024

Sun J; Zhou R; Hong J; Gao Y; Qu Z; Liu Z; Liu D; Zhang T; Zhou R; Ostrikov K; Cullen P; Lovell EC; Amal R; Jalili AR, 2024, 'Sustainable ammonia production via nanosecond-pulsed plasma oxidation and electrocatalytic reduction', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123426

Journal articles | 2024

Zhu YF; Xie B; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Sharma AS; Nielsen MP; Bendavid A; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Making light work: designing plasmonic structures for the selective photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide', EES Catalysis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00315a

Journal articles | 2023

Bui TS; Lovell EC; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2023, 'Defective Metal Oxides: Lessons from CO2RR and Applications in NOxRR', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202205814

Journal articles | 2023

Farivar GG; Manalastas W; Tafti HD; Ceballos S; Sanchez-Ruiz A; Lovell EC; Konstantinou G; Townsend CD; Srinivasan M; Pou J, 2023, 'Grid-Connected Energy Storage Systems: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Technologies', Proceedings of the IEEE, 111, pp. 397 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2022.3183289

Journal articles | 2023

Gilmore N; Koskinen I; Burr P; Obbard E; Sproul A; Konstantinou G; Bilbao J; Daiyan R; Kay M; Corkish R; Macgill I; Lovell E; Menictas C; Bruce A, 2023, 'Identifying weak signals to prepare for uncertainty in the energy sector', Heliyon, 9, pp. e21295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21295

Journal articles | 2023

Lim M; Sun J; Ma Z; Jalili R; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Amal R, 2023, 'Engineering CuOx Nanoparticles on Cu Foam for Acidic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, pp. 4936 - 4945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c00681

Journal articles | 2023

Sun J; Zhang T; Hong J; Zhou R; Masood H; Zhou R; Murphy AB; Ostrikov KK; Cullen PJ; Lovell EC; Amal R; Jalili AR, 2023, 'Insights into plasma-catalytic nitrogen fixation from catalyst microanalysis and chemical kinetics modelling', Chemical Engineering Journal, 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.143841

Journal articles | 2023

Zhang Q; Chen Y; Pan J; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2023, 'Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide through Selective Oxygen Reduction: A Carbon Innovation from Active Site Engineering to Device Design', Small, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202302338

Journal articles | 2023

Zhu YF; Xie B; Amal R; Lovell EC; Scott J, 2023, 'Light-Enhanced Conversion of CO2 to Light Olefins: Basis in Thermal Catalysis, Current Progress, and Future Prospects', Small Structures, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202200285

Journal articles | 2023

Zurrer T; Lovell E; Han Z; Liang K; Scott J; Amal R, 2023, 'Harnessing the structural attributes of NiMg-CUK-1 MOF for the dual-function capture and transformation of carbon dioxide into methane', Chemical Engineering Journal, 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140623

Journal articles | 2022

Horlyck J; Lovell E; Scott J, 2022, 'Complexities of Capturing Light for Enhancing Thermal Catalysis', Catalysis Letters, 152, pp. 619 - 628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10562-021-03669-7

Journal articles | 2022

Lovell EC; Ager JW; Kim YS; Modestino MA, 2022, 'Energy Spotlight Emergence of Membrane Electrode Assembly in Electrocatalysis', ACS Energy Letters, 7, pp. 1574 - 1576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00706

Journal articles | 2022

Lovell EC; Scott J; Bedford NM; Tan TH; Cullen PJ; Ostrikov KK; Amal R, 2022, 'Two Steps Back, One Leap Forward: Synergistic Energy Conversion in Plasmonic and Plasma Catalysis', ACS Energy Letters, 7, pp. 300 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02387

Journal articles | 2022

Saputera WH; Tan TH; Lovell EC; Rawal A; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Friedmann D; Amal R; Scott JA, 2022, 'Modulating catalytic oxygen activation over Pt-TiO2/SiO2 catalysts by defect engineering of a TiO2/SiO2 support', Catalysis Science and Technology, 12, pp. 1049 - 1059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1cy02037d

Journal articles | 2022

Tavakoli A; Rahimi K; Saghandali F; Scott J; Lovell E, 2022, 'Nanofluid preparation, stability and performance for CO2 absorption and desorption enhancement: A review', Journal of Environmental Management, 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114955

Journal articles | 2022

Zurrer T; Lovell E; Han Z; Liang K; Scott J; Amal R, 2022, 'Bimetallic RuNi-decorated Mg-CUK-1 for oxygen-tolerant carbon dioxide capture and conversion to methane', Nanoscale, 14, pp. 15669 - 15678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2nr03338k

Journal articles | 2021

Daiyan R; Tran-Phu T; Kumar P; Iputera K; Tong Z; Leverett J; Khan MHA; Asghar Esmailpour A; Jalili A; Lim M; Tricoli A; Liu RS; Lu X; Lovell E; Amal R, 2021, 'Nitrate reduction to ammonium: From CuO defect engineering to waste NOx-to-NH3 economic feasibility', Energy and Environmental Science, 14, pp. 3588 - 3598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee00594d

Journal articles | 2021

Jantarang S; Ligori S; Horlyck J; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Amal R; Scott J, 2021, 'Plasma-induced catalyst support defects for the photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide', Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14154195

Journal articles | 2021

Jantarang S; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Altering the influence of ceria oxygen vacancies in Ni/CexSiy O2for photothermal CO2methanation', Catalysis Science and Technology, 11, pp. 5297 - 5309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1cy00136a

Journal articles | 2021

Sun J; Alam D; Daiyan R; Masood H; Zhang T; Zhou R; Cullen PJ; Lovell EC; Jalili A; Amal R, 2021, 'A hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process for sustainable ammonia production', Energy and Environmental Science, 14, pp. 865 - 872, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ee03769a

Journal articles | 2021

Ullah S; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Kumar PV; Amal R; Scott J, 2021, 'Photoenhanced CO2 methanation over La2O3 promoted Co/TiO2 catalysts', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120248

Journal articles | 2021

Wu H; Kong XY; Wen X; Chai S; Lovell EC; Tang J; Ng YH, 2021, 'Metal–Organic Framework Decorated Cuprous Oxide Nanowires for Long‐lived Charges Applied in Selective Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to CH₄', Angewandte Chemie, 133, pp. 8536 - 8540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202015735

Journal articles | 2021

Wu H; Kong XY; Wen X; Chai SP; Lovell EC; Tang J; Ng YH, 2021, 'Metal–Organic Framework Decorated Cuprous Oxide Nanowires for Long-lived Charges Applied in Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, pp. 8455 - 8459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202015735

Journal articles | 2021

Xie B; Lovell E; Tan TH; Jantarang S; Yu M; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Emerging material engineering strategies for amplifying photothermal heterogeneous CO2 catalysis', Journal of Energy Chemistry, 59, pp. 108 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2020.11.005

Journal articles | 2021

Zhao Y; Jiang WJ; Zhang J; Lovell EC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2021, 'Anchoring Sites Engineering in Single-Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Energy Conversion Reactions', Advanced Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202102801

Journal articles | 2021

Zhou R; Zhou R; Alam D; Zhang T; Li W; Xia Y; Mai-Prochnow A; An H; Lovell EC; Masood H; Amal R; Ostrikov K; Cullen PJ, 2021, 'Plasmacatalytic bubbles using CeO2 for organic pollutant degradation', Chemical Engineering Journal, 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.126413

Journal articles | 2021

Zurrer T; Wong K; Horlyck J; Lovell EC; Wright J; Bedford NM; Han Z; Liang K; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Mixed-Metal MOF-74 Templated Catalysts for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture and Methanation', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202007624

Journal articles | 2020

Ahmad F; Lovell EC; Masood H; Cullen PJ; Ostrikov KK; Scott JA; Amal R, 2020, 'Low-Temperature CO2 Methanation: Synergistic Effects in Plasma-Ni Hybrid Catalytic System', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8, pp. 1888 - 1898, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06180

Journal articles | 2020

Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Huang B; Zubair M; Leverett J; Zhang Q; Lim S; Horlyck J; Tang J; Lu X; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Hart JN; Bedford NM; Amal R, 2020, 'Uncovering Atomic-Scale Stability and Reactivity in Engineered Zinc Oxide Electrocatalysts for Controllable Syngas Production', Advanced Energy Materials, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001381

Journal articles | 2020

García-García I; Lovell EC; Wong RJ; Barrio VL; Scott J; Cambra JF; Amal R, 2020, 'Silver-Based Plasmonic Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8, pp. 1879 - 1887, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06146

Journal articles | 2020

Lovell EC; Lu X; Zhang Q; Scott J; Amal R, 2020, 'From passivation to activation-tunable nickel/nickel oxide for hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis', Chemical Communications, 56, pp. 1709 - 1712, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cc07486d

Journal articles | 2020

Ullah S; Lovell EC; Wong RJ; Tan TH; Scott J; Amal R, 2020, 'Light-Enhanced CO2 Reduction to CH4 using Nonprecious Transition-Metal Catalysts', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8, pp. 5056 - 5066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06823

Journal articles | 2019

Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Bedford NM; Saputera WH; Wu KH; Lim S; Horlyck J; Ng YH; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'Modulating Activity through Defect Engineering of Tin Oxides for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', Advanced Science, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201900678

Journal articles | 2019

Daiyan R; Saputera WH; Zhang Q; Lovell E; Lim S; Ng YH; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, '3D Heterostructured Copper Electrode for Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Alcohols at Low Overpotentials', Advanced Sustainable Systems, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201800064

Journal articles | 2019

Gunawan C; Lord MS; Lovell E; Wong RJ; Jung MS; Oscar D; Mann R; Amal R, 2019, 'Oxygen-Vacancy Engineering of Cerium-Oxide Nanoparticles for Antioxidant Activity', ACS Omega, 4, pp. 9473 - 9479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b00521

Journal articles | 2019

Horlyck J; Nashira A; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Bedford N; Wei Y; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Plasma treating mixed metal oxides to improve oxidative performance via defect generation', Materials, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12172756

Journal articles | 2019

Horlyck J; Pokhrel S; Lovell E; Bedford NM; Mädler L; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Unifying double flame spray pyrolysis with lanthanum doping to restrict cobalt-aluminate formation in Co/Al2O3 catalysts for the dry reforming of methane', Catalysis Science and Technology, 9, pp. 4970 - 4980, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cy01293a

Journal articles | 2019

Horlyck J; Sara M; Lovell EC; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Effect of Metal-Support Interactions in Mixed Co/Al Catalysts for Dry Reforming of Methane', ChemCatChem, 11, pp. 3432 - 3440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201900638

Journal articles | 2019

Kumar R; Strezov V; Lovell E; Kan T; Weldekidan H; He J; Dastjerdi B; Scott J, 2019, 'Bio-oil upgrading with catalytic pyrolysis of biomass using Copper/zeolite-Nickel/zeolite and Copper-Nickel/zeolite catalysts', Bioresource Technology, 279, pp. 404 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.01.067

Journal articles | 2019

Kumar R; Strezov V; Lovell E; Kan T; Weldekidan H; He J; Jahan S; Dastjerdi B; Scott J, 2019, 'Enhanced bio-oil deoxygenation activity by Cu/zeolite and Ni/zeolite catalysts in combined in-situ and ex-situ biomass pyrolysis', Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 140, pp. 148 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2019.03.008

Journal articles | 2019

Lovell EC; Großman H; Horlyck J; Scott J; Mädler L; Amal R, 2019, 'Asymmetrical Double Flame Spray Pyrolysis-Designed SiO2/Ce0.7Zr0.3O2 for the Dry Reforming of Methane', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 25766 - 25777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b02572

Journal articles | 2019

Saputera WH; Tahini HA; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Rawal A; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Friedmann D; Smith SC; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Cooperative defect-enriched SiO2 for oxygen activation and organic dehydrogenation', Journal of Catalysis, 376, pp. 168 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2019.07.006

Journal articles | 2019

Saputera WH; Tahini HA; Sabsabi M; Tan TH; Bedford NM; Lovell E; Cui Y; Hart JN; Friedmann D; Smith SC; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Light-Induced Synergistic Multidefect Sites on TiO2/SiO2 Composites for Catalytic Dehydrogenation', ACS Catalysis, 9, pp. 2674 - 2684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04891

Journal articles | 2019

Stanley JNG; García-García I; Perfrement T; Lovell EC; Schmidt TW; Scott J; Amal R, 2019, 'Plasmonic effects on CO2 reduction over bimetallic Ni-Au catalysts', Chemical Engineering Science, 194, pp. 94 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2018.04.003

Journal articles | 2018

Daiyan R; Tan X; Chen R; Saputera WH; Tahini HA; Lovell E; Ng YH; Smith SC; Dai L; Lu X; Amal R, 2018, 'Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on a Mesoporous Carbon Catalyst with Progressively Removed Nitrogen Moieties', ACS Energy Letters, 3, pp. 2292 - 2298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01409

Journal articles | 2018

Horlyck J; Lawrey C; Lovell EC; Amal R; Scott J, 2018, 'Elucidating the impact of Ni and Co loading on the selectivity of bimetallic NiCo catalysts for dry reforming of methane', Chemical Engineering Journal, 352, pp. 572 - 580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.009

Journal articles | 2018

Jantarang S; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Scott J; Amal R, 2018, 'Role of support in photothermal carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalysed by Ni/CexTiyO2', Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 28, pp. 168 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2018.02.004

Journal articles | 2018

Lu X; Pan J; Lovell E; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2018, 'A sea-change: Manganese doped nickel/nickel oxide electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation from seawater', Energy and Environmental Science, 11, pp. 1898 - 1910, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00976g

Journal articles | 2017

Kho ET; Lovell E; Wong RJ; Scott J; Amal R, 2017, 'Manipulating ceria-titania binary oxide features and their impact as nickel catalyst supports for low temperature steam reforming of methane', Applied Catalysis A: General, 530, pp. 111 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2016.11.019

Journal articles | 2017

Kho ET; Tan TH; Lovell E; Wong RJ; Scott J; Amal R, 2017, 'A review on photo-thermal catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide', Green Energy and Environment, 2, pp. 204 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gee.2017.06.003

Journal articles | 2017

Lovell EC; Horlyck J; Scott J; Amal R, 2017, 'Flame spray pyrolysis-designed silica/ceria-zirconia supports for the carbon dioxide reforming of methane', Applied Catalysis A: General, 546, pp. 47 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2017.08.002

Journal articles | 2016

Lovell EC; Fuller A; Scott J; Amal R, 2016, 'Enhancing Ni-SiO2 catalysts for the carbon dioxide reforming of methane: Reduction-oxidation-reduction pre-treatment', APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL, 199, pp. 155 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.05.080

Journal articles | 2016

Lovell EC; Fuller A; Scott J; Amal R, 2016, 'Enhancing Ni-SiO2 catalysts for the carbon dioxide reforming of methane: Reduction-oxidation-reduction pre-treatment', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 199, pp. 155 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.05.080

Journal articles | 2015

Lovell EC; Scott J; Amal R, 2015, 'Ni-SiO2 catalysts for the carbon dioxide reforming of methane: Varying support properties by flame spray pyrolysis', Molecules, 20, pp. 4594 - 4609, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20034594

Journal articles | 2014

Lovell E; Jiang Y; Scott J; Wang F; Suhardja Y; Chen M; Huang J; Amal R, 2014, 'CO2 reforming of methane over MCM-41-supported nickel catalysts: Altering support acidity by one-pot synthesis at room temperature', Applied Catalysis A: General, 473, pp. 51 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2013.12.020

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