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Xu Lu

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Physical Science and Engineering Division 
Center membership :
Clean Combustion

xu.lu@kaust.edu.sa
Low-carbon Energy Conversion and Storage Lab (LECS)


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, Yale University, 2017-2020
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • MSc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2013
  • BEng, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2012

Research Interests

Professor Lu's group focuses on reactor and material engineering for electrochemical CO2 conversion and long-term energy storage. He is also interested in hydrogen fuel cell, seawater electrolysis, and in-situ flow/material characterizations. 

Selected Publications

  • Liang Huang, Ziao Liu, Ge Gao, Cailing Chen, Yanrong Xue, Jiwu Zhao, Qiong Lei, Mengtian Jin, Chongqin Zhu*, Yu Han*, Joseph Francisco*, Xu Lu*. Enhanced CO2 electroreduction selectivity towards ethylene on pyrazolate-stabilized asymmetric Ni-Cu hybrid sites. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023). 10.1021/jacs.3c10600.
  • Yanrong Xue, Jiwu Zhao, Liang Huang, Ying-Rui Lu, Abdul Malek, Ge Gao, Zhongbin Zhuang, Dingsheng Wang, Cafer T Yavuz, Xu Lu*. "Stabilizing ruthenium dioxide with cation-anchored sulfate for durable oxygen evolution in PEMWE." Nature Communications (2023). In press.
  • Abdul Malek, Yanrong Xue, Xu Lu*. Dynamically Restructuring NixCryO Electrocatalyst for Stable Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Real Seawater. Angewandte Chemie. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202309854
  • Liang Huang, Ge Gao, Chaobo Yang, Xiao-Yan Li, Rui Kai Miao, Yanrong Xue, Ke Xie, Pengfei Ou, Cafer T. Yavuz, Yu Han, Gaetano Magnotti*, David Sinton*, Edward H. Sargent*, Xu Lu*. "Pressure dependence in aqueous-based electrochemical CO2 reduction." Nature Communications 14, (2023) 2958
  • Qiong Lei, Liang Huang, Jun Yin*, Bambar Davaasuren, Youyou Yuan, Xinglong Dong, Zhi-Peng Wu, Xiaoqian Wang, Ke Xin Yao, Xu Lu*, and YuHan*. "Structural evolution and strain generation of derived-Cu catalysts during CO2 electroreduction." Nature Communications 13 (2022) 4857.
  • Xu Lu, Chongqin Zhu, Zishan Wu, Jin Xuan, Joseph S. Francisco*, and Hailiang Wang*. "In Situ Observation of the pH Gradient near the Gas Diffusion Electrode of CO2 Reduction in Alkaline Electrolyte." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142.36 (2020) 15438-15444. Selected as the "Front Cover".
  • Pengsong Li, Xu Lu*, Zishan Wu, Yueshen Wu, Richard Malpass-Evans, Neil B. McKeown, Xiaoming Sun*, and Hailiang Wang*. "Acid-base interaction enhancing oxygen tolerance in electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59.27 (2020) 10918-10923.
  • Xu Lu, Yueshen Wu, Xiaolei Yuan, and Hailiang Wang*. "An integrated CO2 electrolyzer and formate fuel cell enabled by a reversibly restructuring Pb‐Pd bimetallic catalyst." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58.12 (2019) 4031-4035.
  • Xu Lu, Yueshen Wu, Xiaolei Yuan, Ling Huang, Zishan Wu, Jin Xuan, Yifei Wang, and Hailiang Wang*. "High-performance electrochemical CO2 reduction cells based on non-noble metal catalysts." ACS Energy Letters 3.10 (2018): 2527-2532.