Grants support our high-quality research

Browse our list of current grants, which provide significant funding for our CCCE researchers.

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ARC grants

  • Prof Huijun Zhao, Dr Batmunkh, Chlorine Evolution Catalysts for Efferent Seawater Electrolysis, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) (DP210104010) ($541,345)
  • A/Prof Porun Liu, New Hierarchical Electrode Design for High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries. Australian Research Council (ARC) 1 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2021, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) ($432,964)
  • Prof Huijun Zhao, Dr Yuhai Dou, C T He, Atomically Thin 3d Transition Metal Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) ($542,288)
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, Dr Yun Wang, Recyclable and Rechargeable All-Solid-State Sodium Ion Batteries, ARCDP 2021-2023 ($569,120)
  • Professor Huijun Zhao, Dr Yulin Zhong Professor Hua Zhao, Zhijian Zhuo, Low Cost Solution-Processable 2D Nanomaterials for Smart Windows, ARC Linkage Project, 2017–2020, $813,210.
  • Professor Huijun Zhao, Dr Huajie Yin, Dr Yun Wang, Professor Huamin Zhang, Two-dimensional nanoporous structured high performance gas evolution electrocatalysts, ARCDP, 2017-2019 ($420,484

  • Dr Yulin Zhong, Tailoring Nanocomposites with Controllable Structural-Property Relationship, ARC Discovery Project, 2017–2019, $300,000.
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, A New Integrated Photo-electrochemical Device Fabrication and Testing System, ARC Linkage - Infrastructure (LIEF), 2015.
  • Professor Huijun Zhao and Professor Shanqing Zhang, A New Management Tool for Effective Wastewater Source Control, ARC Linkage Project grant, 2012–2016, $1.95m.
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, Designing plasmon-enhances photocatalysts for solar-driven water pollutant removal, ARC Discovery Project (including Fellowship), 2013–2015, $90,000.
  • Professor Huijun Zhao and Haimin Zhang, Photoelectrocatalysis-based Techniques for Bactericidal Applications, ARC Discovery Project (including Fellowship), 2015–2017, $299,970.

ARC Future Fellowships

  • A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Advancing green electrochemical engineering of functional 2D namomaterials, 2021-2024
  • Professor Zhiyong Tang, Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles and Biocatalyst Proteins for Artificial Photosynthesis, 2014-2018
  • Professor Huagie Yang, ARCFF, Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of Carbon Dioxide and Water to Produce Carbon-Neutral Fuel, 2012-2016
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, Development of a photoelectrochemical system based on titanium dioxide nanotubes/boron doped diamond heterojunction for online water quality monitoring, ARCFF, 2010-2015

ARC DECRA Fellowships

  • Dr porun Liu, Catalytically active surface for hydrogen evolution, 2017-2019
  • A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Non-Oxidative and Scalable Electrochemical Production of Functional Graphene and its Nanohybrids, 2014-2017

Other grants

  • Prof Huijun Zhao, A/Prof Porun Liu, Mineral carbonation towards net zero (Waseem Ahmad), CSIRO1 May 2022 - 30 Apr 2025, CSIRO Postgraduate Research Top-up Scholarship ($35,000)
  • A/Prof Porun Liu, XAS analysis of metal active centres for synergistically enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation27 Jul 2021 - 30 Jul 2021. Australian Synchrotron (AS212/XAS/17273) ($98,352)
  • Dr Yun Wang, Mechanistic study of electrocatalysis, Griffith University Grant, 2017-2019 $10,000
  • Professor Huijun Zhao, A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Professor Shanqing Zhang, A simultaneous thermal and chemisorption analyser (DSC/TGA/Chemisorp-MS) for in operando studies of functional materials, Griffith University grant, $390,000
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, Professor Huijun Zhao, Professor Huamin Zhang, Dr Yun Wang et al. A suite of instruments for enhancing research on clean environment and energy, Griffith University Grant, 2011-2012 $75,000.
  • Dr Yun Wang, Computational Studies of Photocatalytic Activities of Titanium Dioxide Surfaces for Solar Fuel Production, Griffith University Grant, 2011-2012 $10,000
  • Professor Shanqing Zhang, A 'Sense of Shoot' Approval for Photoelectrocatalytic Degradation of NDMA using Nanostructured TiO2/Diamond Electrodes, Griffith University, 2010 - 2012, $18,171

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