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Carbon materials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphite, carbon black, hard/soft carbon, porous carbon, activated carbon, and carbon fibers, have numerous applications due to their exceptional electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties. These properties rely on their unique nanoscale structures.

The Advanced Carbon Research lab, led by Prof. Yuan Chen at the University of Sydney, focuses on developing scalable, novel processes to synthesize carbon materials with controllable structures and low greenhouse gas emissions, assemble carbon materials and other materials into functional macroscale composites, and use these novel materials for sustainable energy and environmental applications.

Latest news

2025-12-15 Ms. Xinyi Huang and Dr. Chengli Rong’s review article “From electronic structure to catalytic function: Rare earth–driven strategies for CO₂ electroreduction” has been accepted by Small.
2025-12-09 Dr. Jiakang You’s review article “Recent Advances in Strong Metal–Support Interaction Engineering for Dry Reforming of Methane Catalysts” has been accepted by Small.
2025-11-18-20 Yuan Chen, Chengli Rong, and Fangzhou Liu attend the GetCO2 National Conference.
2025-10-28-29 At the invitation of The Institution of Engineers, Singapore, Yuan Chen led a four-member team to conduct the Washington Accord accreditation review of the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Engineering program at Singapore Institute of Technology.
2025-10-27 Yuan Chen gave an invited talk at School of Materials Science and Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2025-10-20 Xugang Si, Hang Li, and Yichen Feng join our group as PhD students.
And more…