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Associate Professor Xunyu Lu

Associate Professor Xunyu Lu

Associate Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry (School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Oct 2014)
Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2022 - now)
  • Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney (01 July 2019 - 31 Dec 2022)
  • Scientia Fellow,UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2019 - now)
  • Discovery Early Career Researcher Award,UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2019)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney (01 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016)

Teaching

  • CEIC2009 Materials and Energy Balances inthe Chemical Process Industry.
  • CEIC2000 Materials and Energy Systems.
Phone
+61 2 93859793
E-mail
xunyu.lu@unsw.edu.au
Location
Faculty of Engineering Rm 352, Tyree Energy Technology Building
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Wang Z; Xie A; Li Z; Chu W; Lu X; Zeng J; Zhao H, 2025, 'Selective oxidation of electron-rich pollutants in peroxymonosulfate-activated electro-Fenton system: The role of microenvironment-regulated cathode', Water Research, 268,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Han C; Li C; Yuwono JA; Liu Z; Sun K; Wang K; He G; Huang J; Kumar PV; Vongsvivut J; Cong J; Mehrvarz H; Han Z; Lu X; Pan J; Hao X; Amal R, 2024, 'Nanostructured hybrid catalysts empower the artificial leaf for solar-driven ammonia production from nitrate', Energy and Environmental Science, 17, pp. 5653 - 5665,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lin Z; Felice ; O'Connell GEP; Wan T; Zhang D; Peng L; Chu D; Lu X; Han Z, 2024, 'Electrosynthesis of peracetic acid using in-situ generated H2O2 enabled by carbon-based bifunctional electrodes', Chemical Engineering Journal, 481,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lin Z; Han Z; O'Connell GEP; Wan T; Zhang D; Ma Z; Chu D; Lu X, 2024, 'Graphene and MOF Assembly: Enhanced Fabrication and Functional Derivative via MOF Amorphization', Advanced Materials, 36,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Shan X; Ding L; Wang D; Wen S; Shi J; Chen C; Wang Y; Zhu H; Huang Z; Wang SSJ; Zhong X; Liu B; Reece PJ; Ren W; Hao W; Lu X; Lu J; Su QP; Chang L; Sun L; Jin D; Jiang L; Wang F, 2024, 'Correction to: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy (Nature Photonics, (2024), 18, 9, (913-921), 10.1038/s41566-024-01462-7)', Nature Photonics, 18, pp. 998,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Shan X; Ding L; Wang D; Wen S; Shi J; Chen C; Wang Y; Zhu H; Huang Z; Wang SSJ; Zhong X; Liu B; Reece PJ; Ren W; Hao W; Lu X; Lu J; Su QP; Chang L; Sun L; Jin D; Jiang L; Wang F, 2024, 'Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy', Nature Photonics, 18, pp. 913 - 921,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Wang S; Ning X; Liu X; Shakouri M; Hu Y; Yuan H; Liu P; Lu X; Guo Y; Wang Y, 2024, 'Ruthenium co-anchored by nitrogen and oxygen on lignin derived carbon for high-efficient hydrogen evolution', Carbon, 217,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Zhong W; Chi Y; Yu R; Kong C; Zhou S; Han C; Vongsvivut J; Mao G; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Amal R; Tang J; Lu X, 2024, 'Liquid Metal-Enabled Tunable Synthesis of Nanoporous Polycrystalline Copper for Selective CO2-to-Formate Electrochemical Conversion', Small,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Chi Y; Kumar PV; Zheng J; Kong C; Yu R; Johnston L; Ghasemian MB; Rahim MA; Kumeria T; Chu D; Lu X; Mao G; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Tang J, 2023, 'Liquid-Metal Solvents for Designing Hierarchical Nanoporous Metals at Low Temperatures', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 17070 - 17081,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low- and High-Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction', Advanced Functional Materials, 33,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low‐ and High‐Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2023)', Advanced Functional Materials, 33,
    Journal articles | 2023
    He W; Li X; Tang C; Zhou S; Lu X; Li W; Li X; Zeng X; Dong P; Zhang Y; Zhang Q, 2023, 'Materials Design and System Innovation for Direct and Indirect Seawater Electrolysis', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 22227 - 22239,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lin Z; Han C; O'Connell GEP; Lu X, 2023, 'Recent Progress on Electrode Design for Efficient Electrochemical Valorisation of CO2, O2, and N2', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lin Z; Han C; O'Connell GEP; Lu X, 2023, 'Recent Progress on Electrode Design for Efficient Electrochemical Valorisation of CO2, O2, and N2', Angewandte Chemie, 135,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Ma Z; Wan T; Zhang D; Yuwono JA; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Chou YH; Lu X; Kumar PV; Ng YH; Chu D; Toe CY; Han Z; Amal R, 2023, 'Atomically Dispersed Cu Catalysts on Sulfide-Derived Defective Ag Nanowires for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 2387 - 2398,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang D; Mitchell E; Lu X; Chu D; Shang L; Zhang T; Amal R; Han Z, 2023, 'Metal-free carbon-based catalysts design for oxygen reduction reaction towards hydrogen peroxide: From 3D to 0D', Materials Today, 63, pp. 339 - 359,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang Q; Chen Y; Pan J; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2023, 'Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide through Selective Oxygen Reduction: A Carbon Innovation from Active Site Engineering to Device Design', Small, 19,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lin Z; Zhang Q; Pan J; Tsounis C; Esmailpour AA; Xi S; Yang HY; Han Z; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2022, 'Atomic Co decorated free-standing graphene electrode assembly for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in acid', Energy and Environmental Science, 15, pp. 1172 - 1182,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Ma Z; Tsounis C; Toe CY; Kumar PV; Subhash B; Xi S; Yang HY; Zhou S; Lin Z; Wu KH; Wong RJ; Thomsen L; Bedford NM; Lu X; Ng YH; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Reconstructing Cu Nanoparticle Supported on Vertical Graphene Surfaces via Electrochemical Treatment to Tune the Selectivity of CO2Reduction toward Valuable Products', ACS Catalysis, 12, pp. 4792 - 4805,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Peng L; Min J; Bendavid A; Chu D; Lu X; Amal R; Han Z, 2022, 'Stabilizing the Unstable: Chromium Coating on NiMo Electrode for Enhanced Stability in Intermittent Water Electrolysis', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 40822 - 40833,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rong C; Shen X; Wang Y; Thomsen L; Zhao T; Li Y; Lu X; Amal R; Zhao C, 2022, 'Electronic Structure Engineering of Single-Atom Ru Sites via Co–N4 Sites for Bifunctional pH-Universal Water Splitting', Advanced Materials, 34,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López-Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron-Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 61,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López‐Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron‐Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie, 134,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tsounis C; Subhash B; Kumar PV; Bedford NM; Zhao Y; Shenoy J; Ma Z; Zhang D; Toe CY; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Lu X; Dai L; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Pt Single Atom Electrocatalysts at Graphene Edges for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution', Advanced Functional Materials, 32,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Xiao H; He J; Lu X; Wang F; Guo Y, 2022, 'Bandgap-engineered ferroelectric single-crystalline NBT-BT based nanocomposites with excellent visible light-ultrasound catalytic performance', Chemosphere, 306,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhang D; Tsounis C; Ma Z; Djaidiguna D; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Lu X; Chu D; Amal R; Han Z, 2022, 'Highly Selective Metal-Free Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide on Functionalized Vertical Graphene Edges', Small, 18,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhao Y; Kumar PV; Tan X; Lu X; Zhu X; Jiang J; Pan J; Xi S; Yang HY; Ma Z; Wan T; Chu D; Jiang W; Smith SC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2022, 'Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis', Nature Communications, 13,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhou Y; Zhou Z; Hu L; Tian R; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Chen F; Li M; Wan T; Han Z; Ma Z; Lu X; Cazorla C; Wu T; Chu D, 2022, 'A facile approach to tailor electrocatalytic properties of MnO2 through tuning phase transition, surface morphology and band structure', Chemical Engineering Journal, 438,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Daiyan R; Tran-Phu T; Kumar P; Iputera K; Tong Z; Leverett J; Khan MHA; Asghar Esmailpour A; Jalili A; Lim M; Tricoli A; Liu RS; Lu X; Lovell E; Amal R, 2021, 'Nitrate reduction to ammonium: From CuO defect engineering to waste NOx-to-NH3 economic feasibility', Energy and Environmental Science, 14, pp. 3588 - 3598,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kabir II; Sheppard LR; Shahmiri R; Liu R; Le A; Lu X; Hanaor D; Chen WF; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Correction to: Contamination of TiO2 thin films spin coated on rutile and soda–lime–silica substrates (Journal of Materials Science, (2020), 55, 19, (8061-8087), 10.1007/s10853-020-04592-9)', Journal of Materials Science, 56, pp. 17874 - 17875,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kim S; Singh G; Sathish CI; Panigrahi P; Daiyan R; Lu X; Sugi Y; Kim IY; Vinu A, 2021, 'Tailoring the Pore Size, Basicity, and Binding Energy of Mesoporous C3N5 for CO2 Capture and Conversion', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 16, pp. 3999 - 4005,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Leverett J; Daiyan R; Gong L; Iputera K; Tong Z; Qu J; Ma Z; Zhang Q; Cheong S; Cairney J; Liu RS; Lu X; Xia Z; Dai L; Amal R, 2021, 'Designing Undercoordinated Ni-Nxand Fe-Nxon Holey Graphene for Electrochemical CO2Conversion to Syngas', ACS Nano, 15, pp. 12006 - 12018,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Pam ME; Yan D; Yu J; Fang D; Guo L; Li XL; Li TC; Lu X; Ang LK; Amal R; Han Z; Yang HY, 2021, 'Microstructural Engineering of Cathode Materials for Advanced Zinc-Ion Aqueous Batteries', Advanced Science, 8,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu K; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction (Adv. Energy Mater. 17/2021)', Advanced Energy Materials, 11,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu KH; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction', Advanced Energy Materials, 11,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang Q; Zhe Ru ZL; Daiyan R; Kumar P; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2021, 'Surface reconstruction enabled efficient hydrogen generation on a cobalt-iron phosphate electrocatalyst in neutral water', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 53798 - 53809,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang X; Fan J; Lu X; Han Z; Cazorla C; Hu L; Wu T; Chu D, 2021, 'Bridging NiCo layered double hydroxides and Ni3S2 for bifunctional electrocatalysts: the role of vertical graphene', Chemical Engineering Journal, pp. 129048,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang X; Fan J; Lu X; Han Z; Cazorla C; Hu L; Wu T; Chu D, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Bridging NiCo layered double hydroxides and Ni3S2 for bifunctional electrocatalysts: The role of vertical graphene” [Chem. Eng. J. 415 (2021) 129048](S1385894721006392)(10.1016/j.cej.2021.129048)', Chemical Engineering Journal, 418,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhao Y; Jiang WJ; Zhang J; Lovell EC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2021, 'Anchoring Sites Engineering in Single-Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Energy Conversion Reactions', Advanced Materials, 33,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhao Y; Zhang J; Xie Y; Sun B; Jiang J; Jiang WJ; Xi S; Yang HY; Yan K; Wang S; Guo X; Li P; Han Z; Lu X; Liu H; Wang G, 2021, 'Constructing Atomic Heterometallic Sites in Ultrathin Nickel-Incorporated Cobalt Phosphide Nanosheets via a Boron-Assisted Strategy for Highly Efficient Water Splitting', Nano Letters, 21, pp. 823 - 832,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhou Y; Qi H; Yang J; Bo Z; Huang F; Islam MS; Lu X; Dai L; Amal R; Wang CH; Han Z, 2021, 'Two-birds-one-stone: Multifunctional supercapacitors beyond traditional energy storage', Energy and Environmental Science, 14, pp. 1854 - 1896,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhu X; Tan X; Wu K; Haw S; Pao C; Su B; Jiang J; Smith SC; Chen J; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the d‐Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning', Angewandte Chemie, 133, pp. 22082 - 22088,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhu X; Tan X; Wu KH; Haw SC; Pao CW; Su BJ; Jiang J; Smith SC; Chen JM; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the d-Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, pp. 21911 - 21917,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Huang B; Zubair M; Leverett J; Zhang Q; Lim S; Horlyck J; Tang J; Lu X; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Hart JN; Bedford NM; Amal R, 2020, 'Uncovering Atomic-Scale Stability and Reactivity in Engineered Zinc Oxide Electrocatalysts for Controllable Syngas Production', Advanced Energy Materials, 10,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Daiyan R; Zhu X; Tong Z; Gong L; Razmjou A; Liu RS; Xia Z; Lu X; Dai L; Amal R, 2020, 'Transforming active sites in nickel–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO', Nano Energy, 78,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lu X; Zhang Q; Ng YH; Zhao C, 2020, 'Reversible ternary nickel-cobalt-iron catalysts for intermittent water electrolysis', EcoMat, 2,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Rana M; Kim J; Peng L; Lim H; Kaiser R; Ran L; Luo B; Han Z; Hossain MSA; Lu X; Gentle I; Yamauchi Y; Knibbe R, 2020, 'Impact of Micropores and Dopants to Mitigate Lithium Polysulfides Shuttle over High Surface Area of ZIF-8 Derived Nanoporous Carbons', ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3, pp. 5523 - 5532,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tsounis C; Lu X; Bedford NM; Subhash B; Thomsen L; Zhang Q; Ma Z; Ostrikov K; Bendavid A; Scott JA; Amal R; Han Z, 2020, 'Valence Alignment of Mixed Ni-Fe Hydroxide Electrocatalysts through Preferential Templating on Graphene Edges for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution', ACS Nano, 14, pp. 11327 - 11340,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhang Q; Tan X; Bedford NM; Han Z; Thomsen L; Smith S; Amal R; Lu X, 2020, 'Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production', Nature Communications, 11,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhu X; Hu C; Amal R; Dai L; Lu X, 2020, 'Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc-air batteries: Progress, mechanism, and opportunities', Energy and Environmental Science, 13, pp. 4536 - 4563,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhu X; Zhang D; Chen CJ; Zhang Q; Liu RS; Xia Z; Dai L; Amal R; Lu X, 2020, 'Harnessing the interplay of Fe–Ni atom pairs embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis', Nano Energy, 71,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Zhu X; Amal R; Lu X, 2019, 'N,P Co-Coordinated Manganese Atoms in Mesoporous Carbon for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction', Small, 15,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Daiyan R; Lu X; Saputera WH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2018, 'Highly Selective Reduction of CO2 to Formate at Low Overpotentials Achieved by a Mesoporous Tin Oxide Electrocatalyst', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6, pp. 1670 - 1679,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Daiyan R; Tan X; Chen R; Saputera WH; Tahini HA; Lovell E; Ng YH; Smith SC; Dai L; Lu X; Amal R, 2018, 'Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on a Mesoporous Carbon Catalyst with Progressively Removed Nitrogen Moieties', ACS Energy Letters, 3, pp. 2292 - 2298,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Li S; Li L; Tang Y; Toe CY; Wu H; Chung HY; Amal R; Liu X; Lu X; Ng YH, 2018, 'Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3O4 Nanocrystals on One-Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation', CHEMPLUSCHEM, 83, pp. 889 - 889,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lu X; Pan J; Lovell E; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2018, 'A sea-change: Manganese doped nickel/nickel oxide electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation from seawater', Energy and Environmental Science, 11, pp. 1898 - 1910,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Sabri M; King HJ; Gummow RJ; Lu X; Zhao C; Oelgemöller M; Chang SLY; Hocking RK, 2018, 'Oxidant or Catalyst for Oxidation? A Study of How Structure and Disorder Change the Selectivity for Direct versus Catalytic Oxidation Mediated by Manganese(III,IV) Oxides', Chemistry of Materials, 30, pp. 8244 - 8256,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wu H; Li S; Lu X; Toe CY; Chung HY; Tang Y; Lu X; Amal R; Li L; Ng YH, 2018, 'Front Cover: Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3O4 Nanocrystals on One‐Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation (ChemPlusChem 10/2018)', ChemPlusChem, 83, pp. 886 - 886,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wu H; Li S; Lu X; Toe CY; Chung HY; Tang Y; Lu X; Amal R; Li L; Ng YH, 2018, 'Pulsed Electrodeposition of Co3O4 Nanocrystals on One-Dimensional ZnO Scaffolds for Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation', ChemPlusChem, 83, pp. 934 - 940,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Choudhury MH; Ciampi S; Lu X; Kashi MB; Zhao C; Gooding JJ; Bolourian Kashi M, 2017, 'Spatially confined electrochemical activity at a non-patterned semiconductor electrode', Electrochimica Acta, 242, pp. 240 - 246,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Daiyan R; Lu X; Ng YH; Amal R, 2017, 'Liquid Hydrocarbon Production from CO2: Recent Development in Metal-Based Electrocatalysis', ChemSusChem, 10, pp. 4342 - 4358,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Daiyan R; Lu X; Ng YH; Amal R, 2017, 'Surface engineered tin foil for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to formate', Catalysis Science and Technology, 7, pp. 2542 - 2550,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lu X; Tan X; Wang DW; Ng YH; Tahini HA; Tan H; Yan W; Smith SC; Amal R, 2017, 'Nitrogen Doped Carbon Nanosheets Coupled Nickel–Carbon Pyramid Arrays Toward Efficient Evolution of Hydrogen', Advanced Sustainable Systems, 1,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lu X; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2016, 'Back Cover: Highly Selective and Stable Reduction of CO2 to CO by a Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Carbon Nanotube Composite Electrocatalyst (Chem. Eur. J. 34/2016)', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, pp. 12200,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lu X; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2016, 'Highly Selective and Stable Reduction of CO2to CO by a Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Carbon Nanotube Composite Electrocatalyst', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, pp. 11991 - 11996,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Weremfo A; Lu X; Carter P; Hibbert DB; Zhao C, 2016, 'Modelling an electrochemically roughened porous platinum electrode for water oxidation', Chemical Communications, 52, pp. 4068 - 4071,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Xiao C; Li Y; Lu X; Zhao C, 2016, 'Bifunctional Porous NiFe/NiCo2O4/Ni Foam Electrodes with Triple Hierarchy and Double Synergies for Efficient Whole Cell Water Splitting', Advanced Functional Materials, 26, pp. 3515 - 3523,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gondosiswanto R; Lu X; Zhao C, 2015, 'Preparation of metal-free nitrogen-doped graphene via direct electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in ammonium nitrate', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 68, pp. 830 - 835,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lu X; Chan HM; Sun CL; Tseng CM; Zhao C, 2015, 'Interconnected core-shell carbon nanotube-graphene nanoribbon scaffolds for anchoring cobalt oxides as bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, pp. 13371 - 13376,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lu X; Yim WL; Suryanto BHR; Zhao C, 2015, 'Electrocatalytic oxygen evolution at surface-oxidized multiwall carbon nanotubes', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, pp. 2901 - 2907,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lu X; Zhao C, 2015, 'Electrodeposition of hierarchically structured three-dimensional nickel-iron electrodes for efficient oxygen evolution at high current densities', Nature Communications, 6,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lu X; Ng YH; Zhao C, 2014, 'Gold nanoparticles embedded within mesoporous cobalt oxide enhance electrochemical oxygen evolution', ChemSusChem, 7, pp. 82 - 86,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Xiao C; Lu X; Zhao C, 2014, 'A simple and reliable method for determining the delamination degree of nitrate and glycine intercalated LDHs in formamide', Chemical Communications, 50, pp. 10122 - 10125,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zhao C; Xiao C; Chan HM; Lu X, 2014, 'Decorating semiconductor silver-tetracyanoquinodimethane nanowires with silver nanoparticles from ionic liquids', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 67, pp. 213 - 216,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Chen Y; Cao Y; Lu X; Zhao C; Yan C; Mu T, 2013, 'Water sorption in protic ionic liquids: Correlation between hygroscopicity and polarity', New Journal of Chemistry, 37, pp. 1959 - 1967,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Gooding JJ; Choudhury MH; Ciampi S; Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Eectroactive Monolayers On n-Type Silicons', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2013-02, pp. 2484 - 2484,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Khan A; Lu X; Aldous L; Zhao C, 2013, 'Oxygen reduction reaction in room temperature protic ionic liquids', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117, pp. 18334 - 18342,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Controlled electrochemical intercalation, exfoliation and in situ nitrogen doping of graphite in nitrate-based protic ionic liquids', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15, pp. 20005 - 20009,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Highly efficient and robust oxygen evolution catalysts achieved by anchoring nanocrystalline cobalt oxides onto mildly oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1, pp. 12053 - 12059,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Suryanto BHR; Lu X; Chan HM; Zhao C, 2013, 'Controlled electrodeposition of cobalt oxides from protic ionic liquids for electrocatalytic water oxidation', RSC Advances, 3, pp. 20936 - 20942,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Suryanto BHR; Lu X; Zhao C, 2013, 'Layer-by-layer assembly of transparent amorphous Co3O 4 nanoparticles/graphene composite electrodes for sustained oxygen evolution reaction', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1, pp. 12726 - 12731,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Gan Q; Lu X; Dong W; Yuan Y; Qian J; Li Y; Shi J; Liu C, 2012, 'Endosomal pH-activatable magnetic nanoparticle-capped mesoporous silica for intracellular controlled release', Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, pp. 15960 - 15968,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lu X; Burrell G; Separovic F; Zhao C, 2012, 'Electrochemistry of Room Temperature Protic Ionic Liquids: A Critical Assessment for Use as Electrolytes in Electrochemical Applications', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116, pp. 9160 - 9170,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Gan Q; Lu X; Yuan Y; Qian J; Zhou H; Lu X; Shi J; Liu C, 2011, 'A magnetic, reversible pH-responsive nanogated ensemble based on Fe3O4 nanoparticles-capped mesoporous silica', Biomaterials, 32, pp. 1932 - 1942,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Lu X; Sun F; Wang J; Zhong J; Dong Q, 2009, 'A facile route to prepare organic/inorganic hybrid nanomaterials by 'click chemistry'', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 30, pp. 2116 - 2120,
  • Preprints | 2022
    Shan X; Ding L; Wen S; Chen C; Wang D; Zhu H; Nie P; Lu X; Wang S; Zhong X; Su Q; Liu B; Lu J; Reece P; Chang L; Jin D; Wang F, 2022, Single charge regime electrodynamic force measuring in solution by upconversion photonic force microscope,
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Zhang Q; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell made up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', in Proceedings of the nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, Fundació Scito, presented at nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, 03 November 2019 - 08 November 2019,
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Zhang Q; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell made up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', in Proceedings of the nanoGe Fall Meeting19, Fundació Scito, presented at nanoGe Fall Meeting 2019, 03 November 2019 - 08 November 2019,

Awards and Honours

  • Bloom-Gutmann Prize (2012) fromRoyal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).
  • ARC DECRA Fellow (2017-2019).
  • UNSW Scientia Fellow (2019-2022).

Research Activities and Current Projects

  • 1.Development of cost-effective and active catalyst for electrochemical energy conversion reactions.
  • 2. Fundamental study of electrocatalysis with combined computational and experimental techniques.
  • 3. Design and fabrication of energy devices (water/CO2electrolysers, fuel cell stacks, metal-air batteries) for potential industrial applications.
  • 4. Control the geometric and electronic effects of single atom catalysts for selectivity and activity enhancements.
  • 5. Integration of the energy devices with state-of-the-art photovoltaic (PV) cells to produce renewable chemicals and fuels.

Recent Selected Publications:

  • Y. Zhao, P.V. Kumar, X. Tan, X.X. Lu, X. Zhu, J. Jiang, J. Pan, S. Xi, H. Y. Yang, Z. Ma, T. Wan, D. Chu, W. Jiang, S.C. Smith, R. Amal, Z. Han,X. Lu,Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis,Nature Communications, 2022,13, 2430.
  • Z. Lin, Q. Zhang, J. Pan, C. Tsounis, A.A. Esmailpour, S. Xi, Y.H. Yang, Z. Han, J. Yun, R. Amal,X. Lu, Atomic Co decorated free-standing graphene electrode assembly for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in acid,Energy & Environmental Science, 2022, 15, 1172-1182.
  • Q. Zhang, P. Kumar, X. Zhu, R. Daiyan, N.M. Bedford, K. Wu, Z. Han, T. Zhang, R. Amal,X. Lu, Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction,Advanced Energy Materials, 2021,11, 2100303.
  • Y. Zhao, W.-J. Jiang, J. Zhang, E.C. Lovell, R. Amal, Z. Han, X. Lu, Anchoring Sites Engineering in Single-Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Energy Conversion Reactions, Advanced Materials, 2021,33, 2102801.
  • X. Zhu, X. Tan, K.-H. Wu, S.-C. Haw, C.-W. Pao, B.-J. Su, J. Jiang, S.C. Smith, J.-M. Chen, R. Amal, X. Lu, Intrinsic ORR Activity Enhancement of Pt Atomic Sites by Engineering the d-Band Center via Local Coordination Tuning, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2021, 60, 21911-21917.
  • Q. Zhang, X. Tan, N.M. Bedford, Z. Han, L. Thomsen, S. Smith, R. Amal,X. Lu, Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production,Nature Communications, 2020,11, 4181.
  • X. Zhu, C. Hu, R. Amal, L. Dai, X. Lu, Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc-air batteries: progress, mechanism, and opportunities, Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 4536-4563.

Ph.D. positionsand Honours projectsare available, please contact Dr. Lu for further discussions.