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Leigh Aldous is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom, specializing in research across materials science, engineering, and chemistry. Their work notably intersects with subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, polymers and plastics, and electrochemistry.

Aldous's research primarily focuses on advanced battery technologies, thermoelectric materials and devices, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, electrochemical analysis, conducting polymers, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, and battery materials and technologies. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach within materials science and energy-related fields.

Frequent coauthors of Aldous include Mark A. Buckingham, Yuqing Liu, Jun Chen, Kristine Laws, and Yuetong Zhou, indicating collaborative work often published in diverse scientific venues.

Key recent publications by Aldous include the following:

  • "Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting," 2020, published in Advanced Energy Materials
  • "A fundamental study of the thermoelectrochemistry of ferricyanide/ferrocyanide: cation, concentration, ratio, and heterogeneous and homogeneous electrocatalysis effects in thermogalvanic cells," 2020, Sustainable Energy & Fuels
  • "Novel porous thermosensitive gel electrolytes for wearable thermo-electrochemical cells," 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Thermogalvanic and Thermocapacitive Behavior of Superabsorbent Hydrogels for Combined Low-Temperature Thermal Energy Conversion and Harvesting," 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • "Thermogalvanic cells: A side-by-side comparison of measurement methods," 2020, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

These publications appear in varied venues, with multiple contributions to Chemical Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Green Chemistry, Advanced Energy Materials, and Chemical Engineering Journal, reflecting a broad dissemination of their findings within the scientific community.

The body of Aldous's work contributes to advancements in wearable energy harvesting devices and the detailed understanding of thermogalvanic and thermo-electrochemical cells. Their collaborations and publication record suggest active engagement in developing materials and devices for energy conversion and storage.

Best Publications

  • Effect of Water on the Electrochemical Window and Potential Limits of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Aoife M. O’Mahony;Debbie S. Silvester;Leigh Aldous;Christopher Hardacre

  • Voltammetric Characterization of the Ferrocene|Ferrocenium and Cobaltocenium|Cobaltocene Redox Couples in RTILs

    Emma I. Rogers;Debbie S. Silvester;Darren L. Poole;Leigh Aldous

  • Electrochemistry of sulfur and polysulfides in ionic liquids.

    Ninie S. A. Manan;Leigh Aldous;Yatimah Alias;Paul Murray

  • Phenazine virulence factor binding to extracellular DNA is important for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation

    Theerthankar Das;Samuel K. Kutty;Roya Tavallaie;Amaye I. Ibugo

  • Electrochemical reduction of nitrobenzene and 4-nitrophenol in the room temperature ionic liquid [C4dmim][N(Tf)2]

    Debbie S. Silvester;Andrew J. Wain;Leigh Aldous;Christopher Hardacre

  • Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting

    Yuqing Liu;Yuqing Liu;Shuai Zhang;Yuetong Zhou;Mark Buckingham

  • The effect of changing the components of an ionic liquid upon the solubility of lignin

    William E. S. Hart;Jason B. Harper;Leigh Aldous

  • Electrochemical studies of gold and chloride in ionic liquids

    Leigh Aldous;Debbie S. Silvester;Constanza Villagrán;William R. Pitner

  • Ionic Liquids for Lignin Processing: Dissolution, Isolation, and Conversion

    Md. Mokarrom Hossain;Leigh Aldous

  • Toward membrane-free amperometric gas sensors: a microelectrode array approach.

    Xing-Jiu Huang;Leigh Aldous;Aoife M. O’Mahony;F. Javier del Campo

  • The use of nano-carbon as an alternative to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in modified electrodes for adsorptive stripping voltammetry

    Tsz W.B. Lo;Leigh Aldous;Leigh Aldous;Richard G. Compton

  • An electrochemical study of the oxidation of hydrogen at platinum electrodes in several room temperature ionic liquids.

    Debbie S. Silvester;Leigh Aldous;Christopher Hardacre;Richard G. Compton

  • The thermoelectrochemistry of the aqueous iron(II)/iron(III) redox couple: significance of the anion and pH in thermogalvanic thermal-to-electrical energy conversion

    Mark A. Buckingham;Frank Marken;Leigh Aldous

  • Unusual Voltammetry of the Reduction of O2 in [C4dmim][N(Tf)2] Reveals a Strong Interaction of O2•− with the [C4dmim]+ Cation

    Alexander S. Barnes;Emma I. Rogers;Ian Streeter;Leigh Aldous

  • Thermoelectrochemistry using conventional and novel gelled electrolytes in heat-to-current thermocells

    Jimmy Wu;Jeffrey J. Black;Leigh Aldous

  • The electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen at activated platinum electrodes in room temperature ionic liquids as solvents

    Debbie S. Silvester;Kristopher R. Ward;Leigh Aldous;Christopher Hardacre

  • Electrochemical oxidation of nitrite and the oxidation and reduction of NO2 in the room temperature ionic liquid [C2mim][NTf2].

    Tessa L. Broder;Debbie S. Silvester;Leigh Aldous;Christopher Hardacre

  • The mechanism of hydrazine electro-oxidation revealed by platinum microelectrodes: role of residual oxides

    Leigh Aldous;Richard G. Compton

  • One-step synthesis of fluorescein modified nano-carbon for Pd(II) detection via fluorescence quenching

    Janjira Panchompoo;Leigh Aldous;Matthew Baker;Mark I. Wallace

  • Voltammetric studies of gold, protons, and [HCl2](-) in ionic liquids

    Leigh Aldous;Debbie S. Silvester;William R. Pitner;Richard G. Compton

  • Electrochemical kinetics of Ag|Ag+ and TMPD|TMPD+ in the room-temperature ionic liquid [C4mpyrr][NTf2]; toward optimizing reference electrodes for voltammetry in RTILs

    Emma I. Rogers;Debbie S. Silvester;Sarah E Ward Jones;Leigh Aldous

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton University of Oxford
Christopher Hardacre
Christopher Hardacre University of Manchester
Chuan Zhao
Chuan Zhao University of New South Wales
Chaopeng Fu
Chaopeng Fu Hunan University
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nankai University
Alison Crossley
Alison Crossley University of Oxford
Yatimah Alias
Yatimah Alias University of Malaya
Neil V. Rees
Neil V. Rees University of Birmingham
Frank Marken
Frank Marken University of Bath
Masayoshi Watanabe
Masayoshi Watanabe Yokohama National University

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