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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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2026-09-09 We hosted several international colleagues (Prof. Chi-Chang Hu, Prof. Wei-Ren Liu, Prof. Shochiku Kure, Prof. Xuning Li, Dr. Ben Huang, and Dr. Adil Riaz) to visit our lab, followed by research presentations and discussions.
2026-09-06 Yuan Chen attended the 77th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Sydney, delivered a keynote lecture, chaired a scientific session, and joined a panel discussion for early-career researchers.
2026-08-23-28 Yuan Chen attended the NT26 conference in Berlin, gave a talk, and chaired several sections.
2026-08-13 Ms. Xin Yang’s paper “Orders-of-magnitude reactivity enhancement in persulfate activation by curvature-dependent oxygenated carbon nanotubes” has been accepted by Chemical Engineering Journal.
2026-07-16 Mr. Jiacheng Wu’s work, “Breaking the kinetics–loading trade-off in zinc-ion hybrid capacitors through synergistic electron–ion transport design”, has been accepted by Advanced Science.
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.
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