Associate Professor Bin Luo
Associate Professor Bin Luo specialises in functional materials for electrochemical energy storage applications.
A/Prof Bin Luo is an ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow and Group leader at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) & School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland. A/Prof Luo received his PhD degree from National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. Since joining UQ, he has worked as UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2018), ARC DECRA Fellow (2018-2021), ARC Future Fellow (2021-2025), and ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow (2026-). A/Prof Luo's research focuses on the development of functional materials for electrochemical energy storage applications. Specially, his research focuses on the design of carbon materials and their hybrid structures with organic/inorganic species and exploring their application in next generation battery technologies including redox flow batteries, multivalent metal batteries, solid state batteries, and solar rechargeable batteries. By understanding the redox chemistry of these materials and devices with operando or ex situ technologies, his research aims to reveal the underlying energy storage mechanism and structure-performance relationships, with the goal of improving electrochemical performance and solving the future energy storage demand. A/Prof Luo has contributed 5 edited book chapters, more than 150 journal publications, filed 13 patents and delivered over 30 keynote/invited presentations. His research has attracted >17k citations with an H-index of 68 (google scholar). He is serving as Editorial Board/Young Advisory Board member of international journals including EcoMat, eScience, Energy Z, and Catalysts.
Industry
A/Professor Luo has been working closely with industries to translate the fundamental science into practice and solve industrial problems, including Graphinex, Livium, Pure Battery Technologies, Energy Storage Industries-Asia Pacific, Redflow, Northernjoin, and Dynamic Group.
Collaborations
My Group has built extensive collaborations with many other domestic and international research groups. This includes collaborations with, or mentorships from, leading figures in the field such as Prof Lianzhou Wang (Hong Kong PolyU ), Prof Ian Gentle (UQ), Prof Debra Barnhart (UQ), Prof Ruth Knibbe (UQ), Prof Linjie Zhi (CUP East China), Prof Bin Wang (NCNST), Prof Zhiyong Tang (NCNST), Prof Jisheng Zhou (BUCT), Dr Tobias Schülli (ESRF-The European Synchrotron), Prof Yun Hau Ng (CityUHK), Prof Michael Giersig (IPPT-PAN), A/Prof Jens Noack (Fraunhofer ICT), Dr Qinfen Gu (ANSTO).
Funding
A/Prof Luo consistently leverages his successes to develop new opportunities and linkages with industry and research partners nationally and internationally. Luo has secured more than $8 million in research funding since 2014. His funding sources span fundamental discovery (4 ARC Discovery Projects including ARC Future and DECRA Fellowships and 2 Discovery Projects as lead CI), industry collaboration (1 ARC Industry Fellowship, 2 ARC Linkage Projects, 1 ARC Transformation Hub Project, 2 Innovation Connection Projects), infrastructure (2 ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant), Australian Synchrotron (25 beamline grants), and UQ research grants/awards (UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UQ Early Career Researcher Grant, and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award).
Key Publications
X. Hu, S. Gao, T. Lin, X. Peng, Y. Huang, Y. Zhang, X. Yang, L. Wang, G. Luo, Z Wen, B. Johannessen, S. Wang, L. Wang*, B Luo*. Iodine-Doped Sodium Vanadate Cathode for Improved Zn Ion Diffusion Kinetics. Advanced Materials, 2025, 37 (46), 2416714.
S. Gao, Y. Zhu, K. Shi, P. Liu, Y. Zhang, J. Hu, Z. Wen, L. Wang*, W. Tan, L. Wang, B. Luo*, J. Zhou*. Single atom activated multi-stage active sites for thoroughgoing sodium utilization. Nature Communications, 2025. 16(1), 1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64351-9
C He, Y Zhang, S Zhang, X Peng*, J Noack*, M Skyllas-Kazacos*, L Wang*, B Luo*. Aqueous iron-based redox flow batteries for large-scale energy storage. 2025, National Science Review, nwaf218, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf218.
N S Alghamdi, D Rakov, X Peng, J Lee, Y Huang, X Yang, S Zhang, I R Gentle, L Wang*, B Luo*. Tailoring Zn‐ion Solvation Structures for Enhanced Durability and Efficiency in Zinc‐Bromine Flow Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2025, e202502739.
X. Peng, Y. Xie, A. Baktash, J. Tang, T. Lin, X. Huang, Y. Hu, Z. Jia, D. J Searles, Y. Yamauchi*, L. Wang*, B. Luo*. Heterocyclic Conjugated Polymer Nanoarchitectonics with Synergistic Redox‐active Sites for High‐performance Aluminium Organic Battery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202203646.