Cheah group
Renewable energy conversion by electrochemical activation of small molecules
Our research
Our research focus is on renewable energy conversion by electrochemical activation of small molecules such as H+, CO2, N2, O2 and H2O. We apply a variety of techniques including electrochemical, FTIR, XAS spectroelectrochemistry, DFT and stable isotope labelling to study the mechanisms of water oxidation, proton, CO2, O2 and N2 reduction reactions by molecular catalysts or biological enzymes.
Group members
Publications
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II
Part of Nature, p. 629-636, 2023
Going around the Kok cycle of the water oxidation reaction with femtosecond X-ray crystallography
Part of IUCrJ, p. 642-655, 2023
Capturing the sequence of events during the water oxidation reaction in photosynthesis using XFELs
Part of FEBS Letters, p. 30-37, 2023
Water Oxidation by Pentapyridyl Base Metal Complexes?: A Case Study
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 9104-9118, 2022
Part of eLIFE, 2022
- DOI for Redox-controlled reorganization and flavin strain within the ribonucleotide reductase R2b–NrdI complex monitored by serial femtosecond crystallography
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Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 4634-4643, 2022
Part of Australian journal of chemistry (Print), p. 649-659, 2022
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 660-674, 2021
Electrochemical oxidation of ferricyanide
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
Part of Structural Dynamics, 2021
- DOI for Effects of x-ray free-electron laser pulse intensity on the Mn K beta(1,3) x-ray emission spectrum in photosystem II-A case study for metalloprotein crystals and solutions
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Part of Nature Communications, 2021
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
X-ray free-electron laser studies reveal correlated motion during isopenicillin N synthase catalysis
Part of Science Advances, 2021
Spin transition in a ferrous chloride complex supported by a pentapyridine ligand
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 2703-2706, 2020
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 141-145, 2020
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 12624-12635, 2020
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 60-72, 2019
XANES and EXAFS of dilute solutions of transition metals at XFELs
Part of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, p. 1716-1724, 2019
Part of Scientific Reports, 2019
Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock
Part of Nature, p. 421-425, 2018