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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

2026-07-13 Dr. Chengli Rong’s review article “Dynamic cobalt phthalocyanine catalysts for electrochemical CO₂-to-methanol conversion” has been accepted by Coordination Chemistry Reviews.
2026-07-07 Yuan Chen attended the RACI 2026 National Congress in Perth and gave a keynote talk.
2026-06-28 Yuan Chen, together with editors of Carbon, published a perspective article “Carbon science perspective in 2026: Current research and future challenges”.
2026-06-25 PhD student Mr. Yuchen Zhang presented his talk at the 25th World Hydrogen Energy Conference in Singapore.
2026-06-22 PhD student Mr. Xuheng Jiang from Shanghai Jiaotong University visits our lab as a research visitor for three months.
2026-06-15 Our lab hosted a visit by the new DVCR of USYD. Prof. Mike Ryan and the leadership team of his office.
2026-06-11 Prof. Wen-Yueh Yu from National Taiwan University gave a research talk to our group members.
And more…