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Overview

Xiaoguang Duan is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has a substantial publication record in the fields of energy, environmental science, and materials science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including renewable energy, sustainability, water science and technology, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably advanced photocatalysis techniques and advanced oxidation water treatment. Other topics they focus on include electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, environmental remediation with nanomaterials, advanced battery technologies research, and nanomaterials for catalytic reactions.

Recent papers by Xiaoguang Duan include:

  • Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Single-atom catalysis in advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • The Intrinsic Nature of Persulfate Activation and N-Doping in Carbocatalysis, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Porous Carbons: Structure-Oriented Design and Versatile Applications, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Potential Difference Driving Electron Transfer via Defective Carbon Nanotubes toward Selective Oxidation of Organic Micropollutants, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors of Xiaoguang Duan include:

  • Shaobin Wang
  • Hongqi Sun
  • Kunsheng Hu
  • Wei Ren
  • Jinqiang Zhang

The scientist's work is often published in the following venues:

  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Water Research
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Best Publications

  • Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes.

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  • Metal-free carbocatalysis in advanced oxidation reactions

    Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun;Shaobin Wang

  • Persulfate Activation on Crystallographic Manganese Oxides: Mechanism of Singlet Oxygen Evolution for Nonradical Selective Degradation of Aqueous Contaminants.

    Shishu Zhu;Shishu Zhu;Xiaojie Li;Jian Kang;Xiaoguang Duan

  • Catalytic removal of aqueous contaminants on N-doped graphitic biochars: inherent roles of adsorption and nonradical mechanisms.

    Shishu Zhu;Shishu Zhu;Xiaochen Huang;Fang Ma;Li Wang

  • N-Doping-Induced Nonradical Reaction on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Catalytic Phenol Oxidation

    Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun;Yuxian Wang;Jian Kang

  • Single-atom catalysis in advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation.

    Yanan Shang;Xing Xu;Baoyu Gao;Shaobin Wang

  • Nonradical reactions in environmental remediation processes: Uncertainty and challenges

    Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao;Shaobin Wang

  • The Intrinsic Nature of Persulfate Activation and N-Doping in Carbocatalysis.

    Wei Ren;Wei Ren;Gang Nie;Gang Nie;Peng Zhou;Peng Zhou;Hui Zhang

  • Insights into Heterogeneous Catalysis of Persulfate Activation on Dimensional-Structured Nanocarbons

    Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun;Jian Kang;Yuxian Wang

  • Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for Generation and Evolution of Reactive Radicals by Metal-Free Catalysis

    Xiaoguang Duan;Zhimin Ao;Hongqi Sun;Stacey Indrawirawan

  • Activation of Peroxydisulfate on Carbon Nanotubes: Electron-Transfer Mechanism.

    Wei Ren;Wei Ren;Liangliang Xiong;Xuehong Yuan;Ziwei Yu

  • Recent advances in transition metal-based electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution

    Zhijie Chen;Xiaoguang Duan;Wei Wei;Shaobin Wang

  • Occurrence of radical and nonradical pathways from carbocatalysts for aqueous and nonaqueous catalytic oxidation

    Xiaoguang Duan;Zhimin Ao;Li Zhou;Hongqi Sun

  • Insights into the Electron-Transfer Regime of Peroxydisulfate Activation on Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of Oxygen Functional Groups

    Wei Ren;Wei Ren;Liangliang Xiong;Gang Nie;Gang Nie;Hui Zhang

  • Identification and Regulation of Active Sites on Nanodiamonds: Establishing a Highly Efficient Catalytic System for Oxidation of Organic Contaminants

    Penghui Shao;Jiayu Tian;Feng Yang;Xiaoguang Duan

  • Sulfur and nitrogen co-doped graphene for metal-free catalytic oxidation reactions

    Xiaoguang Duan;Kane O'Donnell;Hongqi Sun;Yuxian Wang

  • Porous carbons: Structure-oriented design and versatile applications

    Wenjie Tian;Huayang Zhang;Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun

  • Merits and Limitations of Radical vs. Nonradical Pathways in Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes.

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  • An insight into metal organic framework derived N-doped graphene for the oxidative degradation of persistent contaminants: formation mechanism and generation of singlet oxygen from peroxymonosulfate

    Ping Liang;Chi Zhang;Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun

  • Degradation of Cosmetic Microplastics via Functionalized Carbon Nanosprings

    Jian Kang;Li Zhou;Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun

  • Insights into perovskite-catalyzed peroxymonosulfate activation: Maneuverable cobalt sites for promoted evolution of sulfate radicals

    Xiaoguang Duan;Chao Su;Jie Miao;Yijun Zhong

  • Surface controlled generation of reactive radicals from persulfate by carbocatalysis on nanodiamonds

    Xiaoguang Duan;Chao Su;Li Zhou;Hongqi Sun;Hongqi Sun

  • Facile assembly of Bi2O3/Bi2S3/MoS2n-p heterojunction with layered n-Bi2O3 and p-MoS2 for enhanced photocatalytic water oxidation and pollutant degradation

    Jun Ke;Jun Ke;Jie Liu;Hongqi Sun;Huayang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaobin Wang
Shaobin Wang University of Adelaide
Hongqi Sun
Hongqi Sun University of Western Australia
Zhimin Ao
Zhimin Ao Guangdong University of Technology
Zongping Shao
Zongping Shao Curtin University
Shaomin Liu
Shaomin Liu Tianjin Polytechnic University
Moses O. Tadé
Moses O. Tadé Curtin University
Wenjie Tian
Wenjie Tian University of Adelaide
Shih-Hsin Ho
Shih-Hsin Ho Harbin Institute of Technology
Xiaoyao Tan
Xiaoyao Tan Tianjin Polytechnic University
Jiayu Tian
Jiayu Tian Hebei University of Technology

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