By Professor Chuan Zhao

Journal articles

Schonvogel D; Belack J; Vidakovic J; Schmies H; Uhlig LM; Langnickel H; Man Tung PK; Meyer Q; Zhao C; Wagner P, 2024, 'Performance and durability of high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells with silicon carbide filled polybenzimidazole composite membranes', Journal of Power Sources, 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233835

Zou Z; Dastafkan K; Shao Y; Zhao C; Wang Q, 2024, 'Electrocatalysts for alkaline water electrolysis at ampere-level current densities: a review', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 51, pp. 667 - 684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.026

Müller-Hülstede J; Schmies H; Schonvogel D; Meyer Q; Nie Y; Zhao C; Wagner P; Wark M, 2024, 'What determines the stability of Fe-N-C catalysts in HT-PEMFCs?', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 50, pp. 921 - 930, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.09.190

Gao Y; Zhang Y; Zhao Q; Li J; Liu G; Zhao C, 2024, 'Research progress and prospect of anionic exchange membrane electrolyzer and OER electrocatalysts', Scientia Sinica Chimica, 54, pp. 1837 - 1847, http://dx.doi.org/10.1360/SSC-2024-0118

Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Shen X; Bartlett SA; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Sun H; Pozo‐Gonzalo C; Dastafkan K; Britto S; Bhargava SK; Zhao C, 2024, 'Stacking Fault‐Enriched MoNi₄/MoO₂ Enables High‐Performance Hydrogen Evolution (Adv. Mater. 33/2024)', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202470264

Ahmed MI; Assafiri A; Hibbert DB; Zhao C, 2023, 'Li-Mediated Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation: Key Advances and Future Perspectives', Small, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305616

Zou Z; Zheng Z; Chen Y; Shao Y; Zheng X; Zhao C; Wang Q, 2023, 'Ethanol combustion-assisted fast synthesis of tri-metal oxides with reduced graphene oxide for superior overall water splitting performance', Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 11, pp. 837 - 844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3qi02046k

Rong C; Dastafkan K; Wang Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Breaking the Activity and Stability Bottlenecks of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reactions in Acids', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202211884

Wang YD; Meyer Q; Tang K; McClure JE; White RT; Kelly ST; Crawford MM; Iacoviello F; Brett DJL; Shearing PR; Mostaghimi P; Zhao C; Armstrong RT, 2023, 'Large-scale physically accurate modelling of real proton exchange membrane fuel cell with deep learning', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35973-8

Dastafkan K; Shen X; Hocking RK; Meyer Q; Zhao C, 2023, 'Monometallic interphasic synergy via nano-hetero-interfacing for hydrogen evolution in alkaline electrolytes', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36100-3

Meyer Q; Yang C; Cheng Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Overcoming the Electrode Challenges of High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells', Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41918-023-00180-y

Ahmed MI; Hibbert DB; Zhao C, 2023, 'Rational catalyst design and mechanistic evaluation for electrochemical nitrogen reduction at ambient conditions', Green Energy and Environment, 8, pp. 1567 - 1595, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gee.2022.10.001

Su Z; Guo H; Zhao C, 2023, 'Rational Design of Electrode–Electrolyte Interphase and Electrolytes for Rechargeable Proton Batteries', Nano Micro Letters, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01071-z

Dastafkan K; Wang S; Song S; Meyer Q; Zhang Q; Shen Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Operando monitoring of gas bubble evolution in water electrolysis by single high-frequency impedance', Ees Catalysis, 1, pp. 998 - 1008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00182b

Butson JD; Sharma A; Tournet J; Wang Y; Tatavarti R; Zhao C; Jagadish C; Tan HH; Karuturi S, 2023, 'Unlocking Ultra-High Performance in Immersed Solar Water Splitting with Optimised Energetics', Advanced Energy Materials, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202301793

Jia C; Zhao Y; Song S; Sun Q; Meyer Q; Liu S; Shen Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Highly Ordered Hierarchical Porous Single-Atom Fe Catalyst with Promoted Mass Transfer for Efficient Electroreduction of CO2', Advanced Energy Materials, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202302007

Pivac I; Meyer Q; Zhao C; Barbir F, 2023, 'Operando investigations of proton exchange membrane fuel cells performance during air interruptions in dry and humidified conditions', Journal of Power Sources, 580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233418

Xiao Y; Dastafkan K; Su Z; Rong C; Zhao C, 2023, 'Decoupling the contributions of industrially relevant conditions to the stability of binary and ternary FeNi-based catalysts for alkaline water oxidation', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, pp. 19418 - 19426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ta03905f

Liu S; Meyer Q; Jia C; Wang S; Rong C; Nie Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Operando deconvolution of the degradation mechanisms of iron-nitrogen-carbon catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells', Energy and Environmental Science, 16, pp. 3792 - 3802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee01166f

Zhao T; Wang S; Jia C; Rong C; Su Z; Dastafkan K; Zhang Q; Zhao C, 2023, 'Cooperative Boron and Vanadium Doping of Nickel Phosphides for Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline and Anion Exchange Membrane Water/Seawater Electrolyzers', Small, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202208076

Jia C; Sun Q; Zhao C, 2023, 'From bulk metals to single-atoms: design of efficient catalysts for the electroreduction of CO2', Chemical Communications, 59, pp. 7731 - 7742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3cc01581e

Fan M; Tao Z; Zhao Q; Li J; Liu G; Zhao C, 2023, 'Molecular Copper Phthalocyanine and FeOOH Modified BiVO4 Photoanodes for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation', Advanced Materials Technologies, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admt.202201835

Zhao C; Pan Y; Li R; Hu A; Zhou B; He M; Chen J; Yan Z; Fan Y; Chen N; Liu M; Long J, 2023, 'A safe anode-free lithium metal pouch cell enabled by integrating stable quasi-solid electrolytes with oxygen-free cathodes', Chemical Engineering Journal, 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142386

Sun Q; Zhao Y; Tan X; Jia C; Su Z; Meyer Q; Ahmed MI; Zhao C, 2023, 'Atomically Dispersed Cu-Au Alloy for Efficient Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Monoxide to Acetate', ACS Catalysis, 13, pp. 5689 - 5696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c06145

Xia Y; Cheng Y; Wang R; Meng Z; Meyer Q; Zhao C; Zhang H; Luo R; Li Y; Tang H, 2023, 'Porous nanosheet composite with multi-type active centers as an efficient and stable oxygen electrocatalyst in alkaline and acid conditions', Science China Materials, 66, pp. 1407 - 1416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40843-022-2272-2

Müller-Hülstede J; Uhlig LM; Schmies H; Schonvogel D; Meyer Q; Nie Y; Zhao C; Vidakovic J; Wagner P, 2023, 'Towards the Reduction of Pt Loading in High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells – Effect of Fe−N−C in Pt-Alloy Cathodes', Chemsuschem, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202202046

Su Z; Tang J; Chen J; Guo H; Wu S; Yin S; Zhao T; Jia C; Meyer Q; Rawal A; Ho J; Fang Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Co-insertion of Water with Protons into Organic Electrodes Enables High-Rate and High-Capacity Proton Batteries', Small Structures, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202200257

Wang S; Liu X; Chen X; Dastafkan K; Fu ZH; Tan X; Zhang Q; Zhao C, 2023, 'Super-exchange effect induced by early 3d metal doping on NiFe2O4(0 0 1) surface for oxygen evolution reaction', Journal of Energy Chemistry, 78, pp. 21 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2022.11.025

Chen Y; Zeng X; Meyer Q; Zhao C; He Z; Wu F; Tang H; Cheng Y, 2023, 'An outstanding NiFe/NF oxygen evolution reaction boosted by the hydroxyl oxides', Electrochimica Acta, 442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2023.141862

Meyer Q; Liu S; Ching K; Da Wang Y; Zhao C, 2023, 'Operando monitoring of the evolution of triple-phase boundaries in proton exchange membrane fuel cells', Journal of Power Sources, 557, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.232539

Quattrocchi E; Py B; Maradesa A; Meyer Q; Zhao C; Ciucci F, 2023, 'Deconvolution of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data using the deep-neural-network-enhanced distribution of relaxation times', Electrochimica Acta, 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141499

Tang J; Liang Z; Qin H; Liu X; Zhai B; Su Z; Liu Q; Lei H; Liu K; Zhao C; Cao R; Fang Y, 2023, 'Large-area Free-standing Metalloporphyrin-based Covalent Organic Framework Films by Liquid-air Interfacial Polymerization for Oxygen Electrocatalysis', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202214449

Tang J; Liang Z; Qin H; Liu X; Zhai B; Su Z; Liu Q; Lei H; Liu K; Zhao C; Cao R; Fang Y, 2023, 'Large‐area Free‐standing Metalloporphyrin‐based Covalent Organic Framework Films by Liquid‐air Interfacial Polymerization for Oxygen Electrocatalysis', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202214449

Li B; Dastafkan K; Shen Y; Wang L; Ma Y; Wang Z; Zhao C, 2023, 'Enhancing Adhesion of Electroless Copper Film on Smooth Polyimide Surfaces by Photocatalytic Oxidation', Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acf6e5

Zhou B; Hu A; Zeng X; He M; Li R; Zhao C; Yan Z; Pan Y; Chen J; Fan Y; Liu M; Long J, 2022, 'Constructing fast ion-transport channels for reversible zinc metal anodes enabled by self-concentration effect', Chemical Engineering Journal, 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.137921

Zhao X; Gao T; Ren W; Zhao C; Liu ZH; Li L, 2022, 'Highly active CoP-Co2N confined in nanocarbon enabling efficient electrocatalytic immobilizing-conversion of polysulfide targeting high-rate lithium-sulfur batteries', Journal of Energy Chemistry, 75, pp. 250 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2022.08.033

Wu S; Chen J; Su Z; Guo H; Zhao T; Jia C; Stansby J; Tang J; Rawal A; Fang Y; Ho J; Zhao C, 2022, 'Molecular Crowding Electrolytes for Stable Proton Batteries', Small, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202202992

Guo H; Wan L; Tang J; Wu S; Su Z; Sharma N; Fang Y; Liu Z; Zhao C, 2022, 'Stable colloid-in-acid electrolytes for long life proton batteries', Nano Energy, 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107642

Zhao C; Sharma N, 2022, 'Editorial overview: Electrochemical materials and engineering 2022 Energy materials and concepts that enable a green and clean future', Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2022.101076

Zhao T; Wang S; Li Y; Jia C; Su Z; Hao D; Ni BJ; Zhang Q; Zhao C, 2022, 'Heterostructured V-Doped Ni2P/Ni12P5 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution in Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers', Small, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202204758

Jia C; Shi Z; Zhao C, 2022, 'The porosity engineering for single-atom metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for the electroreduction of CO2', Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2022.100651

Wen X; Du D; Ren L; Xu H; Li R; Zhao C; Shu C, 2022, 'Creating low coordination atoms on MoS2/NiS2 heterostructure toward modulating the adsorption of oxygenated intermediates in lithium-oxygen batteries', Chemical Engineering Journal, 442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.136311

Li M; Yang K; Abdinejad M; Zhao C; Burdyny T, 2022, 'Advancing integrated CO2 electrochemical conversion with amine-based CO2 capture: a review', Nanoscale, 14, pp. 11892 - 11908, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2nr03310k

Bo X; Zan L; Jia R; Dastafkan K; Zhao C, 2022, 'The nature of synergistic effects in transition metal oxides/in-situ intermediate-hydroxides for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction', Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2022.100987

Müller-Hülstede J; Zierdt T; Schmies H; Schonvogel D; Meyer Q; Zhao C; Wagner P; Wark M, 2022, 'Implementation of different Fe–N–C catalysts in high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells – Effect of catalyst and catalyst layer on performance', Journal of Power Sources, 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231529

Zhao C; Long J; Zhou B; Zheng R; He M; Li R; Pan Y; Hu A; Shu C, 2022, 'Accelerating the reaction kinetics of lithium-oxygen chemistry by modulating electron acceptance-donation interaction in electrocatalysts', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10, pp. 17267 - 17278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ta04418h

Xiao Y; Dastafkan K; Li Y; Zhao T; Su Z; Qi H; Zhao C, 2022, 'Oxygen Corrosion Engineering of Nonprecious Ternary Metal Hydroxides toward Oxygen Evolution Reaction', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 10, pp. 8597 - 8604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c02114

Xu H; Zheng R; Du D; Ren L; Li R; Wen X; Zhao C; Zeng T; Zhou B; Shu C, 2022, 'Cationic vanadium vacancy-enriched V2−xO5 on V2C MXene as superior bifunctional electrocatalysts for Li-O2 batteries', Science China Materials, 65, pp. 1761 - 1770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40843-021-1959-1

Sun Q; Jia C; Zhao Y; Zhao C, 2022, 'Single atom-based catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction', Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 43, pp. 1547 - 1597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1872-2067(21)64000-7

Ren W; Tan X; Jia C; Krammer A; Sun Q; Qu J; Smith SC; Schueler A; Hu X; Zhao C, 2022, 'Electronic Regulation of Nickel Single Atoms by Confined Nickel Nanoparticles for Energy-Efficient CO2 Electroreduction', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202203335

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