Associate Professor Xunyu Lu

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry (School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Oct 2014)

Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2022 - now)
Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney (01 July 2019 - 31 Dec 2022)
Scientia Fellow, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2019 - now)
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2019)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016)

Teaching

CEIC2009 Materials and Energy Balances in the Chemical Process Industry.
CEIC2000 Materials and Energy Systems.

Phone

+61 2 93859793

E-mail

xunyu.lu@unsw.edu.au

Location

Faculty of Engineering Rm 352, Tyree Energy Technology Building

Journal articles | 2023

Chi Y; Kumar PV; Zheng J; Kong C; Yu R; Johnston L; Ghasemian MB; Rahim MA; Kumeria T; Chu D; Lu X; Mao G; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Tang J, 2023, 'Liquid-Metal Solvents for Designing Hierarchical Nanoporous Metals at Low Temperatures', ACS Nano, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c04585

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, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202210938

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 (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2023)', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, pp. 2370071 - 2370071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202370071

Journal articles | 2023

Lin Z; Han C; O'Connell GEP; Lu X, 2023, 'Recent Progress on Electrode Design for Efficient Electrochemical Valorisation of CO2, O2, and N2', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62, pp. e202301435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202301435

Journal articles | 2023

Lin Z; Han C; O'Connell GEP; Lu X, 2023, 'Recent Progress on Electrode Design for Efficient Electrochemical Valorisation of CO₂, O₂, and N₂', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202301435

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, 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, 63, pp. 339 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2023.02.004

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202302338

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, 15, pp. 1172 - 1182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee02884g

Journal articles | 2022

Ma Z; Tsounis C; Toe CY; Kumar PV; Subhash B; Xi S; Yang HY; Zhou S; Lin Z; Wu KH; Wong RJ; Thomsen L; Bedford NM; Lu X; Ng YH; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Reconstructing Cu Nanoparticle Supported on Vertical Graphene Surfaces via Electrochemical Treatment to Tune the Selectivity of CO2Reduction toward Valuable Products', ACS Catalysis, 12, pp. 4792 - 4805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c05431

Journal articles | 2022

Peng L; Min J; Bendavid A; Chu D; Lu X; Amal R; Han Z, 2022, 'Stabilizing the Unstable: Chromium Coating on NiMo Electrode for Enhanced Stability in Intermittent Water Electrolysis', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 40822 - 40833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c09004

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, 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, 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, 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, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202203067

Journal articles | 2022

Xiao H; He J; Lu X; Wang F; Guo Y, 2022, 'Bandgap-engineered ferroelectric single-crystalline NBT-BT based nanocomposites with excellent visible light-ultrasound catalytic performance', Chemosphere, 306, pp. 135543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135543

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

Zhang X; Fan J; Lu X; Han Z; Cazorla C; Hu L; Wu T; Chu D, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Bridging NiCo layered double hydroxides and Ni3S2 for bifunctional electrocatalysts: The role of vertical graphene” [Chem. Eng. J. 415 (2021) 129048](S1385894721006392)(10.1016/j.cej.2021.129048)', Chemical Engineering Journal, 418, pp. 129448 - 129448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.129448

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

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 7, pp. 12154 - 12165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta01723b

Journal articles | 2019

Suzuki Y; Xie Z; Lu X; Cheng YW; Amal R; Ng YH, 2019, 'Cadmium sulfide Co-catalyst reveals the crystallinity impact of nickel oxide photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44, pp. 20851 - 20856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.06.088

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 3, pp. 2292 - 2298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01409

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, 83, pp. 889 - 889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800477

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 | 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, 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, 'Front Cover: Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co₃O₄ Nanocrystals on One‐Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation (ChemPlusChem 10/2018)', ChemPlusChem, 83, pp. 886 - 886, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800452

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201700032

Journal articles | 2016

Lu X; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2016, 'Back Cover: Highly Selective and Stable Reduction of CO2 to CO by a Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Carbon Nanotube Composite Electrocatalyst (Chem. Eur. J. 34/2016)', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, pp. 12200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201602994

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, 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, 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, 26, pp. 3515 - 3523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201505302

Journal articles | 2015

Gondosiswanto R; Lu X; Zhao C, 2015, 'Preparation of metal-free nitrogen-doped graphene via direct electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in ammonium nitrate', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 68, pp. 830 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH14447

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 37, pp. 1959 - 1967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3nj00213f

Journal articles | 2013

Gooding JJ; Choudhury MH; Ciampi S; Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Eectroactive Monolayers On n-Type Silicons', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2013-02, pp. 2484 - 2484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2013-02/42/2484

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 30, pp. 2116 - 2120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.200900356
Conference Papers | 2019

Zhang Q; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell made up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', in Proceedings of the nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, Fundació Scito, presented at nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, 03 November 2019 - 08 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.ngfm.2019.021

Conference Papers | 2019

Zhang Q; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell made up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', in Proceedings of the nanoGe Fall Meeting19, Fundació Scito, presented at nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, 03 November 2019 - 08 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2019.021

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.

Ph.D. positions and Honours projects are available, please contact Dr. Lu for further discussions.