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Overview

Shaowei Chen is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting engineering and materials science, with extensive work in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Additional study areas include organic chemistry and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics related to energy conversion and advanced materials. The main topics of Chen's work include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

Shaowei Chen's recent publications demonstrate active engagement in cutting-edge electrocatalysis and photocatalysis research. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Visible-Light-Driven Nitrogen Fixation Catalyzed by Bi5O7Br Nanostructures: Enhanced Performance by Oxygen Vacancies," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Electrocatalysis of Single-Atom Sites: Impacts of Atomic Coordination," 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Recent Progress in Electrode Fabrication for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: A Mini Review," 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Graphene Composites with Ru-RuO2 Heterostructures: Highly Efficient Mott-Schottky-Type Electrocatalysts for pH-Universal Water Splitting and Flexible Zinc-Air Batteries," 2021, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

The frequent collaborators working with Shaowei Chen include Qiming Liu, Forrest Nichols, Bingzhe Yu, Dingjie Pan, and F. Bridges. This network reflects interdisciplinary cooperation in advancing materials and catalysis research.

Chen has contributed extensively to several recurring publication venues, reflecting their research focus. These venues include:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Small
  • Langmuir

Best Publications

  • Gold nanoelectrodes of varied size: Transition to molecule-like charging

    Shaowei Chen;Roychelle S. Ingram;Michael J. Hostetler;Jeremy J. Pietron

  • Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites.

    Yuxuan Wang;Hongyang Su;Yanghua He;Ligui Li

  • Nanosized Carbon Particles From Natural Gas Soot

    Lei Tian;Lei Tian;Debraj Ghosh;Wei Chen;Sulolit Pradhan

  • Recent developments of carbon-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

    Weijia Zhou;Weijia Zhou;Jin Jia;Jia Lu;Linjing Yang

  • Carbon-Supported Single Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.

    Yi Peng;Bingzhang Lu;Shaowei Chen

  • Mesoporous N-Doped Carbons Prepared with Thermally Removable Nanoparticle Templates: An Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Wenhan Niu;Ligui Li;Xiaojun Liu;Nan Wang

  • Oxygen Electroreduction Catalyzed by Gold Nanoclusters: Strong Core Size Effects

    Wei Chen;Shaowei Chen

  • Ruthenium atomically dispersed in carbon outperforms platinum toward hydrogen evolution in alkaline media.

    Bingzhang Lu;Lin Guo;Lin Guo;Feng Wu;Yi Peng

  • Water-Soluble, Isolable Gold Clusters Protected by Tiopronin and Coenzyme A Monolayers

    Allen C. Templeton;Shaowei Chen;Stephen M. Gross;Royce W. Murray

  • One-Pot Synthesis, Photoluminescence, and Electrocatalytic Properties of Subnanometer-Sized Copper Clusters

    Wentao Wei;Yizhong Lu;Wei Chen;Shaowei Chen

  • Ultrathin N-Doped Mo2C Nanosheets with Exposed Active Sites as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

    Jin Jia;Tanli Xiong;Lili Zhao;Fulei Wang

  • Removal of As(III) and As(V) from aqueous solutions using nanoscale zero valent iron-reduced graphite oxide modified composites.

    Can Wang;Hanjin Luo;Hanjin Luo;Zilong Zhang;Yan Wu

  • Visible-Light-Driven Nitrogen Fixation Catalyzed by Bi5O7Br Nanostructures: Enhanced Performance by Oxygen Vacancies.

    Peishen Li;Ziang Zhou;Qiang Wang;Ming Guo

  • Ultrahigh‐Performance Pseudocapacitor Electrodes Based on Transition Metal Phosphide Nanosheets Array via Phosphorization: A General and Effective Approach

    Kai Zhou;Weijia Zhou;Linjing Yang;Jia Lu

  • Gateway Reactions to Diverse, Polyfunctional Monolayer-Protected Gold Clusters

    Allen C. Templeton;Michael J. Hostetler;Emily K. Warmoth;Shaowei Chen

  • Golden single-atomic-site platinum electrocatalysts

    Paul N. Duchesne;Z. Y. Li;Christopher P. Deming;Victor Fung

  • Electrocatalysis of Single-Atom Sites: Impacts of Atomic Coordination

    Bingzhang Lu;Qiming Liu;Shaowei Chen

  • Quantized Capacitance Charging of Monolayer-Protected Au Clusters

    Shaowei Chen;Royce W. Murray;Stephen W. Feldberg

  • N-Doped Carbon-Wrapped Cobalt Nanoparticles on N-Doped Graphene Nanosheets for High-Efficiency Hydrogen Production

    Weijia Zhou;Jian Zhou;Yucheng Zhou;Jia Lu

  • Silica-coated CdTe quantum dots functionalized with thiols for bioconjugation to IgG proteins.

    Abraham Wolcott;Daniele Gerion;Micah Visconte;Jia Sun

  • High power density microbial fuel cell with flexible 3D graphene–nickel foam as anode

    Hanyu Wang;Gongming Wang;Yichuan Ling;Fang Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

Ligui Li
Ligui Li South China University of Technology
Zhenghua Tang
Zhenghua Tang South China University of Technology
Weijia Zhou
Weijia Zhou University of Jinan
Hong Liu
Hong Liu Shandong University
Jin Z. Zhang
Jin Z. Zhang University of California, Santa Cruz
Zhi-You Zhou
Zhi-You Zhou Xiamen University
Yuanhua Sang
Yuanhua Sang Shandong University
Royce W. Murray
Royce W. Murray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fen Ran
Fen Ran Lanzhou University of Technology
Zhenhuan Zhao
Zhenhuan Zhao Xidian University

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