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Journal articles | 2023
Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu
2
O Initial Low‐ and High‐Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO
2
Reduction Reaction (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2023)', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 33, pp. 2370071 - 2370071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202370071
Journal articles | 2023
Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low- and High-Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction', Advanced Functional Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202210938
Journal articles | 2023
Ma Z; Wan T; Zhang D; Yuwono JA; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Chou YH; Lu X; Kumar PV; Ng YH; Chu D; Toe CY; Han Z; Amal R, 2023, 'Atomically Dispersed Cu Catalysts on Sulfide-Derived Defective Ag Nanowires for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', ACS Nano, vol. 17, pp. 2387 - 2398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c09473
Journal articles | 2023
Zhang D; Mitchell E; Lu X; Chu D; Shang L; Zhang T; Amal R; Han Z, 2023, 'Metal-free carbon-based catalysts design for oxygen reduction reaction towards hydrogen peroxide: From 3D to 0D', Materials Today, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2023.02.004
Journal articles | 2022
Lin Z; Zhang Q; Pan J; Tsounis C; Esmailpour AA; Xi S; Yang HY; Han Z; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2022, 'Atomic Co decorated free-standing graphene electrode assembly for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in acid', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 15, pp. 1172 - 1182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee02884g
Journal articles | 2022
Rong C; Shen X; Wang Y; Thomsen L; Zhao T; Li Y; Lu X; Amal R; Zhao C, 2022, 'Electronic Structure Engineering of Single-Atom Ru Sites via Co–N4 Sites for Bifunctional pH-Universal Water Splitting', Advanced Materials, vol. 34, pp. e2110103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202110103
Journal articles | 2022
Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López-Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron-Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 61, pp. e202206915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202206915
Journal articles | 2022
Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López‐Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron‐Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie, vol. 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202206915
Journal articles | 2022
Tsounis C; Subhash B; Kumar PV; Bedford NM; Zhao Y; Shenoy J; Ma Z; Zhang D; Toe CY; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Lu X; Dai L; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Pt Single Atom Electrocatalysts at Graphene Edges for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202203067
Journal articles | 2022
Zhang D; Tsounis C; Ma Z; Djaidiguna D; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Lu X; Chu D; Amal R; Han Z, 2022, 'Highly Selective Metal-Free Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide on Functionalized Vertical Graphene Edges', Small, vol. 18, pp. 2105082 - 2105082, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105082
Journal articles | 2022
Zhao Y; Kumar PV; Tan X; Lu X; Zhu X; Jiang J; Pan J; Xi S; Yang HY; Ma Z; Wan T; Chu D; Jiang W; Smith SC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2022, 'Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis', Nature Communications, vol. 13, pp. 2430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30155-4
Journal articles | 2022
Zhou Y; Zhou Z; Hu L; Tian R; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Chen F; Li M; Wan T; Han Z; Ma Z; Lu X; Cazorla C; Wu T; Chu D, 2022, 'A facile approach to tailor electrocatalytic properties of MnO2 through tuning phase transition, surface morphology and band structure', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 438, pp. 135561 - 135561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.135561
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, vol. 14, pp. 3588 - 3598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee00594d
Journal articles | 2021
Kabir II; Sheppard LR; Shahmiri R; Liu R; Le A; Lu X; Hanaor D; Chen WF; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Correction to: Contamination of TiO2 thin films spin coated on rutile and soda–lime–silica substrates (Journal of Materials Science, (2020), 55, 19, (8061-8087), 10.1007/s10853-020-04592-9)', Journal of Materials Science, vol. 56, pp. 17874 - 17875, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06475-z
Journal articles | 2021
Kim S; Singh G; Sathish CI; Panigrahi P; Daiyan R; Lu X; Sugi Y; Kim IY; Vinu A, 2021, 'Tailoring the Pore Size, Basicity, and Binding Energy of Mesoporous C3N5 for CO2 Capture and Conversion', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol. 16, pp. 3999 - 4005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asia.202101069
Journal articles | 2021
Leverett J; Daiyan R; Gong L; Iputera K; Tong Z; Qu J; Ma Z; Zhang Q; Cheong S; Cairney J; Liu RS; Lu X; Xia Z; Dai L; Amal R, 2021, 'Designing Undercoordinated Ni-Nxand Fe-Nxon Holey Graphene for Electrochemical CO2Conversion to Syngas', ACS Nano, vol. 15, pp. 12006 - 12018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c03293
Journal articles | 2021
Pam ME; Yan D; Yu J; Fang D; Guo L; Li XL; Li TC; Lu X; Ang LK; Amal R; Han Z; Yang HY, 2021, 'Microstructural Engineering of Cathode Materials for Advanced Zinc-Ion Aqueous Batteries', Advanced Science, vol. 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202002722
Journal articles | 2021
Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu K; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction (Adv. Energy Mater. 17/2021)', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, pp. 2170067 - 2170067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202170067
Journal articles | 2021
Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu KH; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, pp. 2100303 - 2100303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202100303
Journal articles | 2021
Zhang Q; Zhe Ru ZL; Daiyan R; Kumar P; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2021, 'Surface reconstruction enabled efficient hydrogen generation on a cobalt-iron phosphate electrocatalyst in neutral water', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 13, pp. 53798 - 53809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14588
Journal articles | 2021
Zhang X; Fan J; Lu X; Han Z; Cazorla C; Hu L; Wu T; Chu D, 2021, 'Bridging NiCo layered double hydroxides and Ni3S2 for bifunctional electrocatalysts: the role of vertical graphene', Chemical Engineering Journal, pp. 129048, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.129048
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, vol. 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202102801
Journal articles | 2021
Zhao Y; Zhang J; Xie Y; Sun B; Jiang J; Jiang WJ; Xi S; Yang HY; Yan K; Wang S; Guo X; Li P; Han Z; Lu X; Liu H; Wang G, 2021, 'Constructing Atomic Heterometallic Sites in Ultrathin Nickel-Incorporated Cobalt Phosphide Nanosheets via a Boron-Assisted Strategy for Highly Efficient Water Splitting', Nano Letters, vol. 21, pp. 823 - 832, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04569
Journal articles | 2021
Zhou Y; Qi H; Yang J; Bo Z; Huang F; Islam MS; Lu X; Dai L; Amal R; Wang CH; Han Z, 2021, 'Two-birds-one-stone: Multifunctional supercapacitors beyond traditional energy storage', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 14, pp. 1854 - 1896, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ee03167d
Journal articles | 2021
Zhu X; Tan X; Wu K; Haw S; Pao C; Su B; Jiang J; Smith SC; Chen J; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the
d
‐Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning', Angewandte Chemie, vol. 133, pp. 22082 - 22088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202107790
Journal articles | 2021
Zhu X; Tan X; Wu KH; Haw SC; Pao CW; Su BJ; Jiang J; Smith SC; Chen JM; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the d-Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 60, pp. 21911 - 21917, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202107790
Journal articles | 2020
Daiyan R; Chen R; Kumar P; Bedford NM; Qu J; Cairney JM; Lu X; Amal R, 2020, 'Tunable Syngas Production through CO2 Electroreduction on Cobalt-Carbon Composite Electrocatalyst', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 12, pp. 9307 - 9315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b21216
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, vol. 10, pp. 2001381 - 2001381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001381
Journal articles | 2020
Daiyan R; Saputera WH; Masood H; Leverett J; Lu X; Amal R, 2020, 'A Disquisition on the Active Sites of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Value-Added Chemicals and Fuel', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 10, pp. 1902106 - 1902106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902106
Journal articles | 2020
Daiyan R; Zhu X; Tong Z; Gong L; Razmjou A; Liu RS; Xia Z; Lu X; Dai L; Amal R, 2020, 'Transforming active sites in nickel–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO', Nano Energy, vol. 78, pp. 105213 - 105213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105213
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, vol. 56, pp. 1709 - 1712, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cc07486d
Journal articles | 2020
Lu X; Zhang Q; Ng YH; Zhao C, 2020, 'Reversible ternary nickel-cobalt-iron catalysts for intermittent water electrolysis', EcoMat, vol. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12012
Journal articles | 2020
Rana M; Kim J; Peng L; Lim H; Kaiser R; Ran L; Luo B; Han Z; Hossain MSA; Lu X; Gentle I; Yamauchi Y; Knibbe R, 2020, 'Impact of Micropores and Dopants to Mitigate Lithium Polysulfides Shuttle over High Surface Area of ZIF-8 Derived Nanoporous Carbons', ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 3, pp. 5523 - 5532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c00509
Journal articles | 2020
Tsounis C; Lu X; Bedford NM; Subhash B; Thomsen L; Zhang Q; Ma Z; Ostrikov K; Bendavid A; Scott JA; Amal R; Han Z, 2020, 'Valence Alignment of Mixed Ni-Fe Hydroxide Electrocatalysts through Preferential Templating on Graphene Edges for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution', ACS Nano, vol. 14, pp. 11327 - 11340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c03380
Journal articles | 2020
Zhang Q; Tan X; Bedford NM; Han Z; Thomsen L; Smith S; Amal R; Lu X, 2020, 'Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production', Nature Communications, vol. 11, pp. 4181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17782-5
Journal articles | 2020
Zhu X; Hu C; Amal R; Dai L; Lu X, 2020, 'Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc-air batteries: Progress, mechanism, and opportunities', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 13, pp. 4536 - 4563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ee02800b
Journal articles | 2020
Zhu X; Zhang D; Chen CJ; Zhang Q; Liu RS; Xia Z; Dai L; Amal R; Lu X, 2020, 'Harnessing the interplay of Fe–Ni atom pairs embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis', Nano Energy, vol. 71, pp. 104597 - 104597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104597
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, vol. 6, pp. 1900678 - 1900678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201900678
Journal articles | 2019
Daiyan R; Lu X; Tan X; Zhu X; Chen R; Smith SC; Amal R, 2019, 'Antipoisoning nickel-carbon electrocatalyst for practical electrochemical co2 reduction to CO', ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 2, pp. 8002 - 8009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b01470
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, vol. 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201800064
Journal articles | 2019
Lu X; Tan X; Zhang Q; Daiyan R; Pan J; Chen R; Tahini HA; Wang DW; Smith SC; Amal R, 2019, 'Versatile electrocatalytic processes realized by Ni, Co and Fe alloyed core coordinated carbon shells', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 7, pp. 12154 - 12165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta01723b
Journal articles | 2019
Zhang Q; Bedford NM; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell Made Up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201901312
Journal articles | 2019
Zhang Q; Webster RF; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'Ultrathin Fe-N-C Nanosheets Coordinated Fe-Doped CoNi Alloy Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Water Splitting', Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, vol. 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.201800252
Journal articles | 2019
Zhao S; Lu X; Wang L; Gale J; Amal R, 2019, 'Carbon-Based Metal-Free Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen for Synthesis of Ammonia at Ambient Conditions', Advanced Materials, vol. 31, pp. e1805367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805367
Journal articles | 2019
Zhu X; Amal R; Lu X, 2019, 'N,P Co-Coordinated Manganese Atoms in Mesoporous Carbon for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction', Small, vol. 15, pp. e1804524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201804524
Journal articles | 2019
Zhu X; Tan X; Wu KH; Chiang CL; Lin YC; Lin YG; Wang DW; Smith S; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'N,P co-coordinated Fe species embedded in carbon hollow spheres for oxygen electrocatalysis', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 7, pp. 14732 - 14742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta03011e
Journal articles | 2018
Daiyan R; Lu X; Saputera WH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2018, 'Highly Selective Reduction of CO2 to Formate at Low Overpotentials Achieved by a Mesoporous Tin Oxide Electrocatalyst', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 1670 - 1679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02913
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, vol. 3, pp. 2292 - 2298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01409
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, vol. 11, pp. 1898 - 1910, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00976g
Journal articles | 2018
Sabri M; King HJ; Gummow RJ; Lu X; Zhao C; Oelgemöller M; Chang SLY; Hocking RK, 2018, 'Oxidant or Catalyst for Oxidation? A Study of How Structure and Disorder Change the Selectivity for Direct versus Catalytic Oxidation Mediated by Manganese(III,IV) Oxides', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 30, pp. 8244 - 8256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03661
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 | 2017
Choudhury MH; Ciampi S; Lu X; Kashi MB; Zhao C; Gooding JJ, 2017, 'Spatially confined electrochemical activity at a non-patterned semiconductor electrode', Electrochimica Acta, vol. 242, pp. 240 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.04.177
Journal articles | 2017
Daiyan R; Lu X; Ng YH; Amal R, 2017, 'Liquid Hydrocarbon Production from CO2: Recent Development in Metal-Based Electrocatalysis', ChemSusChem, vol. 10, pp. 4342 - 4358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201701631
Journal articles | 2017
Daiyan R; Lu X; Ng YH; Amal R, 2017, 'Surface engineered tin foil for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to formate', Catalysis Science and Technology, vol. 7, pp. 2542 - 2550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7cy00246g
Journal articles | 2017
Lu X; Tan X; Wang DW; Ng YH; Tahini HA; Tan H; Yan W; Smith SC; Amal R, 2017, 'Nitrogen Doped Carbon Nanosheets Coupled Nickel–Carbon Pyramid Arrays Toward Efficient Evolution of Hydrogen', Advanced Sustainable Systems, vol. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201700032
Journal articles | 2016
Lu X; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2016, 'Highly Selective and Stable Reduction of CO2to CO by a Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Carbon Nanotube Composite Electrocatalyst', Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 22, pp. 11991 - 11996, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201601674
Journal articles | 2016
Weremfo A; Lu X; Carter P; Hibbert DB; Zhao C, 2016, 'Modelling an electrochemically roughened porous platinum electrode for water oxidation', Chemical Communications, vol. 52, pp. 4068 - 4071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cc09947a
Journal articles | 2016
Xiao C; Li Y; Lu X; Zhao C, 2016, 'Bifunctional Porous NiFe/NiCo2O4/Ni Foam Electrodes with Triple Hierarchy and Double Synergies for Efficient Whole Cell Water Splitting', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 26, pp. 3515 - 3523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201505302
Journal articles | 2015
Lu X; Chan HM; Sun CL; Tseng CM; Zhao C, 2015, 'Interconnected core-shell carbon nanotube-graphene nanoribbon scaffolds for anchoring cobalt oxides as bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 3, pp. 13371 - 13376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ta02967h
Journal articles | 2015
Lu X; Yim WL; Suryanto BHR; Zhao C, 2015, 'Electrocatalytic oxygen evolution at surface-oxidized multiwall carbon nanotubes', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 137, pp. 2901 - 2907, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja509879r
Journal articles | 2015
Lu X; Zhao C, 2015, 'Electrodeposition of hierarchically structured three-dimensional nickel-iron electrodes for efficient oxygen evolution at high current densities', Nature Communications, vol. 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7616
Journal articles | 2014
Lu X; Ng YH; Zhao C, 2014, 'Gold nanoparticles embedded within mesoporous cobalt oxide enhance electrochemical oxygen evolution', ChemSusChem, vol. 7, pp. 82 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201300975
Journal articles | 2014
Xiao C; Lu X; Zhao C, 2014, 'A simple and reliable method for determining the delamination degree of nitrate and glycine intercalated LDHs in formamide', Chemical Communications, vol. 50, pp. 10122 - 10125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4cc04922e
Journal articles | 2014
Zhao C; Xiao C; Chan HM; Lu X, 2014, 'Decorating semiconductor silver-tetracyanoquinodimethane nanowires with silver nanoparticles from ionic liquids', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 67, pp. 213 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH13393
Journal articles | 2013
Chen Y; Cao Y; Lu X; Zhao C; Yan C; Mu T, 2013, 'Water sorption in protic ionic liquids: Correlation between hygroscopicity and polarity', New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 37, pp. 1959 - 1967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3nj00213f
Journal articles | 2013
Khan A; Lu X; Aldous L; Zhao C, 2013, 'Oxygen reduction reaction in room temperature protic ionic liquids', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 117, pp. 18334 - 18342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp405759j
Journal articles | 2013
Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Controlled electrochemical intercalation, exfoliation and in situ nitrogen doping of graphite in nitrate-based protic ionic liquids', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 15, pp. 20005 - 20009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3cp53917b
Journal articles | 2013
Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Highly efficient and robust oxygen evolution catalysts achieved by anchoring nanocrystalline cobalt oxides onto mildly oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 1, pp. 12053 - 12059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ta12912h
Journal articles | 2013
Suryanto BHR; Lu X; Chan HM; Zhao C, 2013, 'Controlled electrodeposition of cobalt oxides from protic ionic liquids for electrocatalytic water oxidation', RSC Advances, vol. 3, pp. 20936 - 20942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ra43614d
Journal articles | 2013
Suryanto BHR; Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Layer-by-layer assembly of transparent amorphous Co3O 4 nanoparticles/graphene composite electrodes for sustained oxygen evolution reaction', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 1, pp. 12726 - 12731, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ta12672b
Journal articles | 2012
Gan Q; Lu X; Dong W; Yuan Y; Qian J; Li Y; Shi J; Liu C, 2012, 'Endosomal pH-activatable magnetic nanoparticle-capped mesoporous silica for intracellular controlled release', Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 22, pp. 15960 - 15968, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2jm32020g
Journal articles | 2012
Lu X; Burrell G; Separovic F; Zhao C, 2012, 'Electrochemistry of Room Temperature Protic Ionic Liquids: A Critical Assessment for Use as Electrolytes in Electrochemical Applications', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 116, pp. 9160 - 9170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp304735p
Journal articles | 2011
Gan Q; Lu X; Yuan Y; Qian J; Zhou H; Lu X; Shi J; Liu C, 2011, 'A magnetic, reversible pH-responsive nanogated ensemble based on Fe3O4 nanoparticles-capped mesoporous silica', Biomaterials, vol. 32, pp. 1932 - 1942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.11.020
Journal articles | 2009
Lu X; Sun F; Wang J; Zhong J; Dong Q, 2009, 'A facile route to prepare organic/inorganic hybrid nanomaterials by 'click chemistry'', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, vol. 30, pp. 2116 - 2120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.200900356
Awards and Honours
Bloom-Gutmann Prize (2012) from Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).
ARC DECRA Fellow (2017-2019).
UNSW Scientia Fellow (2019-2022).
Research Activities and Current Projects
1. Development of cost-effective and active catalyst for electrochemical energy conversion reactions.
2. Fundamental study of electrocatalysis with combined computational and experimental techniques.
3. Design and fabrication of energy devices (water/CO2 electrolysers, fuel cell stacks, metal-air batteries) for potential industrial applications.
4. Control the geometric and electronic effects of single atom catalysts for selectivity and activity enhancements.
5. Integration of the energy devices with state-of-the-art photovoltaic (PV) cells to produce renewable chemicals and fuels.
Recent Selected Publications:
Y. Zhao, P.V. Kumar, X. Tan, X.X. Lu, X. Zhu, J. Jiang, J. Pan, S. Xi, H. Y. Yang, Z. Ma, T. Wan, D. Chu, W. Jiang, S.C. Smith, R. Amal, Z. Han, X. Lu, Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 2430.
Z. Lin, Q. Zhang, J. Pan, C. Tsounis, A.A. Esmailpour, S. Xi, Y.H. Yang, Z. Han, J. Yun, R. Amal, X. Lu, Atomic Co decorated free-standing graphene electrode assembly for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in acid, Energy & Environmental Science, 2022, 15, 1172-1182.
Q. Zhang, P. Kumar, X. Zhu, R. Daiyan, N.M. Bedford, K. Wu, Z. Han, T. Zhang, R. Amal, X. Lu, Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction, Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11, 2100303.
Y. Zhao, W.-J. Jiang, J. Zhang, E.C. Lovell, R. Amal, Z. Han, X. Lu, Anchoring Sites Engineering in Single-Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Energy Conversion Reactions, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2102801.
X. Zhu, X. Tan, K.-H. Wu, S.-C. Haw, C.-W. Pao, B.-J. Su, J. Jiang, S.C. Smith, J.-M. Chen, R. Amal, X. Lu, Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the d-Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2021, 60, 21911-21917.
Q. Zhang, X. Tan, N.M. Bedford, Z. Han, L. Thomsen, S. Smith, R. Amal, X. Lu, Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production, Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4181.
X. Zhu, C. Hu, R. Amal, L. Dai, X. Lu, Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc-air batteries: progress, mechanism, and opportunities, Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 4536-4563.
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