Dr Chen was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 2014 from the University of Western Australia (UWA) followed by a postdoctoral experience in the Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Flinders University with Prof Colin L. Raston AO. From 2015, he worked as a Research Fellow with Prof Rodney S. Ruoff in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Upon the receipt of ARC DECRA, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2017, establishing a research group working on ‘artificial materials’ through developing new synthesis strategies and applications of materials. In 2021, Dr Chen was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle.

Research Interest: highly porous materials

Research Interest: materials for energy applications

Research Interest: F-diamane, diamond, fullerenes 

Research Interest: graphenic films, coal-derived carbon materials

Research Interest: fullerenes, graphene, van der Waals structures

Research Interest: fullerenes, graphene, two-dimensional materials

Research Interest: shock reactions, electrochemistry

Graphene-based membrane for water filtration and separation (2022)

Metal-catalysed formation of atomically-thin carbon films (2020)

Microwave shock exfoliation of graphene fluoride for potassium-ion batteries (2019)