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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.

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2026-06-01-05 Yuan Chen, Yangyang Wang, and Jiacheng Wu attended the 2026 China–Australia Innovation Week in Shanghai. Yuan Chen delivered a research presentation and participated in two panel discussions, visited the In-Situ Center for Physical Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, College of Textile Science and Engineering of Jiangnan University, and attended the International Materials Chemistry Forum at Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research of the University of Science and Technology of China.
2025-05-15 ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) hosted Sydney Node Spotlight at USYD.
2025-05-14 Mr. Minghao Zhang’s article “Bismuth–carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries: Mechanistic challenges and future design directions” has been accepted by Batteries & Supercaps.
2025-05-07 Mr. Yuchen Zhang’s review article “Recent advances in life cycle assessment of methane pyrolysis for sustainable hydrogen production” has been accepted by Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research.
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