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Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride (2024)
Journal Article
Hall, M., Rigby, S. P., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride. RSC Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4su00354c

One promising carbon capture technology is the absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) by molten salt, specifically the molten mixture of calcium oxide and chloride (CaO + CaCl2, COC), as it solves some of the key issues with alternative methods, includin... Read More about Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride.

A hierarchical host microstructure enables regulated inner Li deposition for stable Li metal electrodes (2024)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Chen, G. Z., Hu, D., Yao, X., & Peng, Z. (2024). A hierarchical host microstructure enables regulated inner Li deposition for stable Li metal electrodes. Microstructures, 4(4), Article 2024059. https://doi.org/10.20517/microstructures.2024.13

Dendritic lithium (Li) deposition is a critical issue hindering the development of next-generation high-energy-density Li metal batteries (LMBs). Confining Li deposition within a three-dimensional host is a general strategy to suppress the volume exp... Read More about A hierarchical host microstructure enables regulated inner Li deposition for stable Li metal electrodes.

An Undergraduate Practical for Evaluation of Powdery Battery Materials with a Metallic Cavity Electrode (2024)
Journal Article
Jiang, T., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). An Undergraduate Practical for Evaluation of Powdery Battery Materials with a Metallic Cavity Electrode. Journal of Chemical Education, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00648

Selection and development of novel and better materials for batteries are essential for renewable energy storage and zero or low carbon emission. This experimental design aims firstly to demonstrate a novel copper metal cavity electrode (Cu-MCE) for... Read More about An Undergraduate Practical for Evaluation of Powdery Battery Materials with a Metallic Cavity Electrode.

Conversion of high moisture biomass to hierarchical porous carbon via molten base carbonisation and activation for electrochemical double layer capacitor (2024)
Journal Article
Egun, I. L., Akinwolemiwa, B., Yin, B., Tian, H., He, H., Fow, K. L., Zhang, H., Chen, G. Z., & Hu, D. (2024). Conversion of high moisture biomass to hierarchical porous carbon via molten base carbonisation and activation for electrochemical double layer capacitor. Bioresource Technology, 409, 131251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131251

Biomass-derived carbon for supercapacitors faces the challenge of achieving hierarchical porous carbon with graphitic structure and specific heteroatoms through a single-stage thermal process that minimises resource input. Herein, molten base carboni... Read More about Conversion of high moisture biomass to hierarchical porous carbon via molten base carbonisation and activation for electrochemical double layer capacitor.

High-Efficiency NO conversion via In-Situ grown covalent organic framework on g-C3N4 nanosheets with Single-Atom platinum photocatalyst (2024)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., Yusuf, A., Ren, Y., Zheng Chen, G., Wang, C., & He, J. (2024). High-Efficiency NO conversion via In-Situ grown covalent organic framework on g-C3N4 nanosheets with Single-Atom platinum photocatalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal, 497, Article 154487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.154487

This study presents a chemically bonded Pt/TP-BPY-CN/g-C3N4 composite photocatalyst created through an in-situ growth method via Schiff base reaction between g-C3N4 and aldehyde-functionalized TP-BPY-COF. The −H-C-N-H- bonds formed at the g-C3N4 and... Read More about High-Efficiency NO conversion via In-Situ grown covalent organic framework on g-C3N4 nanosheets with Single-Atom platinum photocatalyst.

Redox Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors (2024)
Journal Article
Chiku, M., Abdollahifar, M., Brousse, T., Chen, G. Z., Crosnier, O., Dunn, B., Fic, K., Hu, C.-C., Jeżowski, P., Maćkowiak, A., Naoi, K., Ogihara, N., Okita, N., Okubo, M., Sugimoto, W., & Wu, N.-L. (2024). Redox Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors. Electrochemistry, 92(7), Article 074002. https://doi.org/10.5796/electrochemistry.24-70054

Electrochemical capacitors are known for their high power density and cyclability, and various redox reactions can be utilized to improve their energy density. A great variety of redox materials have been investigated recently for use in electrochemi... Read More about Redox Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors.

Study of pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of low-concentration NO (2024)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., Ren, Y., Chen, G. Z., Sun, Y., Wang, C., & He, J. (2024). Study of pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of low-concentration NO. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12(5), Article 113470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.113470

This research presents the development of innovative pyrene-based COFs aimed at enhancing photocatalytic oxidation of low-concentration nitrogen oxide. By precisely modifying the structural length and incorporating additional functional groups into p... Read More about Study of pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of low-concentration NO.

Hydration control in the fabrication of high-density magnesia products via slip casting (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, Y., Gargala, A., Misson, M., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Hydration control in the fabrication of high-density magnesia products via slip casting. Materials Advances, 5(17), 6830-6841. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00768E

To tackle the hydration problem in magnesia (MgO) aqueous suspension during slip casting fabrication, we explored the casting performance of four distinct MgO slips. Through the comparison of properties and performance between aqueous and organic MgO... Read More about Hydration control in the fabrication of high-density magnesia products via slip casting.

Molten Base Carbonisation and Activation of Bamboo Shoots to Generate Capacitive Carbon (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egun, I. L., Hu, D., He, H., & Chen, G. Z. (2024, May). Molten Base Carbonisation and Activation of Bamboo Shoots to Generate Capacitive Carbon. Presented at 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes - Green and Sustainable Process Engineering and Process Systems Engineering, Online

Porous carbon with hierarchical pores has been produced from wet bamboo shoots via molten base carbonization and activation at 700 °C, with a short residence time of 1 h, using two different reactor configurations. The produced carbon exhibited a not... Read More about Molten Base Carbonisation and Activation of Bamboo Shoots to Generate Capacitive Carbon.

Correction to “Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction" (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, M., Zhao, X., Yang, S., Yang, X., Li, X., He, J., …Zeng, G. (2024). Correction to “Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction". ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(20), Article 26966. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c07187

I n the Supporting Information of our original paper, Figures S24, S38, and S39 are not correct. In Figure S24 on page 28 of the original Supporting Information, the PXRD data for NiPc-COF under different conditions are misused. In Figure S38 on page... Read More about Correction to “Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction".

Emerging Molten Salts Based Electrochemical Energy Technologies (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Emerging Molten Salts Based Electrochemical Energy Technologies. Electrochemistry, 92(4), Article 24-69009. https://doi.org/10.5796/electrochemistry.24-69009

Molten salts of inorganic nature are excellent reaction media for various research and industrial uses. Their applications in energy technologies are also wide, including, but not limited to, thermal, nuclear, and electrochemical processes and their... Read More about Emerging Molten Salts Based Electrochemical Energy Technologies.

Alternate Water Electrolysis (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Alternate Water Electrolysis. Next Sustainability, 3, Article 100029

Hydrogen gas is a net zero carbon emission clean fuel with an unmatched high specific energy. Water electrolysis is an important alternative method to produce hydrogen to the traditional fossil hydrocarbon reforming in industry. The main challenges o... Read More about Alternate Water Electrolysis.