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Cao-Thang Dinh

Cao-Thang Dinh

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Materials Science

D-Index
67
Citations
36311
World Ranking
4999
National Ranking
75

Overview

Cao-Thang Dinh is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Energy and Chemical Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Ionic liquids properties and applications, Advanced battery technologies research, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications.

Recent publications demonstrate a strong presence in high-impact journals and detail significant advances in electrocatalysis and energy conversion. Selected recent papers include:

  • Accelerated discovery of CO2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning, 2020, Nature
  • CO 2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm −2, 2020, Science
  • Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • CO 2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid, 2021, Science
  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics, 2020, Nature Catalysis

Dinh collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field, including Edward H. Sargent, F. Pelayo García de Arquer, David Sinton, Behnam Nourmohammadi Khiarak, and Joshua Wicks, each contributing to multiple studies with between 9 and 24 joint publications.

The scientist's work regularly appears in prominent venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Catalysis, Nature Energy, ACS Catalysis, and ECS Meeting Abstracts, with each venue featuring four or more of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Homogeneously dispersed, multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

    Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xueli Zheng;Xueli Zheng;Oleksandr Voznyy;Riccardo Comin

  • CO2 electroreduction to ethylene via hydroxide-mediated copper catalysis at an abrupt interface

    Cao-Thang Dinh;Thomas Burdyny;Golam Kibria;Ali Seifitokaldani

  • Enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction via field-induced reagent concentration

    Min Liu;Yuanjie Pang;Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Phil De Luna

  • What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It

    Oleksandr S. Bushuyev;Phil De Luna;Cao Thang Dinh;Ling Tao

  • Accelerated discovery of CO 2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning

    Miao Zhong;Miao Zhong;Kevin Tran;Yimeng Min;Chuanhao Wang

  • CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm−2

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Cao-Thang Dinh;Adnan Ozden;Joshua Wicks

  • Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption

    Yuhang Wang;Aoni Xu;Ziyun Wang;Linsong Huang

  • Designing materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide recycling

    Michael B. Ross;Michael B. Ross;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Yifan Li;Yifan Li;Cao-Thang Dinh;Cao-Thang Dinh

  • CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid

    Jianan Erick Huang;Fengwang Li;Fengwang Li;Adnan Ozden;Armin Sedighian Rasouli

  • Electrochemical CO2 Reduction into Chemical Feedstocks: From Mechanistic Electrocatalysis Models to System Design.

    Golam Kibria;Jonathan P Edwards;Christine M Gabardo;Cao-Thang Dinh

  • Molecular tuning of CO2-to-ethylene conversion.

    Fengwang Li;Arnaud Thevenon;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Ziyun Wang

  • Catalyst electro-redeposition controls morphology and oxidation state for selective carbon dioxide reduction

    Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Rafael Quintero-Bermudez;Cao-Thang Dinh;Michael B. Ross;Michael B. Ross

  • Steering post-C–C coupling selectivity enables high efficiency electroreduction of carbon dioxide to multi-carbon alcohols

    Tao-Tao Zhuang;Tao-Tao Zhuang;Zhi-Qin Liang;Ali Seifitokaldani;Yi Li

  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics

    Bo Zhang;Lie Wang;Zhen Cao;Sergey M. Kozlov

  • Multi-site electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution in neutral media by destabilization of water molecules

    Cao-Thang Dinh;Ankit Jain;F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Phil De Luna

  • Cooperative CO2-to-ethanol conversion via enriched intermediates at molecule–metal catalyst interfaces

    Fengwang Li;Yuguang C. Li;Ziyun Wang;Jun Li

  • Efficient electrically powered CO2-to-ethanol via suppression of deoxygenation

    Xue Wang;Ziyun Wang;F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Cao Thang Dinh

  • Theory-driven design of high-valence metal sites for water oxidation confirmed using in situ soft X-ray absorption

    Xueli Zheng;Xueli Zheng;Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Phil De Luna;Yufeng Liang

  • Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly

    Christine M. Gabardo;Colin P. O’Brien;Jonathan P. Edwards;Christopher McCallum

  • Binding Site Diversity Promotes CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol.

    Yuguang C Li;Ziyun Wang;Tiange Yuan;Dae-Hyun Nam

  • Nanocomposite heterojunctions as sunlight-driven photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water splitting

    Mohammad Reza Gholipour;Cao-Thang Dinh;François Béland;Trong-On Do

  • Shape-controlled synthesis of highly crystalline titania nanocrystals.

    Cao-Thang Dinh;Thanh-Dinh Nguyen;Freddy Kleitz;Trong-On Do

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University
David Sinton
David Sinton University of Toronto
Trong-On Do
Trong-On Do Université Laval
Jun Li
Jun Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
F. Pelayo García de Arquer
F. Pelayo García de Arquer ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Min Liu
Min Liu Central South University
Oleksandr Voznyy
Oleksandr Voznyy University of Toronto
Thomas Burdyny
Thomas Burdyny Delft University of Technology
Freddy Kleitz
Freddy Kleitz University of Vienna
Shana O. Kelley
Shana O. Kelley Northwestern University

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