Research Interests:
(1) Functional materials for electrochemical application of energy conversion
(2) Mechanism kinetics via operando electrochemical-spectroscope
(3) Industrial electrochemical electrolyzer design
Representative Publications:
(1)Xin Bo, Rosalie K Hocking, Si Zhou, Yibing Li, Xianjue Chen, Jincheng Zhuang, Yi Du, Chuan Zhao*, Capturing the Active Sites of Multimetallic (Oxy)Hydroxides for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 4225.
(2)Xin Bo, Yibing Li, Xianjue Chen, Chuan Zhao*, Operando Raman Spectroscopiy Reveals Cr-Induced Phase Reconstruction of NiFe and CoFe Oxyhydroxides for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation, Chemistry of Materials, 2020, 32, 4303.
(3)Xin Bo, Yibing. Li, Rosalie K Hocking, Chuan Zhao*, NiFeCr Hydroxide Holey Nanosheet as Advanced Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 41239.
(4)Xin Bo, Yibing Li, Xianjue Chen, Chuan Zhao*, High Valence Chromium Regulated Cobalt-Iron-Hydroxide for Enhanced Water Oxidation, Journal of Power Sources, 2018, 402, 381.
(5)Xin Bo*, Lingxing Zan, Rouna Jia, Kamran. Dastafkan, C. Zhao*, The Nature of Synergistic Effects in Transition Metal Oxides/in-situ Intermediate-Hydroxides for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Current Opinion in Electrochem., 2022, 100987.
(6)Xin Bo, Aiyue Tang, Meiling Dou, Zhilin Li*, Feng Wang*, Controllable Electrodeposition and Mechanism Research of Nanostructured Bi2Te3 Thin Films with High Thermoelectric Properties, Applied Surface Science, 2019, 486, 65.
(7)Xin Bo, Kamran Dastafkan, Chuan Zhao*, Design of Multi-Metallic-Based Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Water Oxidation, ChemPhysChem, 2019, 20, 2936.
