By Associate Professor Xunyu Lu

Journal articles

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

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

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

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, 33, pp. 2370071 - 2370071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202370071

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, pp. 1900678 - 1900678, 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, 44, 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, pp. e1804524, 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, pp. e1805367, 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

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