To make the world a better place.
Going for gold with magnetic adsorbents!
Gold is not only a beautiful metal for jewelries, but also a versatile materials for various technological applications such as electronics, catalysts, and even medical applications.
How to recover gold more efficiently?
Try magnetic adsorbents!
Ultra-efficient and Selective Recovery of Au (III) Using Magnetic Fe3S4/Fe7S8
Fe3S4/Fe7S8 can recover gold with a capacity over 2000 mg/g!
Separation and Purification Technology
Efficient gold recovery from cyanide solution using magnetic activated carbon
Make activated carbon magnetic, and recover gold!
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
A Review on Adsorption Mechanism of Gold Cyanide Complex onto Activation Carbon
Mechanism is also important!
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Make it magnetic!
Magnetic materials are amazing, they are easy to handle and separate, and you can customize it.
Publications
Core–Shell Structured Fe3O4@CuS for Effective Gold Capture and Recovery
A core-shell structure is just like a boiled egg!
ACS Applied Nano Materials
Let's recycle waste!
Recycling is more important than ever. So many valuable resources are landfilled or incinerated, leading to pollution and health concerns. Meanwhile, recycling has the potential to create a sustainable circular economy and a cleaner future.
Platinum group metals recycling from spent automotive catalysts: metallurgical extraction and recovery technologies
Separation and Purification Technology
Publication
E-waste management is an urgent and serious issue in our society, over 50 million tonnes e-waste are generated every year, but only less than 20% was properly recycled. We need to take actions! Developing and promoting cleaner and more sustainable e-waste recycling technologies is significant.
I have some work about e-waste recycling that is currently under preparation.
From carbon to graphene!
During my master's program, my research was to convert biomass derived carbon into graphene, and use it in a supercapacitor.
Publication
Three-dimensional porous graphene-like sheets synthesized from biocarbon via low-temperature graphitization for a supercapacitor
Green Chemistry
Supercapacitor
Supercapacitor is an electrochemical energy storage device, kinda like batteries!
During my master's program, I assembled many coin-cell supercapacitors using activated carbon and graphene materials for the electrode.