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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Meldola Medal and Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

John S. Foord is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Energy and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrochemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Foord's work include:

  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Foord has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Carbon
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • Materials Today Advances
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Langmuir

Some recent papers by Foord include:

  • A comparative study of fouling-free nanodiamond and nanocarbon electrochemical sensors for sensitive bisphenol A detection, 2020, Carbon
  • Lithium nitrate mediated dynamic formation of solid electrolyte interphase revealed by in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, 2023, Electrochimica Acta
  • Transition metal atom-doped monolayer MoS2 in a proton-exchange membrane electrolyzer, 2020, Materials Today Advances
  • Three-Dimensional PbO2-Modified Carbon Felt Electrode for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Phenol Characterized with In Situ ATR-FTIR, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • High-Yield Electrochemical Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles by Enzyme-Modified Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes, 2020, Langmuir

Foord has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Luyun Jiang
  • Ibon Santiago
  • Jingping Hu
  • Sijing Chen
  • Huijie Hou

Among their recognitions, Foord received the Meldola Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Selective oxidation of methane to synthesis gas using transition metal catalysts

    A. T. Ashcroft;A. K. Cheetham;J. S. Foord;M. L. H. Green

  • Electroanalysis at diamond-like and doped-diamond electrodes

    Richard G. Compton;John S. Foord;Frank Marken

  • Diamond electrochemistry at the nanoscale: A review

    Nianjun Yang;John S. Foord;Xin Jiang

  • An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic investigation of the oxidation of manganese

    J. S. Foord;R. B. Jackman;G. C. Allen

  • Shape‐Dependent Acidity and Photocatalytic Activity of Nb2O5 Nanocrystals with an Active TT (001) Surface

    Yun Zhao;Yun Zhao;Clive Eley;Jingping Hu;John S Foord

  • Electrochemically induced surface modifications of boron-doped diamond electrodes: an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study

    Christiaan H. Goeting;Frank Marken;Aurora Gutiérrez-Sosa;Richard G. Compton

  • Transition metal atom doping of the basal plane of MoS2 monolayer nanosheets for electrochemical hydrogen evolution

    Thomas H. M. Lau;XiaoWei Lu;Jiří Kulhavý;Simson Wu

  • Adsorption and absorption of diatomic gases by zirconium: Studies of the dissociation and diffusion of CO, NO, N2, O2 and D2

    J.S. Foord;P.J. Goddard;R.M. Lambert

  • High carrier mobility in polycrystalline thin film diamond

    Hui Jin Looi;Richard B. Jackman;John S. Foord

  • Reaction mechanisms for the photon-enhanced etching of semiconductors: An investigation of the UV-stimulated interaction of chlorine with Si(100)

    R.B. Jackman;H. Ebert;J.S. Foord

  • Diamond electrodes: Diversity and maturity

    Yasuaki Einaga;John S. Foord;Greg M. Swain

  • Growth of In2O3(100) on Y-stabilized ZrO2(100) by O-plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy

    A. Bourlange;D. J. Payne;R. G. Egdell;J. S. Foord

  • Sono-cathodic stripping voltammetry of manganese at a polished boron-doped diamond electrode: application to the determination of manganese in instant tea

    Andrew J. Saterlay;John S. Foord;Richard G. Compton

  • Surface chemical processes in metal organic molecular-beam epitaxy; Ga deposition from triethylgallium on GaAs(100)

    A. J. Murrell;A. T. S. Wee;D. H. Fairbrother;N. K. Singh

  • Engineering Monolayer 1T-MoS 2 into a BifunctionalElectrocatalyst via Sonochemical Doping of Isolated Transition MetalAtoms

    Thomas H. M. Lau;Simson Wu;Ryuichi Kato;Tai-Sing Wu

  • Shape selective plate-form Ga2O3 with strong metal–support interaction to overlying Pd for hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3OH

    Xiwen Zhou;Jin Qu;Feng Xu;Jingping Hu

  • Why is lead dioxide metallic

    David J. Payne;Russell G. Egdell;Wang Hao;John S. Foord

  • Electrochemistry at boron doped diamond films grown on graphite substrates: redox-, adsorption and deposition processes

    Christiaan H Goeting;Frances Jones;John S Foord;John C Eklund

  • Novel Modifications to Carbon-Based Electrodes to Improve the Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine

    Luyun Jiang;Geoffrey W. Nelson;Julia Abda;John S. Foord

  • Electrochemical analysis of nucleic acids at boron-doped diamond electrodes.

    César Prado;Gerd Uwe Flechsig;Peter Gründler;John S. Foord

  • An STM study of surface structures on WO3(001)

    F.H Jones;K Rawlings;J.S Foord;R.G Egdell

  • Redox properties of undoped 5 nm diamond nanoparticles

    Katherine B. Holt;Christoph Ziegler;Daren J. Caruana;Jianbing Zang

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Jackman
Richard B. Jackman University College London
Frank Marken
Frank Marken University of Bath
Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton University of Oxford
Jingping Hu
Jingping Hu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Russell G. Egdell
Russell G. Egdell University of Oxford
Andrew T. S. Wee
Andrew T. S. Wee National University of Singapore
Dermot O'Hare
Dermot O'Hare University of Oxford
Oliver Aneurin Williams
Oliver Aneurin Williams Cardiff University
Kian Ping Loh
Kian Ping Loh National University of Singapore
David J. Payne
David J. Payne Imperial College London

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