Dr Xiao Lin

  • Visiting Fellow in Chemical Engineering
Xiao Lin

Selected list of recent publications:

  1. “Solar-driven Redox-catalysed Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026, e4885694. .  Hot Paper.
  2. “Pt@Co(OH)2 Nanoarrays Supported on Nickel Foam as An Enabling Catalytic Electrode for Efficient and Stable Seawater Electrolysis”, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2026, 391, 126676. .
  3. “Accelerating Hydrogen Evolution Rate and Preventing Metal Hydroxide Deposition in Seawater Electrolysis via Addition of Chelating Agent EDTA-Na4”, Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2026, 114, 686-698. .
  4. “Highly selective and stable ammonia electro-oxidation over zirconium promoted NiCu oxide nanosheets”, Green Carbon, 2026, DOI: .
  5. “Driving superionic transport in high-entropy oxide/fluorite heterostructure electrolytes for boosting fuel cell performance”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026, 531, 174004.
  6. “Engineering Low-cost Ni-Fe-Mo Bifunctional Catalysts into High-performance Superaerophobic Nanoarray Electrodes for Hydrogen Production via Water and Seawater Electrolysis at Industrial-scale Current Density”, ChemCatChem, 2025, 17, e01040, DOI:
  7. “Catalytic electrode comprising a gas diffusion layer and bubble-involved mass transfer in anion exchange membrane water electrolysis: A critical review and perspectives”, J. of Energy Chemistry, 2025, 105, 669-701. DOI: .
  8. “Engineering Grain Boundaries of Cu-based Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction to Multi-carbon Products with High Selectivity and Durability”, Carbon and Hydrogen, 2025, 27, 463-472. DOI:
  9. “Advancements in the in-situ growth of catalysts for water electrolysis: Substrate considerations, performance evaluations, and future perspectives”, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024, 47, 101566. DOI: 
  10. “Insights into the Origin of High Activity of Ni5P4(0001) for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127, 5385–5394.
  11. “The role of microtubules in microalgae: promotion of lipid accumulation and extraction”, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, 2023, 16:7. DOI:
  12. “Highly efficient harvesting and lipid extraction of limnetic chlorella sorokiniana SDEC-18 grown in seawater for microalgal biofuel production”, Algal Research 2022, 66, 102813. DOI:  
  13. “Insights into reaction mechanisms of ethanol electrooxidation at the Pt/Au(111) interfaces using density functional theory, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022, 24, 27277-27288.  
  14. “Layered double hydroxide-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction: identification and tailoring of active sites, and superaerophobic nanoarray electrode assembly”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021, 50, 8790-8817. DOI: Awarded top 5% of highly cited articles by the Royal Society of Chemistry
  15. “Ru nanoparticles supported on partially reduced TiO2 as highly efficient catalyst for hydrogen evolution”, Nano Energy, 2021, 88, 106211.
  16. “High-Index-Facet- and High-Surface-Energy Nanocrystals of Metals and Metal Oxides as Highly Efficient Catalysts”, Joule, 2020, 4, 2562-2598.
  17. “Electrochemical oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide via a two-electron transfer pathway on carbon-based single-atom catalysts”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 2001360.
  18. “Insights into ethanol electrooxidation over solvated Pt(100): Origin of selectivity and kinetics revealed by DFT”, Applied Surface Science, 2020, 533, 147505.
  19. “Understanding of dynamic contacting behaviours of underwater gas bubbles on solid surfaces”, Langmuir, 2020, 36, 11422-11428.
  20. “Anti-buoyancy and unidirectional gas evolution by Janus electrodes with asymmetric wettability”, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 23627–23634
  21. “Electronic coupling strategy to boost water oxidation efficiency based on the modelling of trimetallic hydroxides Ni1-x-yFexCry (OH)2: From theory to experiment”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 402, 126144. DOI: .