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Overview

Deryn Chu is affiliated with the United States Army Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on energy-related fields, with significant contributions to materials science and engineering.

Their work covers various subfields including:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology

Chu's research topics span:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides

Frequent co-authors include Jiangtian Li, David R. Baker, Enoch A. Nagelli, Rongzhong Jiang, and F. John Burpo.

Chu has published in a variety of venues, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Materials
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Examples of recent publications are:

  • "Earth-Abundant Fe and Ni Dually Doped Co2P for Superior Oxygen Evolution Reactivity and as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst toward Renewable Energy-Powered Overall Alkaline Water Splitting" (2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials)
  • "Seamless separation of OHadand Hadon a Ni-O catalyst toward exceptional alkaline hydrogen evolution" (2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A)
  • "Scalable Carbon Nanotube/Platinum Nanoparticle Composite Inks from Salt Templates for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysis for PEM Fuel Cells" (2020, Journal of Composites Science)
  • "XPS Depth Profiling of Surface Restructuring Responsible for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity of Nickel Sulfides in Alkaline Electrolyte" (2025, Materials)
  • "(Invited) Earth-Abundant Ni-Mo-S Based Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Efficient Water Splitting" (2020, ECS Transactions)

Best Publications

  • Unraveling Oxygen Reduction Reaction Mechanisms on Carbon-Supported Fe-Phthalocyanine and Co-Phthalocyanine Catalysts in Alkaline Solutions

    Rongrong Chen;Haixia Li;Deryn Chu;Guofeng Wang

  • Methanol Electro‐oxidation on Unsupported Pt‐Ru Alloys at Different Temperatures

    Deryn Chu;Sol Gilman

  • Improving Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activities on Carbon-Supported Ag Nanoparticles in Alkaline Solutions

    Junsong Guo;Andrew Hsu;Deryn Chu;Rongrong Chen

  • Preparation of alkaline anion exchange membranes based on functional poly(ether-imide) polymers for potential fuel cell applications

    Guigui Wang;Yiming Weng;Deryn Chu;Dong Xie

  • Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reactivity by Igniting Double Exchange Interaction in Spinel Oxides.

    Jiangtian Li;Deryn Chu;Hong Dong;David R. Baker

  • Developing a polysulfone-based alkaline anion exchange membrane for improved ionic conductivity

    Guigui Wang;Yiming Weng;Deryn Chu;Rongrong Chen

  • Comparison of ethanol electro-oxidation on Pt/C and Pd/C catalysts in alkaline media

    Liang Ma;Deryn Chu;Rongrong Chen

  • Performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stacks. Part I. Evaluation and simulation of an air-breathing PEMFC stack

    Deryn Chu;Rongzhong Jiang

  • Ethanol electro-oxidation on Pt/C and PtSn/C catalysts in alkaline and acid solutions

    L. Jiang;A. Hsu;D. Chu;R. Chen

  • Novel electrocatalysts for direct methanol fuel cells

    Deryn Chu;Rongzhong Jiang

  • Size-Dependent Activity of Palladium Nanoparticles for Oxygen Electroreduction in Alkaline Solutions

    L. Jiang;A. Hsu;D. Chu;R. Chen

  • Remarkably Active Catalysts for the Electroreduction of O 2 to H 2 O for Use in an Acidic Electrolyte Containing Concentrated Methanol

    Rongzhong Jiang;Deryn Chu

  • The Influence of Methanol on O 2 Electroreduction at a Rotating Pt Disk Electrode in Acid Electrolyte

    Deryn Chu;Sol Gilman

  • Comparative Studies of Methanol Crossover and Cell Performance for a DMFC

    Rongzhong Jiang;Deryn Chu

  • A Class of (Pd–Ni–P) Electrocatalysts for the Ethanol Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Media

    Rongzhong Jiang;Dat T. Tran;Joshua P. McClure;Deryn Chu

  • Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Carbon Supported Pt and Pd in Alkaline Solutions

    L. Jiang;A. Hsu;D. Chu;R. Chen

  • Comparative studies of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell stack and single cell

    Deryn Chu;Rongzhong Jiang

  • Experimental data on aluminum dissolution in KOH electrolytes

    Deryn Chu;Robert F. Savinell

  • Stack design and performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

    Rongzhong Jiang;Deryn Chu

  • Quaternized poly(methyl methacrylate-co-butyl acrylate-co-vinylbenzyl chloride) membrane for alkaline fuel cells

    Yanting Luo;Juchen Guo;Chunsheng Wang;Deryn Chu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chunsheng Wang
Chunsheng Wang University of Maryland, College Park
Juchen Guo
Juchen Guo University of California, Riverside
Luhua Jiang
Luhua Jiang Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Paul A. Kohl
Paul A. Kohl Georgia Institute of Technology
Nianqiang Wu
Nianqiang Wu University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wilson K. S. Chiu
Wilson K. S. Chiu University of Connecticut
Jerome J. Cuomo
Jerome J. Cuomo North Carolina State University
Guofeng Wang
Guofeng Wang University of Pittsburgh
Gregory N. Parsons
Gregory N. Parsons North Carolina State University
Ernest Yeager
Ernest Yeager Case Western Reserve University

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