Scientific publications
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Publications
R. Xu, “Electrochemical Studies on the Biopigment Eumelanin,” Polytechnique Montreal, 2020.
R. Xu, et al., “An Electrochemical Study on the Effect of Metal Chelation and Reactive Oxygen Species on a Synthetic Neuromelanin Model,” Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., vol. 7, pp. 1–11, 2019.
R. Xu, et al., “Melanin: A Greener Route to Enhance Energy Storage under Solar Light,” ACS Omega, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 12244–12251, 2019.
R. Xu, et al., “Light-enhanced Electrochemical Energy Storage of Synthetic Melanin on Conductive Glass Substrates,” MRS Adv., vol. 5, no. 27–28, pp. 1441–1448, 2020.
R. Xu et al., “An Electrochemical Study of Natural and Chemically Controlled Eumelanin,” APL Mater., vol. 5, no. 12, p. 126108, 2017.
E. Di Mauro, R. Xu, et al., “Natural Melanin Pigments and Their Interfaces with Metal Ions and Oxides : Emerging Concepts and Technologies,” MRS Commun., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 141–151, 2017.
R. Xu, et al., “Self-assembly of Miscible Homopolymer/Quasi-block Copolymer Blends/MWNT Composites: A Strategy to Obtain Ultralow Electrical Percolation Threshold and Mechanism,” RSC Adv., vol. 5, no. 21, pp. 15841–15843, 2015.
R. Xu and X. Xu, “Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Poly(methyl methacrylate)-quasi-block-polystyrene/Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Composites with An Optimized Double Percolation Mechanism,” RSC Adv., vol. 4, no. 79, pp. 42226–42233, Aug. 2014.
Conference proceedings
R. Xu, “Electrochemical Studies on the Biopigment Eumelanin”, thesis defense, Polytechnique Montreal, 27/8/2020.
R. Xu, et al., “Shedding light on the hydration-dependent electrical conductivity in eumelanin thin films”, 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Materials Research Society, Poster; Boston, USA, 28/11/2016.
R. Xu, et al., “Electrochemical properties of chemically controlled eumelanin”, 2017 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Materials Research Society, Oral; Boston, USA, 29/11/2017.
R. Xu, et al., “Electrochemical studies on molecular models of neuromelanin”, 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Poster, Bologna, Italy, 2/9/2018.
R. Xu, et al., “Solar light harvesting enhances the energy storage performance of melanin-based electrodes”, 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Poster, Bologna, Italy, 3/9/2018