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Experimental investigation of low-temperature fluidised bed thermochemical energy storage with salt-mesoporous silica composite materials (2024)
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Liu, X., Liu, X., Yang, F., & Wu, Y. (2024). Experimental investigation of low-temperature fluidised bed thermochemical energy storage with salt-mesoporous silica composite materials. Applied Energy, 362, Article 122953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122953

Low-temperature thermochemical energy storage (TCES) with composites ‘salt in porous matrix’ (CSPMs) is widely recognized as a sustainable and efficient solution for harnessing low-grade heat and off-peak electricity. However, many high-performance C... Read More about Experimental investigation of low-temperature fluidised bed thermochemical energy storage with salt-mesoporous silica composite materials.

Thermal performance of an advanced smart fenestration systems for low-energy buildings (2024)
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Ming, Y., Sun, Y., Liu, X., Liu, X., & Wu, Y. (2024). Thermal performance of an advanced smart fenestration systems for low-energy buildings. Applied Thermal Engineering, 244, Article 122610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.122610

Windows significantly influence a building's indoor environment and energy consumption due to their high optical transmittance and low thermal resistance comparing with walls, affecting both indoor daylight comfort and heat gain or loss. Thermotropic... Read More about Thermal performance of an advanced smart fenestration systems for low-energy buildings.

High-Dose Methotrexate as CNS Prophylaxis in High-Risk Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma (2023)
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Lewis, K. L., Jakobsen, L. H., Villa, D., Smedby, K. E., Savage, K. J., Eyre, T. A., …Pophali, P. A. (2023). High-Dose Methotrexate as CNS Prophylaxis in High-Risk Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology, https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.23.00365

PURPOSE CNS progression or relapse is an uncommon but devastating complication of aggressive B-cell lymphoma. There is no consensus regarding the optimal approach to CNS prophylaxis. This study was designed to determine whether high-dose methotrexate... Read More about High-Dose Methotrexate as CNS Prophylaxis in High-Risk Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma.

Amine functionalized lignin-based mesoporous cellular carbons for CO2 capture (2023)
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Sani, S., Liu, X., Stevens, L., Wang, H., & Sun, C. (2023). Amine functionalized lignin-based mesoporous cellular carbons for CO2 capture. Fuel, 351, Article 128886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.128886

Amine-impregnated mesoporous carbon sorbents have been considered one of the most promising sorbents for CO2 capture from streams with low CO2 concentrations. In this work, a series of novel solid amine adsorbents were prepared by impregnating polyet... Read More about Amine functionalized lignin-based mesoporous cellular carbons for CO2 capture.

Selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone over copper based bimetallic catalysts derived from metal-organic frameworks (2023)
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Ibrahim, A., Liu, X., Uguna, C. N., & Sun, C. (2023). Selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone over copper based bimetallic catalysts derived from metal-organic frameworks. Materials Today Sustainability, 23, Article 100424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtsust.2023.100424

The transformation of biomass or feedstocks derived from biomass into fuels or chemicals with added value is an essential step in the process of transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. In this study, metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived non-nob... Read More about Selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone over copper based bimetallic catalysts derived from metal-organic frameworks.

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) derived microporous carbons prepared via hydrothermal dechlorination and potassium hydroxide activation for efficient CO2 capture (2023)
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Yang, F., Liu, X., Li, M., Uguna, C., Wang, W., & Sun, C. (2023). Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) derived microporous carbons prepared via hydrothermal dechlorination and potassium hydroxide activation for efficient CO2 capture. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 180, Article 113279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113279

Hydrothermal dechlorination has been widely studied for recycling end-of-life polyvinyl chloride while the impact of embedded metal additives, a major component of many waste PVC products, has rarely been reported. In this study, hydrothermal treatme... Read More about Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) derived microporous carbons prepared via hydrothermal dechlorination and potassium hydroxide activation for efficient CO2 capture.

Fluidisable mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage (2023)
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Wang, H., Liu, X., Liu, X., Sun, C., & Wu, Y. (2023). Fluidisable mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage. Energy, 275, Article 127255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.127255

Salt hydrate based thermochemical energy storage has been widely recognised as a promising long-duration storage technology to decarbonize heating/cooling in buildings.However, currently there are few salt hydrate-based energy stora... Read More about Fluidisable mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage.

Hydrodeoxygenation of p-cresol over CuNi@C catalyst derived from metal-organic frameworks precursor (2022)
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Ibrahim, A., Liu, X., Uguna, C. N., & Sun, C. (2022). Hydrodeoxygenation of p-cresol over CuNi@C catalyst derived from metal-organic frameworks precursor. Fuel, 329, Article 125320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125320

Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation is becoming more important industrially due to the urgent need for the conversion of oxygen-rich biomass into a renewable hydrocarbon energy source as means to tackle the climate change crisis. This research examined the... Read More about Hydrodeoxygenation of p-cresol over CuNi@C catalyst derived from metal-organic frameworks precursor.

Development of MgSO4/mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage: the role of porous structure on water adsorption (2022)
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Liu, X., Wang, H., Liu, X., Yang, F., Guan, L., Sani, S., …Wu, Y. (2022). Development of MgSO4/mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage: the role of porous structure on water adsorption. Energy Reports, 8, 4913-4921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.03.137

Composites ‘salt in porous matrix’ has been considered as a promising candidate for thermal energy storage due to their large sorption capacity, energy density and high cyclic stability. In this study, novel salt composites were prepared by using dif... Read More about Development of MgSO4/mesoporous silica composites for thermochemical energy storage: the role of porous structure on water adsorption.

Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage (2022)
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Liu, X., Yang, F., Li, M., Sun, C., & Wu, Y. (2022). Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage. Energy Reports, 8, 1696-1703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.12.065

Phase Change Materials (PCMs) has gained considerable interest for storing thermal energy originating from the solar irradiation, industrial waste heat and surplus heat. Here, we present the facile and scalable synthesis of PCM-carbon foam composites... Read More about Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage.

Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material (2021)
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Sun, Y., Liu, X., Ming, Y., Liu, X., Mahon, D., Wilson, R., …Wu, Y. (2021). Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material. Applied Energy, 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116826

With the increasing awareness of building energy efficiency, indoor environment quality for human wellbeing and working efficiency, efforts have intensified in to inventing intelligent building components. This paper provides a first step in developi... Read More about Energy and daylight performance of a smart window: Window integrated with thermotropic parallel slat-transparent insulation material.

Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures (2020)
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Liu, X., Liu, J., Sun, C., Liu, H., Wang, W., Smith, E., …Snape, C. (2020). Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(33), 17025-17035. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta01417f

Developing effective carbon materials for post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) has received great attentions over many recent years, owing to their desirable adsorption−desorption performance and exceptional thermo-oxidative stability compared to virtua... Read More about Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures.

Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms (2020)
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Xiao, Z., Liu, X., Harper, L. T., Endruweit, A., & Warrior, N. A. (2020). Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms. Journal of Composite Materials, 54(20), 2739-2751. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998320902506

A force-directed algorithm was developed to create representative geometrical models of fibre distributions in Directed Carbon Fibre Preforms (DCFP). Local permeability values were calculated for the preform models depending on the local fibre orient... Read More about Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms.

Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation (2019)
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Liu, X., Zhou, K., Farndon, M., Meier, E., Stevens, L., Liu, H., & Sun, C. (2019). Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation. Applied Energy, 255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113643

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Siliceous foams with three-dimensional mesoporous structures were synthesised and used to prepare polyethyleneimine (PEI) and tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA)-functionalised sorbent materials for CO2 capture, with a particular focus... Read More about Mesocellular silica foam supported polyamine adsorbents for dry CO2 scrubbing: Performance of single versus blended polyamines for impregnation.

Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption (2018)
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Liu, X., Sun, C., Liu, H., Herng Tan, W., Wang, W., & Snape, C. (2019). Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption. Chemical Engineering Journal, 361, 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.11.062

Activated carbons represent one of the important categories of the adsorbent materials for CO2 capture currently under development. However, the low adsorption capacity and selectivity at low CO2 partial pressure or relatively high flue gas temperatu... Read More about Developing hierarchically ultra-micro/mesoporous biocarbons for highly selective carbon dioxide adsorption.

Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture (2018)
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Sun, Y., Liu, X., Sun, C., Meng, Y., Al-Sarraf, W., Foo, K. Z., …Liu, H. (2018). Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018(46), 23587-23601. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA06224B

A variety of meso, meso/macro and macro-structured siliceous cellular foam (SCFs) materials have been tailor-designed and fabricated from using a modified microemulsion templating methodology with trimethyl benzene (TMB) as the pore expander and Plu... Read More about Synthesis and functionalisation of spherical meso-, hybrid meso/macro- and macro-porous cellular silica foam materials with regulated pore sizes for CO2 capture.

A facile route to bespoke macro- and mesoporous block copolymer microparticles (2018)
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He, G., Bennett, T. M., Alauhdin, M., Fay, M. W., Liu, X., Schwab, S. T., …Howdle, S. M. (in press). A facile route to bespoke macro- and mesoporous block copolymer microparticles. Polymer Chemistry, 9(27), https://doi.org/10.1039/c8py00707a

We report a facile and versatile strategy for the bespoke fabrication of macro- and mesoporous block copolymer microparticles. A clean synthetic route, RAFT dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), is used to generate block... Read More about A facile route to bespoke macro- and mesoporous block copolymer microparticles.

High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture (2017)
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Liu, J., Liu, X., Sun, Y., Sun, C., Liu, H., Stevens, L. A., …Snape, C. E. (in press). High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201700115

Activated carbon (AC) spheres with a diameter of 1.0–2.0 mm are synthesized from coal tar pitch for postcombustion carbon capture. The as-prepared AC macrospheres after KOH activation are found to possess extraordinarily developed microporosity of wh... Read More about High density and super ultra-microporous-activated carbon macrospheres with high volumetric capacity for CO2 capture.

Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture (2017)
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Liu, X., Sun, Y., Liu, J., Sun, C., Liu, H., Xue, Q., …Snape, C. (2017). Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(32), 26826-26839. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06665

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Novel hierarchically structured microporous biocarbons with exceptionally high capacities for CO2 capture have been synthesized from the abundant agricultural waste of rice husk (RH), using a facile methodology that... Read More about Potassium and Zeolitic Structure Modified Ultra-microporous Adsorbent Materials from a Renewable Feedstock with Favorable Surface Chemistry for CO2 Capture.

Volatility forecasting in the Chinese commodity futures market with intraday data (2016)
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Ying, J., Shamin, A., & Xiaoquan, L. (in press). Volatility forecasting in the Chinese commodity futures market with intraday data. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-016-0570-4

Given the unique institutional regulations in the Chinese commodity futures market as well as the characteristics of the data it generates, we utilize contracts with three months to delivery, the most liquid contract series, to systematically explore... Read More about Volatility forecasting in the Chinese commodity futures market with intraday data.