Oral Presentation Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

Green Electrochemical Production and Engineering of Nanomaterials (134273)

Yu Lin Zhong 1
  1. Griffith University, Nathan, QUEENSLAND, Australia

Electrochemical engineering is a powerful technique that has been applied on industrial scale to cost-effectively produce valuable chemicals and materials that are otherwise difficult to produce via traditional chemical synthesis (i.e. utilising heat or catalysts). We have employed a combination of highly robust boron-doped diamond (BDD) with a wide electrochemical potential window and commercially available fused deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printing to fabricate a scalable packed-bed electrochemical reactor (PBER) for graphene oxide production. Furthermore, the niche feature of 2D carbides and nitrides of transition metals (MXenes) was capitalised in our packed-bed electrochemical reactor to produce MXenes at an unprecedented reaction rate and yield with minimal chemical waste. A simple NH4F solution was employed as the green electrolyte, which could be used repeatedly without any loss in its efficacy. In addition to the exfoliation of 2D materials, we have expanded the capability of our PBER towards the electrochemical synthesis of functional energy storage materials.

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