By Scientia Professor Rose Amal

Journal articles

Bui TS; Ma Z; Zhong W; Alfaza G; Kumar PV; Zhou S; Yang Y; Li Y; Daiyan R; Lovell E; Dai L; Amal R, 2026, 'Selective electrochemical reduction of nitrate-to-ammonia mediated by silver single atoms anchored on defective g-C3N4', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125954

Sun H; Wen Y; Li Y; Fan R; Lu Y; Feng C; Liu H; Wang Y; Ma Z; Zhang Y; Amal R; Yan Z, 2026, 'Steering the reaction pathway of CO2 electroreduction and stabilizing Cu+ species by constructing the Cu2+/Cu+ valence state fluctuation buffer zone', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125891

Zhu YF; Yuwono JA; Wilson M; Xie B; Kumar P; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2025, 'Visible light contributions transform CO2 into higher hydrocarbons during Fischer Tropsch synthesis over K-Fe catalysts', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125736

Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Coupled NOx production and electrochemical conversion processes for sustainable ammonium synthesis from air', Chemical Engineering Journal, 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.168996

Luong QT; Guo J; Trần-Phú T; Ma Z; Zhang M; Tricoli A; Xia Z; Dai L; Amal R; Daiyan R, 2025, 'Understanding the potential of metal oxides for electrochemical co-reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrite', Materials Today Energy, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2025.102044

Satriyatama A; Zhou S; Toe CY; Pan J; Facchinetti I; Ng YH; Amal R, 2025, 'Optimizing Bismuth Vanadate Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Membrane Electrode Assembly Electrolyzers', Energy and Fuels, 39, pp. 18649 - 18659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5c03698

Xie B; Zhu YF; Shakeri M; Jin S; O’Connell G; Saha S; Mensi M; Kumar PV; Luterbacher JS; Lovell EC; Amal R; Kröcher O, 2025, 'Flame-Made Surface-Substituted Copper–Ceria as an Excellent Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction Catalyst via Three Reaction Pathways', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, pp. 32649 - 32661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c07701

Eskandari P; Zhou S; Yuwono J; Gunawan D; Webster RF; Ma Z; Xu H; Amal R; Lu X, 2025, 'Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media via Ruthenium–Chromium Atomic Pairs Modified Ruthenium Nanoparticles', Advanced Materials, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202419360

Zhang Z; Trần-Phú T; Yuwono J; Ma Z; Yang Y; Leverett J; Hocking RK; Johannessen B; Kumar P; Amal R; Daiyan R, 2025, 'Stable dual metal oxide matrix for tuning selectivity in acidic electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125203

Zhong W; Zhou S; Lovell EC; Amal R; Lu X, 2025, 'Copper-based electrocatalysts converting carbon dioxide to narrowly distributed products', Chemical Engineering Journal, 517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.163925

Zhu K; Zhang X; Wen L; Zhou S; Achilleos DS; Amal R; Ng YH; Abdi FF, 2025, 'Solar-driven electrolysis coupled with valuable chemical synthesis', Nature Reviews Clean Technology, 1, pp. 621 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44359-025-00089-3

Chung HY; Wong RJ; Wu H; Gunawan D; Amal R; Ng YH, 2025, 'Scalable and Integrated Photocatalytic Reactor Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Production: Photoredox and Photoreforming Processes', Advanced Energy Materials, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404956

Gunawan D; Stern T; Zhang J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Li Q; Yu H; Gunawan M; Hocking RK; Toe CY; Scott J; Amal R, 2025, 'Corrigendum to “Scalable solar-driven reforming of alcohol feedstock to H2 using Ni/Zn3In2S6 photocatalyst” [Chem. Eng. J. 513 (2025) 162965] (Chemical Engineering Journal (2025) 513, (S1385894725037994), (10.1016/j.cej.2025.162965))', Chemical Engineering Journal, 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.163701

Wang S; Zhou S; Ma Z; Gao N; Daiyan R; Leverett J; Shan Y; Zhu X; Zhao Y; Liu Q; Amal R; Lu X; Liu T; Antonietti M; Chen Y; Zhang Q; Tian Z, 2025, 'Oxygen-Substituted Porous C2N Frameworks as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202501896

Wang S; Zhou S; Ma Z; Gao N; Daiyan R; Leverett J; Shan Y; Zhu X; Zhao Y; Liu Q; Amal R; Lu X; Liu T; Antonietti M; Chen Y; Zhang Q; Tian Z, 2025, 'Oxygen‐Substituted Porous C₂N Frameworks as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction', Angewandte Chemie, 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202501896

Gunawan D; Stern T; Zhang J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Li Q; Yu H; Gunawan M; Hocking RK; Toe CY; Scott J; Amal R, 2025, 'Scalable solar-driven reforming of alcohol feedstock to H2 using Ni/Zn3In2S6 photocatalyst', Chemical Engineering Journal, 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.162965

Leverett J; Lie WH; Khan MHA; Ma Z; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Navigating the challenges of global NOx emissions throughout the energy transition: state of play and outlook', Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 9, pp. 3780 - 3790, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4se01806k

Zhou S; Sun K; Satriyatama A; Facchinetti I; Toe CY; Hao X; Amal R, 2025, 'Nanoengineered Kesterite Photocathodes: Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Performance for Water Splitting and Beyond', ACS Nano, 19, pp. 17041 - 17061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c01821

Leverett J; Baghestani G; Tran‐Phu T; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Johannessen B; Simondson D; Wen H; Chang SLY; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Dai L; Amal R; Daiyan R; Hocking RK, 2025, 'Direct Observation of Electron Donation onto the Reactants and a Transient Poisoning Mechanism During CO₂ Electroreduction on Ni Single Atom Catalysts', Angewandte Chemie, 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202424087

Leverett J; Baghestani G; Tran-Phu T; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Johannessen B; Simondson D; Wen H; Chang SLY; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Dai L; Amal R; Daiyan R; Hocking RK, 2025, 'Direct Observation of Electron Donation onto the Reactants and a Transient Poisoning Mechanism During CO2 Electroreduction on Ni Single Atom Catalysts', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202424087

Gunawan M; Bowdler O; Zhou S; Fang X; Zhang Q; Sakamoto Y; Sun K; Gunawan D; Chang SLY; Amal R; Valanoor N; Scott J; Hart JN; Toe CY, 2025, 'Ferroelectric Polarization-Induced Performance Enhancements in BiFeO3/BiVO4 Photoanodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting', Advanced Functional Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202417651

Zhang Q; Shan Y; Pan J; Kumar P; Keevers MJ; Lasich J; Kour G; Daiyan R; Perez-Wurf I; Thomsen L; Cheong S; Jiang J; Wu KH; Chiang CL; Grayson K; Green MA; Amal R; Lu X, 2025, 'A photovoltaic-electrolysis system with high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency under practical current densities', Science Advances, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads0836

Lee CW; Cazorla C; Zhou S; Zhang D; Xu H; Zhong W; Zhang M; Chu D; Han Z; Amal R, 2025, 'Facet Engineering of Cobalt Manganese Oxide for Highly Stable Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction', Advanced Energy Materials, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202402786

Li Q; Gunawan D; Jiang L; Gunawan R; Gunasekara G; Sarmin S; Doyle R; Lai Q; Amal R; Scott J, 2025, 'Recent Advances in Electrochemical Organic Waste Reforming: Highlights on Anodic Chemistry, Materials Design, and System Integration', ACS APPLIED ENGINEERING MATERIALS, 3, pp. 21 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.4c00705

Li Y; Guo J; Yang Y; Wang B; Wen H; Bui TS; Chang SLY; Bedford NM; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R; Hou Y; Tilley R; Xia Z; Dai L, 2025, 'Atomically Dispersed Copper Electrocatalysts with Proton-feeding Centers for Efficient Ammonia Synthesis by Nitrate Electroreduction', Advanced Functional Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202508619

Gunawan M; Jin Y; Leung TC; Bowdler O; Zhou S; Gunawan D; Zhang M; Fang X; Zhang Q; Valanoor N; Amal R; Hart JN; Scott J; Toe CY, 2025, 'Inducing n-type photoanodic behavior in p-type bismuth ferrite via ferroelectric polarization', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d5ta04859a

Zhou S; Liu X; Gunawan M; Shan Y; Zhang M; Lucas S; Satriyatama A; Gunawan D; Wang A; Yuan X; Sun K; Amal R; Hao X, 2025, 'Unassisted Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production Coupled with Selective Glucose Oxidation Using Metal Halide Perovskite Photoanodes', Advanced Functional Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202505281

Gunawan M; Priest M; Gunawan D; Nie S; Satriyatama A; Vongsvivut J; Hameiri Z; Zhang Q; Zhou S; Amal R, 2025, 'Differentiating the role of Ni and Fe in NiFeOx co-catalyzed BiVO4 photoanode for water oxidation', Energy and Environmental Sustainability, 1, pp. 100019 - 100019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eesus.2025.100019

Chung HY; Wong RJ; Wu H; Gunawan D; Amal R; Ng YH, 2025, 'Scalable and Integrated Photocatalytic Reactor Systems for Solar‐to‐Fuel Production: Photoredox and Photoreforming Processes (Adv. Energy Mater. 28/2025)', Advanced Energy Materials, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202570122

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, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202403939

Gunawan M; Zhou S; Gunawan D; Zhang Q; Hart JN; Amal R; Scott J; Valanoor N; Toe CY, 2024, 'Ferroelectric materials as photoelectrocatalysts: photoelectrode design rationale and strategies', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, pp. 1612 - 1640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4ta07812h

Haghshenas Y; Wong WP; Gunawan D; Khataee A; Keyikoğlu R; Razmjou A; Kumar PV; Toe CY; Masood H; Amal R; Sethu V; Teoh WY, 2024, 'Predicting the rates of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over cocatalyst-deposited TiO2 using machine learning with active photon flux as a unifying feature', Ees Catalysis, 2, pp. 612 - 623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00246b

Bui TS; Ma Z; Yuwono JA; Kumar PV; O'Connell GEP; Peng L; Yang Y; Lim M; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Amal R, 2024, 'Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Fe/ZnO Nanoparticles via Tuning Intermediate Adsorption in Alkaline Electrolyte', Advanced Functional Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202408704

Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Tran-Phu T; Qu J; Cairney J; Wang X; Simonov AN; Hocking RK; Johannessen B; Dai L; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2024, 'Impurity Tolerance of Unsaturated Ni-N-C Active Sites for Practical Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction( vol 7 , pg 920 , 2022)', ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 9, pp. 6084 - 6084, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c03153

Alvand M; Ma Z; Kokate R; Kumar PV; Pan J; Amal R; Lovell EC; Jalili AR, 2024, 'Uncovering the role of vanadium doped Ni2P for low concentration urea oxidation', Chemical Engineering Journal, 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.157130

Gunawan D; Zhang J; Li Q; Toe CY; Scott J; Antonietti M; Guo J; Amal R, 2024, 'Materials Advances in Photocatalytic Solar Hydrogen Production: Integrating Systems and Economics for a Sustainable Future', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202404618

Dai L; Amal R; Mao G; Gooding J, 2024, 'Materials Research at the University of New South Wales Over the Last 75 Years', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202415007

Dai L; Amal R; Mao G, 2024, 'The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation at University of New South Wales, Sydney', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202413894

O'Connell GEP; Webster RF; Elkington E; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Shining a light on methane dry reforming - exploring the impact of visible light on carbon formation over Co/xCeO2-Al2O3', Catalysis Science and Technology, 14, pp. 6790 - 6807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4cy00925h

Zhang D; Tsounis C; Peng L; Yin H; Hussain F; Carnell M; Macmillan A; Chu D; Amal R; Han Z, 2024, 'Nitrogen-doped vertical graphene for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis in acidic environment', Chemical Engineering Journal, 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.154221

Ramadhany P; Trần-Phú T; Yuwono JA; Ma Z; Han C; Nguyen TKA; Leverett J; Kumar P; Hocking RK; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Amal R; Daiyan R, 2024, 'Triggering C‒N Coupling on Metal Oxide Nanocomposite for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and NOx⁻ to Formamide', Advanced Energy Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202401786

Lim M; Ma Z; O'Connell G; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Jalili R; Amal R; Daiyan R; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Ru-Induced Defect Engineering in Co3O4 Lattice for High Performance Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonium', Small, 20, pp. e2401333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202401333

Morel J; Grundy S; Brown T; Amal R; Scott J, 2024, 'Enhancing Corrosion Resistance of Titanium Alloys via Hydrothermal Etching: Nanostructure Formation under Varied Temperature Conditions', ACS APPLIED ENGINEERING MATERIALS, 2, pp. 2080 - 2094, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.4c00250

Anh Nguyen TK; Trần-Phú T; Daiyan R; Minh Chau Ta X; Amal R; Tricoli A, 2024, 'From Plastic Waste to Green Hydrogen and Valuable Chemicals Using Sunlight and Water', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202401746

Anh Nguyen TK; Trần‐Phú T; Daiyan R; Minh Chau Ta X; Amal R; Tricoli A, 2024, 'From Plastic Waste to Green Hydrogen and Valuable Chemicals Using Sunlight and Water', Angewandte Chemie, 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202401746

Haghshenas Y; Wong WP; Sethu V; Amal R; Kumar PV; Teoh WY, 2024, 'Full prediction of band potentials in semiconductor materials', Materials Today Physics, 46, pp. 101519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2024.101519

Li Y; Verma V; Su H; Zhang X; Zhou S; Lawson T; Li J; Amal R; Hou Y; Dai L, 2024, 'Rationally Designed Carbon-Based Catalysts for Electrochemical C-N Coupling', Advanced Energy Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202401341

Zhang M; Ma Z; Zhou S; Han C; Kundi V; Kumar PV; Thomsen L; Johannessen B; Peng L; Shan Y; Tsounis C; Yang Y; Pan J; Amal R, 2024, 'Surface Engineering on Ag-Decorated Co3O4 Electrocatalysts for Boosting Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia', ACS Catalysis, 14, pp. 11231 - 11242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c01510

Zhou S; Sun K; Toe CY; Huang J; Wang A; Yuwono J; Kumar P; Wan T; Zhang D; Ma Z; Vongsvivut J; Chu D; Hao X; Amal R, 2024, 'Solar driven ammonia synthesis with Co-TiOx and Ag nanowires enhanced Cu2ZnSnS4 photocathodes', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.123836

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03836j

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