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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

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

Wei Y; Horlyck J; Song M; Scott J; Amal R; Cao Q, 2020, 'Inducing Ni phyllosilicate formation over a carbon fiber support as a catalyst for the CO2 reforming of methane', Applied Catalysis A: General, 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2020.117418

Gunawan C; Faiz MB; Mann R; Ting SRS; Sotiriou GA; Marquis CP; Amal R, 2020, 'Nanosilver Targets the Bacterial Cell Envelope: The Link with Generation of Reactive Oxygen Radicals', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 5557 - 5568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20193

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

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

Valentin E; Bottomley AL; Chilambi GS; Harry EJ; Amal R; Sotiriou GA; Rice SA; Gunawan C, 2020, 'Heritable nanosilver resistance in priority pathogen: A unique genetic adaptation and comparison with ionic silver and antibiotics', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 2384 - 2392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9nr08424j

Allioux FM; Merhebi S; Tang J; Idrus-Saidi SA; Abbasi R; Saborio MG; Ghasemian MB; Han J; Namivandi-Zangeneh R; O'Mullane AP; Koshy P; Daiyan R; Amal R; Boyer C; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Catalytic Metal Foam by Chemical Melting and Sintering of Liquid Metal Nanoparticles', Advanced Functional Materials, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201907879

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

Tran-Phu T; Daiyan R; Fusco Z; Ma Z; Amal R; Tricoli A, 2020, 'Nanostructured β-Bi2O3 Fractals on Carbon Fibers for Highly Selective CO2 Electroreduction to Formate', Advanced Functional Materials, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201906478

Masood H; Toe CY; Teoh WY; Sethu V; Amal R, 2019, 'Machine Learning for Accelerated Discovery of Solar Photocatalysts', ACS Catalysis, 9, pp. 11774 - 11787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b02531

Tang J; Daiyan R; Ghasemian MB; Idrus-Saidi SA; Zavabeti A; Daeneke T; Yang J; Koshy P; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Kaner RB; Amal R; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Idrus Saidi SA, 2019, 'Advantages of eutectic alloys for creating catalysts in the realm of nanotechnology-enabled metallurgy', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 4645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12615-6

Sun J; Lin Y; Sun Z; Zhu S; Amal R; Li F; Wang DW, 2019, 'Highly cross-linked carbon sponge enables room-temperature long-life semi-liquid Na/polysulfide battery', Materials Today Energy, 14, pp. 100342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2019.100342

Wu X; Ng YH; Saputera WH; Wen X; Du Y; Dou SX; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'The Dependence of Bi2MoO6 Photocatalytic Water Oxidation Capability on Crystal Facet Engineering', ChemPhotoChem, 3, pp. 1246 - 1253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201900113

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

Wang L; Chen W; Zhang D; Du Y; Amal R; Qiao S; Wu J; Yin Z, 2019, 'Surface strategies for catalytic CO2 reduction: From two-dimensional materials to nanoclusters to single atoms', Chemical Society Reviews, 48, pp. 5310 - 5349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cs00163h

Cui Y; Xiao K; Bedford NM; Lu X; Yun J; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Refilling Nitrogen to Oxygen Vacancies in Ultrafine Tungsten Oxide Clusters for Superior Lithium Storage', Advanced Energy Materials, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902148

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

Toe CY; Scott J; Amal R; Ng YH, 2019, 'Recent advances in suppressing the photocorrosion of cuprous oxide for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical energy conversion', Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, 40, pp. 191 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2018.10.001

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

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

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

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

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

Xie Z; Tan HL; Wen X; Suzuki Y; Iwase A; Kudo A; Amal R; Scott J; Ng YH, 2019, 'The Importance of the Interfacial Contact: Is Reduced Graphene Oxide Always an Enhancer in Photo(Electro)Catalytic Water Oxidation?', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 23125 - 23134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b03624

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

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

Deng C; Wu KH; Scott J; Zhu S; Zheng X; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Spherical Murray-Type Assembly of Co-N-C Nanoparticles as a High-Performance Trifunctional Electrocatalyst', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 9925 - 9933, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b20565

Zhao S; Wang DW; Amal R; Dai L, 2019, 'Carbon-Based Metal-Free Catalysts for Key Reactions Involved in Energy Conversion and Storage', Advanced Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201801526

Hjerrild NE; Crisostomo F; Chin RL; Scott JA; Amal R; Taylor RA, 2019, 'Experimental Results for Tailored Spectrum Splitting Metallic Nanofluids for c-Si, GaAs, and Ge Solar Cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, pp. 385 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2883626

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

Tan HL; Du A; Amal R; Ng YH, 2019, 'Decorating platinum on nitrogen-doped graphene sheets: Control of the platinum particle size distribution for improved photocatalytic H2 generation', Chemical Engineering Science, pp. 85 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.12.042

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

Wu KH; Huang X; Tahini H; Kappen P; Huang R; Tan X; Jang LY; Ding Y; Smith SC; Qi W; Gentle IR; Su DS; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Oxygen Electrocatalysis at Mn III -O x -C Hybrid Heterojunction: An Electronic Synergy or Cooperative Catalysis?', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 706 - 713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b16325

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

Tian Y; Wu KH; Tan X; Zeng Q; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Hydrophilic tannic acid-modified WS2 nanosheets for enhanced polysulfide conversion in aqueous media', JPhys Energy, 1, pp. 015005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/aaead4

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

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

Esmailpour AA; Moradi S; Yun J; Scott J; Amal R; Esmailpour Valmazouyi AA, 2019, 'Promoting surface oxygen vacancies on ceria via light pretreatment to enhance catalytic ozonation', Catalysis Science and Technology, 9, pp. 5979 - 5990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cy01450k

Iwase A; Udagawa Y; Yoshino S; Ng YH; Amal R; Kudo A, 2019, 'Solar Water Splitting under Neutral Conditions Using Z-Scheme Systems with Mo-Doped BiVO4 as an O2-Evolving Photocatalyst', Energy Technology, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ente.201900358

Deng C; Wu KH; Scott J; Zhu S; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Ternary MnO/CoMn alloy@N-doped graphitic composites derived from a bi-metallic pigment as bi-functional electrocatalysts', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7, pp. 20649 - 20657, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta08016c

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

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

Tian Y; Wu KH; Cao L; Saputera WH; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Unlocking high-potential non-persistent radical chemistry for semi-aqueous redox batteries', Chemical Communications, 55, pp. 2154 - 2157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8cc09304k

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

Iwase A; Udagawa Y; Yoshino S; Ng YH; Amal R; Kudo A, 2019, 'Solar Water Splitting under Neutral Conditions Using Z‐Scheme Systems with Mo‐Doped BiVO4 as an O2‐Evolving Photocatalyst', Energy Technology, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ente.201980351

Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Scott J; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Amal R, 2018, 'Single Atom and Nanoclustered Pt Catalysts for Selective CO2 Reduction', ACS Applied Energy Materials, 1, pp. 6781 - 6789, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00817

Wu X; Ng YH; Wen X; Chung HY; Wong RJ; Du Y; Dou SX; Amal R; Scott J, 2018, 'Construction of a Bi2MoO6:Bi2Mo3O12 heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic oxygen evolution', Chemical Engineering Journal, 353, pp. 636 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.149

Wu H; Zheng Z; Tang Y; Huang NM; Amal R; Lim HN; Ng YH, 2018, 'Pulsed electrodeposition of CdS on ZnO nanorods for highly sensitive photoelectrochemical sensing of copper (II) ions', Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2018.e00075


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