In this newsletter

• EMCR committee
• RCAST visit
• CI workshop and UQ Node Spotlight
• New Centre members
• inSTEM & Melbourne Node Spotlight
• World Science Festival Brisbane: Labs Unlocked
• Electrochimica Acta & ISE Travel Awards for Young Electrochemists
• Opportunity: 3-year postdoctoral fellowships in Spain
• Upcoming events
• Publications

New Centre members

We wish all our new centre members a big welcome to the GETCO2 community:

• PhD Student Mengmeng Jin, UoA
• Node Administrator Tammika Hutton, UoA
• Senior Research Assistant Kalyssa Sidoti, UQ
• Casual Research Assistant Aswangga Andrikaputra, UQ

Melbourne Node Spotlight

We are excited to welcome you to Melbourne's first GETCO2 Node Spotlight on 26 May 2025 - the day before inSTEM! The event is hosted by RMIT with presentations from Melbourne-based Chief Investigators (RMIT and Monash), Associate Investigators, Partner Investigators, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD Students.
We will have a poster session and plenty of opportunities for networking.

Look out for a separate email communication with details!

Upcoming events

• 27-28 March 2025: World Science Festival Brisbane - Labs Unlocked: ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) – learn more and register
• 3 April 2025: GETCO2 Workshop on Computational Work - learn more and register
• 26 May 2025: GETCO2 Melbourne Node Spotlight, RMIT University
• 27-28th May 2025: inSTEM Naarm/Melbourne, RMIT University
• 22-24 July 2025: GETCO2 Winter School UQ – EMCR laboratory-based Electrolysis Masterclass; Combined with Experiment Design and Data Analysis Bootcamp, Brisbane
• 18-21 November 2025:  GETCO2 annual retreat, Sydney
• 8-11 December 2025: IMSTEC2025 Gold Coast, International Membrane Science and Technology Conference, co-organiser: A/Prof Jingwei Hou
• 15-20 December 2025: Pacifichem2025 Hawaii, the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Electrochemical CO2 Capture and Conversion (#CES018); Organisers: Fengwang Li, David Sinton, Dawei Feng

Recent publications

For more publications, including 2023, see getco2.org.

Afzal, R. A., P. K. Annamalai, M. Tebyetekerwa, P. Burey, J. Bell, A. K. Nanjundan, and D. J. Martin. "Sustainable Carbon for Energy Storage Applications: Investigation on Chemical Refinements of Sorghum Biomass for Tuneability of Carbon Structures and Supercapacitor Performance." Article. RSC Sustainability  (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/d4su00569d. 

Assafiri, Aya, Chen Jia, Donald S. Thomas, David B. Hibbert, and Chuan Zhao. "Fast and Sensitive Detection of Ammonia from Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reactions by 1h Nmr with Radiation Damping." Small Methods 8, no. 8 (2024/08/01 2024): 2301373. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301373. 

Chen, Guoliang, Lei Ge, Yizhu Kuang, Hesamoddin Rabiee, Beibei Ma, Fatereh Dorosti, Ashok Kumar Nanjundan, Zhonghua Zhu, and Hao Wang. "Hollow Fiber Gas-Diffusion Electrodes with Tailored Crystal Facets for Tuning Syngas Production in Electrochemical Co2 Reduction." Chemical Engineering Journal 490 (2024/06/15/ 2024): 151651. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.151651. 

Chen, Guoliang, Lei Ge, Yizhu Kuang, Hesamoddin Rabiee, Beibei Ma, Fatereh Dorosti, Ashok Kumar Nanjundan, Zhonghua Zhu, and Hao Wang. "In Situ Growth of Hierarchical Silver Sub-Nanosheets on Zinc Nanosheets-Based Hollow Fiber Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Electrochemical Co2 Reduction to Co." Small Science 4, no. 10 (2024/10/01 2024): 2400184. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202400184. 

Chen, Zhijie, Tianyi Ma, Wei Wei, Wai-Yeung Wong, Chuan Zhao, and Bing-Jie Ni. "Work Function-Guided Electrocatalyst Design." Advanced Materials 36, no. 29 (2024/07/01 2024): 2401568. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202401568. 

Deng, H., T. Liu, W. Zhao, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. Zhang, Y. Yang, et al. "Substituent Tuning of Cu Coordination Polymers Enables Carbon-Efficient Co2 Electroreduction to Multi-Carbon Products." Article. Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 9706. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54107-2. 

Dieu Thuy, U. T., T. N. Huan, S. Zanna, K. Wilson, A. F. Lee, N. D. Le, J. Mensah, V. D. B. C. Dasireddy, and N. Q. Liem. "Cu and Zn Promoted Al-Fumarate Metal Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Co2 Reduction." Article. RSC Advances 14, no. 5 (2024): 3489-97. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ra07639c. 

Fatereh Dorosti, Dr. Lei Ge, Prof. Hao Wang, Prof. John Bell, Rijia Lin, Jingwei Hou, Prof. Zhonghua Zhu. "Non-Selective Defect Minimization Towards Highly Efficient Metal-Organic Framework Membranes for Gas Separation." Angewandte Chemie - International Edition  (2024). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202417513. 

Guo, H., S. Wu, W. Chen, Z. Su, Q. Wang, N. Sharma, C. Rong, et al. "Hydronium Intercalation Enables High Rate in Hexagonal Molybdate Single Crystals." Article. Advanced Materials 36, no. 6 (2024): 2307118. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202307118. 

Hesamoddin Rabiee, Beibei Ma, Yu Yang, Fengwang Li, Penghui Yan, Yuming Wu, Xueqin Zhang, Shihu Hu, Hao Wang, Lei Ge, Zhonghua Zhu. "Advances and Challenges of Carbon-Free Gas-Diffusion Electrodes (Gdes) for Electrochemical Co2 Reduction." Advanced Functional Materials  (2024). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202411195. 

Huang, W., B. Chan, Y. Yang, P. Chen, J. Wang, L. Casey, C. Atzori, et al. "Intermarrying Mof Glass and Lead Halide Perovskites for Artificial Photosynthesis." Article. Journal of the American Chemical Society  (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12619. 

Mohamed Mohsin, Hanan, Yuting Zhuo, and Yansong Shen. "Eulerian-Eulerian-Vof Multifluid Modelling of Liquid–Gas Reacting Flow for Hydrogen Generation in an Alkaline Water Electrolyser." Fuel 373 (2024/10/01/ 2024): 132164. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.132164. 

Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Mengran Li, Penghui Yan, Yuming Wu, Xueqin Zhang, Fatereh Dorosti, Xi Zhang, et al. "Rational Designing MicFlooding Controoenvironment of Gas-Diffusion Electrodes Via Microgel-Augmented Co2 Availability for High-Rate and Selective Co2 Electroreduction to Ethylene." Advanced Science 11, no. 40 (2024/10/01 2024): 2402964. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202402964. 

Rong, Chengli, Shuhao Wang, Xin Shen, Chen Jia, Qian Sun, Qiang Zhang, and Chuan Zhao. "Defect-Balanced Active and Stable Co3o4−X for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis at Ampere-Level Current Density." 10.1039/D4EE00977K. Energy & Environmental Science 17, no. 12 (2024): 4196-204. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EE00977K. 

Sun, K., M. Tebyetekerwa, H. Zhang, X. Zeng, Z. Wang, Z. Xu, T. E. Rufford, and X. Zhang. "Electrode, Electrolyte, and Membrane Materials for Electrochemical Co2 Capture." Review. Advanced Energy Materials 14, no. 24 (2024): 2400625. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202400625. 

Sun, X., J. Yang, X. Zeng, L. Guo, C. Bie, Z. Wang, K. Sun, et al. "Pairing Oxygen Reduction and Water Oxidation for Dual-Pathway H2o2 Production." Short survey. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition  (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202414417. 

Wang, Y., Z. Wu, F. M. Azad, Y. Zhu, L. Wang, C. J. Hawker, A. K. Whittaker, M. Forsyth, and C. Zhang. "Fluorination in Advanced Battery Design." Review. Nature Reviews Materials 9, no. 2 (2024): 119-33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-023-00623-4. 

Wang, Z., T. Hu, M. Tebyetekerwa, X. Zeng, F. Du, Y. Kang, X. Li, et al. "Electricity Generation from Carbon Dioxide Adsorption by Spatially Nanoconfined Ion Separation." Article. Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 2672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47040-x. 

Xiao, Y., K. Dastafkan, Z. Su, C. Rong, and C. Zhao. "Decoupling the Contributions of Industrially Relevant Conditions to the Stability of Binary and Ternary Feni-Based Catalysts for Alkaline Water Oxidation." Article. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11, no. 36 (2023): 19418-26. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ta03905f.

Yang, Y., Y. Shi, and F. Li. "Visualizing Active Species in Co2 Electroreduction." Note. Chem Catalysis 4, no. 12 (2024): 101230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2024.101230. 

Yang, Z., Y. Zhu, X. Tan, S. J. J. Gunjal, P. Dewapriya, Y. Wang, R. Xin, et al. "Fluoropolymer Sorbent for Efficient and Selective Capturing of Per- and Polyfluorinated Compounds." Article. Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 8269. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52690-y.

Zhang, Yijie, Kamran Dastafkan, Qiang Zhao, Jinping Li, Chuan Zhao, and Guang Liu. "Stable Tetravalent Ni Species Generated by Reconstruction of Feb-Wrapped Nimoo Pre-Catalysts Enable Efficient Water Oxidation at Large Current Densities." Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 341 (2024/02/01/ 2024): 123297. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123297. 

Zhao, Y. Y., W. Yu, X. Sun, H. Huang, F. Li, and M. Luo. "Harnessing Electrolyte Chemistry to Advance Oxygen Reduction Catalysis for Fuel Cells and Electrosynthesis." Review. ACS Catalysis 14, no. 22 (2024): 16963-85. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c05425. 
Zhao, Yong, Zhen Shi, Feng Li, Chen Jia, Qian Sun, Zhen Su, and Chuan Zhao. "Deciphering Mesopore-Augmented Co2 Electroreduction over Atomically Dispersed Fe–N-Doped Carbon Catalysts." ACS Catalysis 14, no. 6 (2024/03/15 2024): 3926-32. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c05144.  

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