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High Yield and Packing Density Activated Carbon by One-Step Molecular Level Activation of Hydrophilic Pomelo Peel for Supercapacitors (2021)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, L., Zou, Y., Yao, N., Lei, W., …Chen, G. Z. (2021). High Yield and Packing Density Activated Carbon by One-Step Molecular Level Activation of Hydrophilic Pomelo Peel for Supercapacitors. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 168(6), Article 060521. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac0762

Highly hydrophilic pomelo peel is used as an activated carbon (AC) precursor so that KOH can be homogeneously absorbed within it. Subsequent cryodesiccation retains the original morphology of the pomelo peel and distribution of KOH, which provides th... Read More about High Yield and Packing Density Activated Carbon by One-Step Molecular Level Activation of Hydrophilic Pomelo Peel for Supercapacitors.

Indirect electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and water by a magnesium chloride cycle at atmospheric pressure (2021)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Chen, G. Z., Zhuang, L., Wang, Z., & Jin, X. (2021). Indirect electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and water by a magnesium chloride cycle at atmospheric pressure. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2(5), Article 100425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100425

Artificial N2 fixation is one of the most important industrial processes for human beings. However, the current Haber-Bosch process based on fossil fuel suffers from unsustainability and a low N2 to NH3 conversion. Here, we report a magnesium chlorid... Read More about Indirect electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and water by a magnesium chloride cycle at atmospheric pressure.

Review—recent advances in non-aqueous liquid electrolytes containing fluorinated compounds for high energy density lithium-ion batteries (2021)
Journal Article
Yuan, J., Zhang, C., Chen, G. Z., Miao, H., & Xia, L. (2021). Review—recent advances in non-aqueous liquid electrolytes containing fluorinated compounds for high energy density lithium-ion batteries. Energy Storage Materials, 38, 542-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2021.03.032

Fluorinated compounds have received a huge amount of attention in non-aqueous liquid electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) because they possess desirable properties, such as high oxidation stability, high flash point, low melting point, good... Read More about Review—recent advances in non-aqueous liquid electrolytes containing fluorinated compounds for high energy density lithium-ion batteries.

Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Assisted Green Electrochemical Preparation of Silicon from Solid Silica in Calcium Chloride Melt (2021)
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Li, G., Chen, G. Z., Qin, Q., Gao, Y., Huang, Z., & He, L. (2021). Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Assisted Green Electrochemical Preparation of Silicon from Solid Silica in Calcium Chloride Melt. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 52, 1708-1715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-021-02138-1

A novel integrated cell with O2-|YSZ|Pt|O2(air) reference and counter electrodes was constructed using a short yttria-stabilized zirconia solid electrolyte (YSZ) tube. Combining with cyclic voltammetry and potentiostatic electrolysis methods, green e... Read More about Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Assisted Green Electrochemical Preparation of Silicon from Solid Silica in Calcium Chloride Melt.

Mechanisms and Product Options of Magnesiothermic Reduction of Silica to Silicon for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications (2021)
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Tan, Y., Jiang, T., & Chen, G. Z. (2021). Mechanisms and Product Options of Magnesiothermic Reduction of Silica to Silicon for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications. Frontiers in Energy Research, 9, Article 651386. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.651386

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been one of the most predominant rechargeable power sources due to their high energy/power density and long cycle life. As one of the most promising candidates for the new generation negative electrode materials in L... Read More about Mechanisms and Product Options of Magnesiothermic Reduction of Silica to Silicon for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications.

Nanomaterials Enhanced Heat Storage in Molten Salts (2021)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., Hu, D., Yu, L., Xia, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2021). Nanomaterials Enhanced Heat Storage in Molten Salts. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57492-5_6

Molten salts have great potentials as thermal energy storage (TES) media due to their many types and compositions, wide operating temperatures and relatively high values of specific heat capacity. The rapid development of TES technologies in recent y... Read More about Nanomaterials Enhanced Heat Storage in Molten Salts.

Erratum to: Interactions of molten salts with cathode products in the FFC Cambridge Process (International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, (2020), 27, 12, (1572-1587), 10.1007/s12613-020-2202-1) (2021)
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Chen, G. Z. (2021). Erratum to: Interactions of molten salts with cathode products in the FFC Cambridge Process (International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, (2020), 27, 12, (1572-1587), 10.1007/s12613-020-2202-1). International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 28(3), 511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-021-2271-9

The copyright information of the print version for this article unfortunately is not the same with that of the online version. The copyright information of the online version is right, which is “© The Author(s) 2020”.

Rheological study and printability investigation of titania inks for Direct Ink Writing process (2021)
Journal Article
Dolganov, A., Bishop, M. T., Chen, G. Z., & Hu, D. (2021). Rheological study and printability investigation of titania inks for Direct Ink Writing process. Ceramics International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2021.01.045

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. Titanium dioxide is widely used in numerous industries and with the newly developed titanium manufacturing technique, referred to as the Near-net-shape Electrochemical Metallisation (NEM) Process, the rapid... Read More about Rheological study and printability investigation of titania inks for Direct Ink Writing process.

Interactions of molten salts with cathode products in the FFC Cambridge Process (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, G. Z. (2020). Interactions of molten salts with cathode products in the FFC Cambridge Process. International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 27(12), 1572-1587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2202-1

© 2020, University of Science and Technology Beijing and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Molten salts play multiple important roles in the electrolysis of solid metal compounds, particularly oxides and sulfides, for the extract... Read More about Interactions of molten salts with cathode products in the FFC Cambridge Process.

Carbon-emcoating architecture boosts lithium storage of Nb2O5 (2020)
Journal Article
Ji, Q., Xu, Z., Gao, X., Cheng, Y.-J., Wan, X., Zuo, X., …Xia, Y. (2021). Carbon-emcoating architecture boosts lithium storage of Nb2O5. SCIENCE CHINA Materials, 64(5), 1071-1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-020-1532-0

Intercalation transition metal oxides (ITMO) have attracted great attention as lithium-ion battery negative electrodes due to high operation safety, high capacity and rapid ion intercalation. However, the intrinsic low electron conductivity plagues t... Read More about Carbon-emcoating architecture boosts lithium storage of Nb2O5.

Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Diverse Hydrocarbon Fuels via Molten Salt Electrolysis (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Juboori, O., Sher, F., Rahman, S., Rasheed, T., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Diverse Hydrocarbon Fuels via Molten Salt Electrolysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8(51), 19178-19188. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08209

© 2020 American Chemical Society. In recent decades, the unlimited use of fossil fuels mostly for power generation has emitted a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which in return has led to global warming. Here we use green technology... Read More about Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Diverse Hydrocarbon Fuels via Molten Salt Electrolysis.

P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wei, C., T. Bishop, M., Wang, Y., Gao, F., Wang, C., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2020-02(28), Article 1951. https://doi.org/10.1149/ma2020-02281951mtgabs

Photovoltaic devices based of P3HT:ZnS bulk heterojunctions currently produce relatively low efficiencies, limiting the scope these devices have for further development. This work aims to produce a novel photoactive layer, by incorporating oxidised c... Read More about P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes.

Quasi-solid-state electrolyte for rechargeable high-temperature molten salt iron-air battery (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Yang, Y., Cheng, L., Sun, J., Wang, X., Nan, P., …Wang, J. Q. (2021). Quasi-solid-state electrolyte for rechargeable high-temperature molten salt iron-air battery. Energy Storage Materials, 35, 142-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2020.11.014

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Molten salts are a unique type of electrolyte enabling high-temperature electrochemical energy storage (EES) with unmatched reversible electrode kinetics and high ion-conductivities, and hence impressive storage capacity and powe... Read More about Quasi-solid-state electrolyte for rechargeable high-temperature molten salt iron-air battery.

Controllable synthesis of hierarchical micro/nano structured FePO4 particles under synergistic effects of ultrasound irradiation and impinging stream (2020)
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Dong, B., Qian, H., Xue, C., Yang, X., Li, G., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). Controllable synthesis of hierarchical micro/nano structured FePO4 particles under synergistic effects of ultrasound irradiation and impinging stream. Advanced Powder Technology, 31(10), 4292-4300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2020.09.002

© 2020 The Society of Powder Technology Japan Hierarchical micro/nano-structured FePO4 (FP) particles were environmental-friendly and controllable synthesized through synergistic intensification of ultrasound and impinging streams. Nano-scale FP seed... Read More about Controllable synthesis of hierarchical micro/nano structured FePO4 particles under synergistic effects of ultrasound irradiation and impinging stream.

P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes (2020)
Journal Article
Wei, C., T. Bishop, M., Wang, Y., Gao, F., Wang, C., & Chen, G. Z. (2020). P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes. ECS Transactions, 98(7), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.1149/09807.0225ecst

© 2020 ECS - The Electrochemical Society. Photovoltaic devices based on P3HT:ZnS bulk heterojunctions currently produce relatively low efficiencies. This work aims to produce a novel photoactive layer, by incorporating oxidised carbon nanotubes (CNTs... Read More about P3HT:ZnS Based Photovoltaic Devices with Enhanced Performance Assisted by Oxidised Carbon Nanotubes.

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)
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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)
Journal Article
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.