By Associate Professor Xunyu Lu

Journal articles

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902106

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

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

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

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

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

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, pp. 20851 - 20856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.06.088

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

Zhu X; Amal R; Lu X, 2019, 'N,P Co-Coordinated Manganese Atoms in Mesoporous Carbon for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction', Small, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201804524

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805367

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choudhury MH; Ciampi S; Lu X; Kashi MB; Zhao C; Gooding JJ; Bolourian Kashi M, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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