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Charge Storage Properties of Aqueous Halide Supercapatteries with Activated Carbon and Graphene Nanoplatelets as Active Electrode Materials (2020)
Journal Article
Akinwolemiwa, B., Wei, C., Yang, Q., & Chen, G. Z. (2021). Charge Storage Properties of Aqueous Halide Supercapatteries with Activated Carbon and Graphene Nanoplatelets as Active Electrode Materials. Energy & Environmental Materials, 4(3), 481-491. https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12133

Device level performance of aqueous halide supercapatteries fabricated with equal electrode mass of activated carbon or graphene nanoplatelets has been characterized. It was revealed that the surface oxygen groups in the graphitic structures of the n... Read More about Charge Storage Properties of Aqueous Halide Supercapatteries with Activated Carbon and Graphene Nanoplatelets as Active Electrode Materials.

Enhancing hydrogen production from steam electrolysis in molten hydroxides via selection of non-precious metal electrodes (2020)
Journal Article
Sher, F., Al-Shara, N. K., Iqbal, S. Z., Jahan, Z., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Enhancing hydrogen production from steam electrolysis in molten hydroxides via selection of non-precious metal electrodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45(53), 28260-28271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.07.183

© 2020 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC There are still gaps in the field of reference electrode that is needed to assist electrolysis in high temperature electrolytes (e.g. molten hydroxides) for H2 gas production. This research aims to fill the gap... Read More about Enhancing hydrogen production from steam electrolysis in molten hydroxides via selection of non-precious metal electrodes.

Electrochemical Production of Sustainable Hydrocarbon Fuels from CO2Co-electrolysis in Eutectic Molten Melts (2020)
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Al-Juboori, O., Sher, F., Khalid, U., Niazi, M. B., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Electrochemical Production of Sustainable Hydrocarbon Fuels from CO2Co-electrolysis in Eutectic Molten Melts. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8(34), 12877-12890. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03314

© 2020 American Chemical Society. Because of the heavy reliance of people on limited fossil fuels as energy resources, global warming has increased to severe levels because of huge CO2 emission into the atmosphere. To mitigate this situation, a green... Read More about Electrochemical Production of Sustainable Hydrocarbon Fuels from CO2Co-electrolysis in Eutectic Molten Melts.

Nanoporous Versus Nanoparticulate Carbon-Based Materials for Capacitive Charge Storage (2020)
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Chen, Y., Hao, X., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Nanoporous Versus Nanoparticulate Carbon-Based Materials for Capacitive Charge Storage. Energy & Environmental Materials, 3(3), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12101

This article reviews recent progresses in the preparation and supercapacitor applications of selected nanoporous and nanoparticulate carbon-based materials, namely activated carbons, graphenes and carbon nanotubes and their composites with redox mate... Read More about Nanoporous Versus Nanoparticulate Carbon-Based Materials for Capacitive Charge Storage.

The effect of variable operating parameters for hydrocarbon fuel formation from CO2 by molten salts electrolysis (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Juboori, O., Sher, F., Hazafa, A., Khan, M. K., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). The effect of variable operating parameters for hydrocarbon fuel formation from CO2 by molten salts electrolysis. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 40, Article 101193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2020.101193

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. The emission of CO2 has been increasing day by day by growing world population, which resulted in the atmospheric and environmental destruction. Conventionally different strategies, including nuclear power and geothermal energy h... Read More about The effect of variable operating parameters for hydrocarbon fuel formation from CO2 by molten salts electrolysis.

Supercapattery: Merit merge of capacitive and Nernstian charge storage mechanisms (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, G. Z. (2020). Supercapattery: Merit merge of capacitive and Nernstian charge storage mechanisms. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 21, 358-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2020.04.002

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Supercapattery is the generic name for hybrids of supercapacitor and rechargeable battery. Batteries store charge via Faradaic processes, involving reversible transfer of localised or zone-delocalised valence electrons. The forme... Read More about Supercapattery: Merit merge of capacitive and Nernstian charge storage mechanisms.

Design and optimization of electrochemical cell potential for hydrogen gas production (2020)
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Al-Shara, N. K., Sher, F., Iqbal, S. Z., Curnick, O., & Chen, G. Z. (2021). Design and optimization of electrochemical cell potential for hydrogen gas production. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 52, 421-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2020.04.026

© 2020 Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences This study deals with the optimization of best working conditions in molten melt for the production of hydrogen (H2) gas. Limited research has been carried out... Read More about Design and optimization of electrochemical cell potential for hydrogen gas production.

Synergetic treatment of dye contaminated wastewater using microparticles functionalized with carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide nanocomposites (2020)
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Lian, Z., Wei, C., Gao, B., Yang, X., Chan, Y., Wang, J., Chen, G. Z., Koh, K. S., Shi, Y., Yan, Y., Ren, Y., He, J., & Liu, F. (2020). Synergetic treatment of dye contaminated wastewater using microparticles functionalized with carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide nanocomposites. RSC Advances, 10(16), 9210-9225. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra10899h

This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry. The highly efficient treatment of azo dye contaminated wastewater from the textile industry is an important but challenging problem. Herein, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microparticles, incorporating m... Read More about Synergetic treatment of dye contaminated wastewater using microparticles functionalized with carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide nanocomposites.

Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Chi, Y., Sun, X., Gu, H., Zhang, H., Li, Z., Chen, Y., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167, Article 040524. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab75c8

The commercial activated carbon has a relatively low specific capacitance in the Na2SO4 electrolyte, which hinder the development of asymmetrical supercapacitors with high voltage. Re-activation and oxidative etching methods were applied to change th... Read More about Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte.

Effects of Pore Widening vs Oxygenation on Capacitance of Activated Carbon in Aqueous Sodium Sulfate Electrolyte (2020)
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Zhang, L., Chi, Y., Li, Z., Sun, X., Gu, H., Zhang, H., Chen, Y., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Effects of Pore Widening vs Oxygenation on Capacitance of Activated Carbon in Aqueous Sodium Sulfate Electrolyte. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167(4), Article 040524. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab75c8

© 2020 The Electrochemical Society ("ECS"). Published on behalf of ECS by IOP Publishing Limited. The commercial activated carbon has a relatively low specific capacitance in the Na2SO4 electrolyte, which hinder the development of asymmetrical superc... Read More about Effects of Pore Widening vs Oxygenation on Capacitance of Activated Carbon in Aqueous Sodium Sulfate Electrolyte.

Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2020)
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Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 3(2), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41918-020-00063-6

The development of novel electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies to enhance the performance of EES devices in terms of energy capacity, power capability and cycling life is urgently needed. To address this need, supercapatteries are being d... Read More about Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2020)
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Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 3(2), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41918-020-00063-6

Abstract: The development of novel electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies to enhance the performance of EES devices in terms of energy capacity, power capability and cycling life is urgently needed. To address this need, supercapatteries a... Read More about Supercapatteries as High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Environmental assessment of the near-net-shape electrochemical metallisation process and the Kroll-electron beam melting process for titanium manufacture (2020)
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Dolganov, A., Bishop, M. T., Tomatis, M., Chen, G. Z., & Hu, D. (2020). Environmental assessment of the near-net-shape electrochemical metallisation process and the Kroll-electron beam melting process for titanium manufacture. Green Chemistry, 22(6), 1952-1967. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc04036f

This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry. The enforcement of environmental policies, in recent years, has become one of the major driving forces for industrial upgrading. Therefore, this study is focused on the evaluation of the environmental... Read More about Environmental assessment of the near-net-shape electrochemical metallisation process and the Kroll-electron beam melting process for titanium manufacture.

A Co9S8 microsphere and N-doped carbon nanotube composite host material for lithium-sulfur batteries (2020)
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Xi, Y., Angulakshmi, N., Zhang, B., Tian, X., Tang, Z., Xie, P., Chen, G. Z., & Zhou, Y. (2020). A Co9S8 microsphere and N-doped carbon nanotube composite host material for lithium-sulfur batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 826, 154201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154201

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Lithium-sulfur batteries have emerged as extraordinarily favorable energy storage devices due to their high specific capacity and energy density, safety and low cost. Unfortunately, the wide applications of lithium-sulfur batteri... Read More about A Co9S8 microsphere and N-doped carbon nanotube composite host material for lithium-sulfur batteries.

Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode (2020)
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Lian, Z., Chan, Y., Luo, Y., Yang, X., Koh, K. S., Wang, J., Chen, G. Z., Ren, Y., & He, J. (2020). Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode. ELECTROPHORESIS, 41(10-11), 891-901. https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900403

© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Scale-up in droplet microfluidics achieved by increasing the number of devices running in parallel or increasing the droplet makers in the same device can compromise the narrow droplet-size distribu... Read More about Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode.

Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process (2020)
Book Chapter
Chen, G. Z., & Fray, D. J. (2020). Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process. In Extractive Metallurgy of Titanium: Conventional and Recent Advances in Extraction and Production of Titanium Metal (227-286). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817200-1.00011-9

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The original patent of the Fray-Farthing-Chen (FFC) Cambridge process was published in 1999, whilst the past 2decades have witnessed significant progresses in many aspects, including commercialisation and lab... Read More about Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process.

Electrochemical study of different membrane materials for the fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrode (2020)
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Al-Shara, N. K., Sher, F., Iqbal, S. Z., Sajid, Z., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Electrochemical study of different membrane materials for the fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrode. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 49, 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2020.01.008

© 2020 Fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrodes for low energy and high-temperature steam splitting is of great interest for hydrogen fuel production without anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. This study has bee... Read More about Electrochemical study of different membrane materials for the fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrode.

High Density Electrochemical Energy Storage via Regenerative Fuels (2019)
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Lan, X., & Chen, G. (2019). High Density Electrochemical Energy Storage via Regenerative Fuels. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 40(s1), S111-S119

The ever-increasing consumption of finite resources of fossil fuels and global environmental concerns have accelerated the efforts to develop efficient and affordable electrochemical energy storage and electricity generation devices. Electrochemical... Read More about High Density Electrochemical Energy Storage via Regenerative Fuels.

Silicon prepared by electro-reduction in molten salts as new energy materials (2019)
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Jiang, T., Xu, X., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Silicon prepared by electro-reduction in molten salts as new energy materials. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 47, 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2019.11.005

© 2019 Silicon has a large impact on the energy supply and economy in the modern world. In industry, high purity silicon is firstly prepared by carbothermic reduction of silica with the produced raw silicon being further refined by a modified Siemens... Read More about Silicon prepared by electro-reduction in molten salts as new energy materials.

Electrochemical investigation of novel reference electrode Ni/Ni(OH)₂ in comparison with silver and platinum inert quasi-reference electrodes for electrolysis in eutectic molten hydroxide (2019)
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Al-Shara, N. K., Sher, F., Yaqoob, A., & Chen, G. Z. (2019). Electrochemical investigation of novel reference electrode Ni/Ni(OH)₂ in comparison with silver and platinum inert quasi-reference electrodes for electrolysis in eutectic molten hydroxide. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(50), 27224-27236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.08.248

An efficient and green energy carrier hydrogen (H2) generation via water splitting reaction has become a major area of focus to meet the demand of clean and sustainable energy sources. In this research, the splitting steam via eutectic molten hydroxi... Read More about Electrochemical investigation of novel reference electrode Ni/Ni(OH)₂ in comparison with silver and platinum inert quasi-reference electrodes for electrolysis in eutectic molten hydroxide.