Dr Xiao Lin

  • Visiting Fellow in Chemical Engineering
Xiao Lin

Selected list of recent publications:

  1. “Pt@Co(OH)2 Nanoarrays Supported on Nickel Foam as An Enabling Catalytic Electrode for Efficient and Stable Seawater Electrolysis”, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2026, 391, 126676. .
  2. “Accelerating Hydrogen Evolution Rate and Preventing Metal Hydroxide Deposition in Seawater Electrolysis via Addition of Chelating Agent EDTA-Na4”, Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2026, 114, 686-698. .
  3. “Engineering Low-cost Ni-Fe-Mo Bifunctional Catalysts into High-performance Superaerophobic Nanoarray Electrodes for Hydrogen Production via Water and Seawater Electrolysis at Industrial-scale Current Density”, ChemCatChem, 2025, 17, e01040, DOI:
  4. “Catalytic electrode comprising a gas diffusion layer and bubble-involved mass transfer in anion exchange membrane water electrolysis: A critical review and perspectives”, J. of Energy Chemistry, 2025, 105, 669-701. DOI: .
  5. “Advancements in the in-situ growth of catalysts for water electrolysis: Substrate considerations, performance evaluations, and future perspectives”, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024, 47, 101566. DOI: 
  6. “Insights into the Origin of High Activity of Ni5P4(0001) for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127, 5385–5394. DOI:
  7. “Layered double hydroxide-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction: identification and tailoring of active sites, and superaerophobic nanoarray electrode assembly”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021, 50, 8790-8817. DOI: Awarded top 5% of highly cited articles by the Royal Society of Chemistry
  8. “Ru nanoparticles supported on partially reduced TiO2 as highly efficient catalyst for hydrogen evolution”, Nano Energy, 2021, 88, 106211.
  9. “High-Index-Facet- and High-Surface-Energy Nanocrystals of Metals and Metal Oxides as Highly Efficient Catalysts”, Joule, 2020, 4, 2562-2598.
  10. “Electronic coupling strategy to boost water oxidation efficiency based on the modelling of trimetallic hydroxides Ni1-x-yFexCry (OH)2: From theory to experiment”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 402, 126144. DOI: .