Understanding the surface modification of nanomaterialsĪlumnus Ruochen Liu, who graduated from BSc Applied Chemistry last year, published a paper investigating the surface modification of nanomaterials.
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‘Mesoporous and Microporous Materials’ is one of the leading journals in the field of porous materials and is also the official journal of the International Zeolite Association. Studying at XJTLU also helped my ability to search for and write papers in English.” He said of his time at XJTLU: “The most significant thing I developed at XJTLU was self-study skills, while the rigorous academic environment improved my thinking, which has become more logical and rational. Jiawei plans to pursue PhD study in Japan after his graduation in July. “Once a suitable microporous material is found it will be able to be used as an efficient method to store vehicle energy and facilitate a solution to the problem of our energy consumption’s impact on the environment.” Jiawei explained: “We hoped to find an ideal microporous material that can be utilised to store hydrogen-enriched methane for use in clean vehicles, or at least find characteristics that will increase the hythane adsorption capacity of the materials.
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He used a computational approach to find what characteristics would maximise the adsorption capacity of porous materials, discovering that there was a ‘complex interplay' of the properties of the materials, temperature and bulk composition. Jiawei sought to find out the correlation between the characteristics of the materials and their hydrogen and methane (aka hythane) adsorption capacities. Nanoporous materials are technologically useful for a wide range of applications such as energy storage and conversion in fuel cells.
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Researchers around the world are therefore looking for nanoporous materials to act as fuel tanks. The paper, titled Molecular simulation studies of hydrogen enriched methane (HEM) storage in Covalent Organic Frameworks, was based on Jiawei’s degree project and looks at the storage of hydrogen-enriched methane in nanoporous materials.ĭr Lifeng Ding, Jiawei’s supervisor and a lecturer from the Department of Chemistry at XJTLU, explained that while methane is seen as a clean fuel that could reduce global dependence on oil, the gas is difficult to store and its wide use as a fuel is yet to be realised. Jiawei Liao, one of the first students to graduate from MRes Advanced Chemical Sciences at XJTLU, had his paper, which contributes to the search for alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, published in the journal ‘Microporous and Mesoporous Materials’. Helping reduce the global dependence on oil Students from the Department of Chemistry at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University have had research published in international journals that could have significant impact on their respective research fields.