About Shanwen Tao
Co-Director and Alternative Liquid Fuels Theme Lead for UK-HyRES, Shanwen Tao is Professor of Chemical Engineering & Sustainable Processes and one of the Warwick-Monash Alliance Professors jointly appointed by the University of Warwick and Monash University.
Before moving to the University of Warwick in 2015, Tao studied and worked at the University of Science & Technology of China Materials Department, Risø National Laboratory of Denmark, the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde.
Prof. Tao is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Tao is on the list of ‘Stanford University’s global list recognising the top 2% of the world’s leading scientists’. Tao is No. 500 in the globally recognised list of 186,014 scientists (within 0.27%) in the area of Energy.
Tao is an Associate Editor of SusMat, a Wiley journal with an impact factor of 21.3. Welcome to publish your work in SusMat.
Tao has co-authored over 180 journal papers with an H-index of 63, more than 19,000 citations (Google Scholar data). Some of the papers are published in highly ranked journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Science Advance etc.
Publications to Date:
- Low Temperature Fast Mixed OH−/H+ Ionic Conductor in Doped Strontium Cerates – Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 14, Issue 37, 4 October 2024. See more.
- Non-Precious Metal Diatomic Synergistic Properties Can Directly Electrocatalyze Highly Selective Conversion of Ammonia-Containing Wastewater to N2 – ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Volume 13, Issue 32, 18 August 2025. See more.
- High proton conductivity of ammonium polyphosphate/PTFE composites in water – Journal of Power Sources, Volume 654, 30 October 2025. See more.
- Unlocking synergistic catalysis in single-atom Pt/NiO electrodes for enhanced ammonia oxidation via combined pathways – Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 525, 1 December 2025. See more.
- Entropy-Engineered Non-Precious Perovskite Catalysts for Ampere-Level Ammonia-Water Co-Electrolysis – Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 26, 30 March 2026. See more.
- Tailored catalytic microenvironments enable efficient electrochemical ammonia production – Advanced Science, Issue to be confirmed. See more.
- A Symmetric Cogeneration Fuel Cell for Coupled Production of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Formate- Advanced Science, Issue to be confirmed. See more.
2024
Low Temperature Fast Mixed OH−/H+ Ionic Conductor in Doped Strontium Cerates
Journal
Advanced Energy Materials
DOI
10.1002/aenm.202400678
Authors
Zou, P.| Iuga, D.| Brown, A.J.| Han, Y.| Wang, R.| Tao, S.
2025
Non-Precious Metal Diatomic Synergistic Properties Can Directly Electrocatalyze Highly Selective Conversion of Ammonia-Containing Wastewater to N2
Journal
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
DOI
10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c03137
Authors
Zhang, H.| Li, B.| Zhou, L.| Wang, Z.| Nie, F.| Tao, S.
High proton conductivity of ammonium polyphosphate/PTFE composites in water
Journal
Journal of Power Sources
DOI
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.237849
Authors
Zhang, M.| Tao, S.
Unlocking synergistic catalysis in single-atom Pt/NiO electrodes for enhanced ammonia oxidation via combined pathways
Journal
Chemical Engineering Journal
DOI
10.1016/j.cej.2025.170434
Authors
Huimin Zhang | Meifang Li | Bing Li | Ziwen Wang | Shanwen Tao
2026
Entropy-Engineered Non-Precious Perovskite Catalysts for Ampere-Level Ammonia-Water Co-Electrolysis
Journal
Advanced Functional Materials
DOI
10.1002/adfm.202523608
Authors
Mengfei Zhang | Yu Zhang | Zhenkang Sun | Xiaoke Li | Alex J. Brown | Jiaming Sun | Qi Yang | Shanwen Tao | Jianguo Liu
Tailored catalytic microenvironments enable efficient electrochemical ammonia production
Journal
Advance Science
DOI
10.1002/advs.75265
Authors
Qi Zhang | Peimiao Zou | Huimin Zhang | Alex J. Brown | Yingjie Song | Marc Walker | Yisong Han | Kui Xie | Shanwen Tao
A Symmetric Cogeneration Fuel Cell for Coupled Production of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Formate
Journal
Advanced Science
DOI
10.1002/advs.75826
Authors
Yingjie Song | Peimiao Zou | Renhang Wang | Qi Zhang | Yisong Han | Christopher Waldron | Marc Walker | Ben G. Breeze | Shanwen Tao