Xu Lu, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering

Current

Location:

Building 5, Level 4, Office 4337

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Biography

Dr. Xu Lu joined the Mechanical Engineering Program, Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his B.Eng., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong in 2012, 2013 and 2017, respectively.
Prior to joining KAUST, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University. So far, he has 1 U.S. provisional patent and 25 publications in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Energy Letters, Journal of Power Sources, Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, Nature etc.

Research Interests

Dr. 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

* Communication author

  1. 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".
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Yueshen Wu, Zhan Jiang, Xu Lu, Yongye Liang*, and Hailiang Wang*. "Domino electroreduction of CO2 to methanol on a molecular catalyst." Nature 575.7784 (2019) 639-642.
  5. 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.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, Yale University, 2017-2020 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2013
  • B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2012

Professional Profile

  • Editorial Board Member, SmartMat, Since 2021
  • Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research (Section: Fuel Cell), 2021 - 2022

Scientific and Professional Membership

  • Combustion Institute (CI)
  • The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

KAUST Affiliations