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Overview

Kwong-Yu Chan is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a strong emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry as subfields. The scientist's work extends into Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Catalysis.

Their main research topics include:

  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity

Kwong-Yu Chan has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Photoelectrochemistry of oxygen in rechargeable Li-O2 batteries", 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Protonated Emeraldine Polyaniline Threaded MIL-101 as a Conductive High Surface Area Nanoporous Electrode", 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • "Imparting UiO-66 with fast cation exchange property via sulfonating organic linkers for selective adsorption", 2020, Separation and Purification Technology
  • "Irradiation-induced reactions at the CeO2/SiO2/Si interface", 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Durable ruthenium oxide/ceria catalyst with ultralarge mesopores for low-temperature CO oxidation", 2020, Journal of Catalysis

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, among them:

  • Chi-Ying Vanessa Li
  • Ching-Kit Ho
  • Changzhong Liao
  • Chi-Kin Jenkin Tsui
  • Ka-Ming Leung

Publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Chemical Society Reviews
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Materials Today Communications

Best Publications

  • Supported mixed metal nanoparticles as electrocatalysts in low temperature fuel cells

    Kwong-Yu Chan;Jie Ding;Jiawen Ren;Shaoan Cheng

  • Water-in-Oil Microemulsion Synthesis of Platinum−Ruthenium Nanoparticles, Their Characterization and Electrocatalytic Properties

    Xin Zhang;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Effects of toxic metals and chemicals on biofilm and biocorrosion.

    Herbert H.P. Fang;Li Chong Xu;Kwong Yu Chan

  • Quantification of bacterial adhesion forces using atomic force microscopy (AFM).

    Herbert H.P. Fang;Kwong Yu Chan;Li Chong Xu

  • Platinum and platinum-ruthenium nanoparticles supported on ordered mesoporous carbon and their electrocatalytic performance for fuel cell reactions

    Jie Ding;Kwong-Yu Chan;Jiawen Ren;Feng-shou Xiao

  • Enhanced photocatalytic activity in anatase/TiO2(B) core-shell nanofiber

    Wei Li;Chang Liu;Yaxin Zhou;Yang Bai

  • Monte Carlo simulation of an ion-dipole mixture as a model of an electrical double layer

    Dezső Boda;Kwong-Yu Chan;Douglas Henderson

  • Activity of Pd/C for hydrogen generation in aqueous formic acid solution

    Chaoquan Hu;Jayasree K. Pulleri;Siu-Wa Ting;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Enzyme immobilization on amino-functionalized mesostructured cellular foam surfaces, characterization and catalytic properties

    Xin Zhang;Ren-Feng Guan;Dan-Qi Wu;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Synthesis of titania–silica mixed oxide mesoporous materials, characterization and photocatalytic properties

    Xin Zhang;Feng Zhang;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • A parabolic equation with nonlocal boundary conditions arising from electrochemistry

    Y. S. Choi;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Photoelectrochemistry of oxygen in rechargeable Li-O2 batteries.

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  • Monte Carlo study of the capacitance of the double layer in a model molten salt

    Dezső Boda;Douglas Henderson;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Electrochemical degradation of 4-chlorophenol at nickel-antimony doped tin oxide electrode

    Y. H. Wang;K. Y. Chan;X. Y. Li;Shu Kong So

  • Highly thermal stable and highly crystalline anatase TiO2 for photocatalysis.

    Wei Li;Yang Bai;Chang Liu;Zhuhong Yang

  • Anaerobic electrochemical corrosion of mild steel in the presence of extracellular polymeric substances produced by a culture enriched in sulfate-reducing bacteria.

    Kwong Yu Chan;Lichong Xu;Herbert H P Fang

  • Electrolytic Generation of Ozone on Antimony- and Nickel-Doped Tin Oxide Electrode

    Yun-Hai Wang;Shaoan Cheng;Kwong-Yu Chan;Xiao Yan Li

  • Reaction pathways derived from DFT for understanding catalytic decomposition of formic acid into hydrogen on noble metals

    Chaoquan Hu;Siu-Wa Ting;Kwong-Yu Chan;Wei Huang

  • Metal-organic framework threaded with aminated polymer formed in situ for fast and reversible ion exchange.

    Liang Gao;Chi Ying Vanessa Li;Kwong Yu Chan;Zhe Ning Chen

  • Microemulsion synthesis and electrocatalytic properties of platinum–cobalt nanoparticles

    Xin Zhang;Xin Zhang;Kwong-Yu Chan

  • Nafion–polyfurfuryl alcohol nanocomposite membranes for direct methanol fuel cells

    Jin Liu;Huanting Wang;Shaoan Cheng;Kwong-Yu Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Henderson
Douglas Henderson Brigham Young University
Fujun Li
Fujun Li Nankai University
Shaoan Cheng
Shaoan Cheng Zhejiang University
Huanting Wang
Huanting Wang Monash University
Herbert H. P. Fang
Herbert H. P. Fang University of Hong Kong
David Lee Phillips
David Lee Phillips University of Hong Kong
Liang Gao
Liang Gao Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jianfeng Yao
Jianfeng Yao Nanjing Forestry University
Xiaohua Lu
Xiaohua Lu Nanjing Tech University
Xiao-yan Li
Xiao-yan Li University of Hong Kong

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