- Bio-renewables for chemicals and energy
- Design and Development of Active Photocatalysts for Clean Energy Production from Renewable Solar Energy
- Development of Efficient Photocatalysts for Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Value-Added Products Using Solar Energy
- Development of Functionalized Organo-layered Compounds for Pharmaceutical Applications
- Highly oriented layered double hydroxide films with tunable compositions and structures
- Improved Photocatalysts for Water Splitting under Visible Light by Controlled Nanostructure
- Investigation and understanding of nano-bio and nano-hybrid interfacial systems for energy and medical applications
- Novel silver nanoparticle/Multi-walled carbon nanotube nanohybrid coating for disinfection and biofouling control in drinking water treatment
- Photoelectrochemical cell
- SinBeRISE Subproject 2 - Photoelectrochemical Cell
| Selected Publications | - Zhang, W., Wang, Y. B., Wang, Z., Zhong, Z. Y., Xu, R.*. (2010). Highly Efficient and Noble Metal-Free NiS/CdS Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution from Lactic Acid Sacrificial Solution under Visible Light. Chemical Communications, 46, 7631-7633.
- Zhang, W., Tay, H. L., Lim, S. S., Wang, Y. S., Zhong, Z. Y., Xu, R.*. (2010). Supported cobalt oxide on MgO: highly efficient catalysts for degradation of organic dyes in dilute solutions. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 95, 93-99.
- Gunawan, P. and Xu, R.*. (2009). Direct Assembly of Anisotropic Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Nanocrystals on Spherical Template for Fabrication of Drug-LDH Hollow Nanospheres. Chemistry of Materials, 21, 781-783.
- Xu Rong. (2009). Development of nanoceramic oxides and their applications in heterogeneous catalysisHandbook of nanoceramics and their based devices. (pp. 301-344). United States: American Scientific Publishers.
- Zhang, W., and Xu, R.*. (2009). Surface Engineered Active Photocatalysts without Noble Metals: CuS-ZnxCd1-xS Nanospheres by One-Step Synthesis. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 34, 8495-8503.
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