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Richard D. Webster is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on materials science with a significant concentration in materials chemistry. The scientist's work also spans electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, biomedical engineering, and electrochemistry.

Their research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Richard D. Webster's recent papers demonstrate a focus on advanced materials and their applications in sensing, environmental cleanup, and nanotechnology. Selected recent publications include:

  • MXene Titanium Carbide-based Biosensor: Strong Dependence of Exfoliation Method on Performance, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Microrobots Derived from Variety Plant Pollen Grains for Efficient Environmental Clean Up and as an Anti-Cancer Drug Carrier, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Tailoring Metal/TiO2 Interface to Influence Motion of Light-Activated Janus Micromotors, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Mechanochemical Synthesis of Corannulene-Based Curved Nanographenes, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Siloxene, Germanane, and Methylgermanane: Functionalized 2D Materials of Group 14 for Electrochemical Applications, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

The scientist frequently collaborates with several colleagues. Notable coauthors include:

  • Jingsong Zhou
  • Mihaiela C. Stuparu
  • Jovana Stanojkovic
  • Ronny William
  • Zhongbo Zhang

Their publications are often featured in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
  • ChemElectroChem

Best Publications

  • Enhancing sulfacetamide degradation by peroxymonosulfate activation with N-doped graphene produced through delicately-controlled nitrogen functionalization via tweaking thermal annealing processes

    Xiao Chen;Wen-Da Oh;Zhong-Ting Hu;Yuan-Miao Sun

  • Kinetically blocked stable heptazethrene and octazethrene : closed-shell or open-shell in the ground state?

    Yuan Li;WeeKuan Heng;Byungsun Lee;Naoki Aratani

  • Stable tetrabenzo-Chichibabin's hydrocarbons: tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms.

    Zebing Zeng;Youngmo Sung;Nina Bao;Davin Tan

  • Noble metal (Pd, Ru, Rh, Pt, Au, Ag) doped graphene hybrids for electrocatalysis

    Marcella Giovanni;Hwee Ling Poh;Adriano Ambrosi;Guanjia Zhao

  • Direct Visible-Light-Excited Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis of Intermolecular [2+2] Photocycloadditions.

    Xiaoqiang Huang;Taylor R. Quinn;Klaus Harms;Richard D. Webster

  • Comparative evaluation of iodoacids removal by UV/persulfate and UV/H2O2 processes

    Yongjun Xiao;Lifeng Zhang;Wei Zhang;Kok-Yong Lim

  • Electrochemical production of lactic acid from glycerol oxidation catalyzed by AuPt nanoparticles

    Chencheng Dai;Libo Sun;Hanbin Liao;Bahareh Khezri

  • Insights into the thermolytic transformation of lignocellulosic biomass waste to redox-active carbocatalyst: Durability of surface active sites

    Wen-Da Oh;Wen-Da Oh;Grzegorz Lisak;Richard David Webster;Yen-Nan Liang

  • Chemically reduced graphene contains inherent metallic impurities present in parent natural and synthetic graphite

    Adriano Ambrosi;Chun Kiang Chua;Bahareh Khezri;Zdeněk Sofer

  • MXene Titanium Carbide-based Biosensor: Strong Dependence of Exfoliation Method on Performance.

    Hui Ling Chia;Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez;Nikolas Antonatos;Zdeněk Sofer

  • Trace element composition of PM2.5 and PM10 from Kolkata – a heavily polluted Indian metropolis

    Reshmi Das;Bahareh Khezri;Bijayen Srivastava;Subhajit Datta

  • Elucidation of stoichiometric efficiency, radical generation and transformation pathway during catalytic oxidation of sulfamethoxazole via peroxymonosulfate activation.

    Yueping Bao;Wen-Da Oh;Teik-Thye Lim;Rong Wang

  • Mining nutrients (N, K, P) from urban source-separated urine by forward osmosis dewatering

    Jiefeng Zhang;Qianhong She;Victor W. C. Chang;Chuyang Y. Tang

  • Metallic Impurities in Graphenes Prepared from Graphite Can Dramatically Influence Their Properties

    Adriano Ambrosi;Sze Yin Chee;Bahareh Khezri;Richard David Webster

  • Pushing Extended p-Quinodimethanes to the Limit: Stable Tetracyano-oligo(N-annulated perylene)quinodimethanes with Tunable Ground States

    Zebing Zeng;Masatoshi Ishida;José L. Zafra;Xiaojian Zhu

  • Redox processes in microdroplets studied by voltammetry, microscopy and ESR spectroscopy: oxidation ofN,N,N′,N′-tetrahexylphenylene diamine deposited on solid electrode surfaces and immersed in aqueous electrolyte solution

    Frank Marken;Richard D. Webster;Steven D. Bull;Stephen G. Davies

  • Asymmetric Catalysis with Organic Azides and Diazo Compounds Initiated by Photoinduced Electron Transfer

    Xiaoqiang Huang;Richard D. Webster;Klaus Harms;Eric Meggers

  • N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed radical reactions for highly enantioselective β-hydroxylation of enals.

    Yuexia Zhang;Yu Du;Zhijian Huang;Jianfeng Xu

  • Newly developed stepwise electroless deposition enables a remarkably facile synthesis of highly active and stable amorphous Pd nanoparticle electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.

    Kee Chun Poon;Desmond C. L. Tan;Thang D.T. Vo;Bahareh Khezri

  • Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions between Water and the One- and Two-Electron-Reduced Forms of Vitamin K1: Applying Quinone Electrochemistry To Determine the Moisture Content of Non-Aqueous Solvents

    Yanlan Hui;Elaine Lay Khim Chng;Cheryl Yi Lin Chng;Hwee Ling Poh

  • Weathering and photostability of benzoylated wood

    P.D. Evans;N.L. Owen;S. Schmid;R.D. Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Pumera
Martin Pumera Brno University of Technology
Jishan Wu
Jishan Wu National University of Singapore
David Beeson
David Beeson University of Oxford
Zdeněk Sofer
Zdeněk Sofer University of Chemistry and Technology
Teik-Thye Lim
Teik-Thye Lim Nanyang Technological University
Alan M. Bond
Alan M. Bond Monash University
Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton University of Oxford
Yonggui Robin Chi
Yonggui Robin Chi Nanyang Technological University
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Adriano Ambrosi
Adriano Ambrosi Nanyang Technological University

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