RSC Advances Blog

We are delighted to welcome Dr Hui Luo, University of Surrey, as an Associate Editor!

Dr Hui Luo (MRSC, MIMMM, FHEA) is an RAEng research fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, and part of the Surrey Circular Economy Group at the University of Surrey. She obtained her PhD in materials science from Queen Mary University of London in 2019, working on carbon materials for solar hydrogen conversion. In Oct 2019, she moved to Imperial College London working as a research associate, developing biomass electrolyser for green hydrogen and bio-chemical co-production. In Sep 2022, she worked as a senior test engineering at Ceres, before joining Surrey in May 2023. She leads the Catalysis for Chemical Circularity group (C4CC), and her research interests include developing and up-scaling efficient mechanocatalytic and electrolysis technologies to convert biomass and plastic wastes into green hydrogen and high-value commodity chemicals.

Research Areas: 

• Advanced recycling of PET, PLA, polycarbonate and polyamides
• Electrocatalysis (HER, OER, CO2RR, alternative feedstock oxidation)
• Materials Characterisation (XRD, XPS, FTIR, SEM, STEM, BET)
• Product analysis (GC, HPLC, NMR, MS)
• Operando techniques (FTIR, XAS, Raman spectroscopy)

Discover some of Hui’s publications:

Quantum-Corrected Plasmonic Effect of Au 25 Clusters Regulates Adsorption Behaviors for Boosted Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting
Shaohui Guo, Jing Wen, Wei Zhao, Hui Luo, Xuanhua Li, Xian-Ming Zhang
Adv. Mater., 2026; 38 (41): e73778

Effective and Selective Ethylene Glycol Electrooxidation with Compositionally Controlled Pt-Au Bimetallic Electrocatalysts
Hui Luo, Xianxian Xie, Jia-Min Li, Shaohui Guo, Ivan Khalakhan
J. Mater. Chem. A., 2026; 14 (1): 343–347

Fundamental, Technical and Environmental Overviews of Plastic Chemical Recycling
Hui Luo, Helen Tyrrell, Jingyang Bai, Rukayya Ibrahim Muazu, Xiangyi Long
Green Chem., 2024; 26 (23): 11444–11467

Investigating the Role of Fe‐Pyrrolic N4 Configuration in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction via Covalently Bound Porphyrin Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
Qi Li, Yue Xu, Angus Pedersen, Mengnan Wang, Mi Zhang, Jingyu Feng, Hui Luo, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Christopher R. Jones
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024; 34 (16): 2311086

Submit to RSC Advances today! Check out our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

Keep up to date with our latest Popular Advances, Reviews, Collections & more by following us on Bluesky. You can also keep informed by signing up to our E-Alerts.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Wilson, University of Warwick, as an Associate Editor!

Paul Wilson is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He studied chemistry at the University of Bristol (MSci, 1st Class, 2006) before completing a PhD in organic chemistry (Warwick, 2010). Having previously held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (Warwick, 2016—2019), he currently holds a Royal Society Tata University Research Fellowship until the end of 2026.

His URF is focussed on developing platforms for nanoscale synthesis and nanofabrication, through combining the capabilities of scanning electrochemical probe microscopy techniques with electrochemically-mediated organic, macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry. More broadly, the team are interested in developing new methodologies and technologies that can enable the preparation of synthetic and biological (nano)materials with an optimum level of compositional, architectural, topological and functional control. They are also interested in applying the methods, techniques and materials developed to help solve long-term and emerging problems that impact global economic and societal development such as nanotechnology, defense, healthcare technologies and sustainability.

Paul is an advocate for UK polymer science and engages in the (inter)national polymer community through an active role on the MacroGroup UK committee, which has followed a prior appointment as treasurer of the Recent Appointees in Polymer Science group.

Discover some of Paul’s publications:

Organic Arsenicals As Efficient and Highly Specific Linkers for Protein/Peptide–Polymer Conjugation
Paul Wilson, Athina Anastasaki, Matthew R. Owen, Kristian Kempe, David M. Haddleton, Sarah K. Mann, Angus P. R. Johnston, John F. Quinn, Michael R. Whittaker, Philip J. Hogg and Thomas P. Davis
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015; 137, 4215–4222

A Tunable Hydrogel Platform Based on Platinum-Containing Polymeric Arsenicals
Alexandros Magiakos, Evelina Liarou, Spyridon Efstathiou, Andrea Dsouza, Chrystala Constantinidou, Marc Walker, Constantinos Methenitis and Paul Wilson
Chem. Mater., 2025; 37, 3733–3746

Localised polymerisation of acrylamide using single-barrel scanning electrochemical cell microscopy
Mahir Mohammed, Bryn A. Jones, Evelina Liarou and Paul Wilson
Chem. Commun., 2023; 59, 10992–10995

Aqueous electrochemically-triggered atom transfer radical polymerization
Boyu Zhao, Fred Pashley-Johnson, Bryn A. Jones and Paul Wilson
Chem. Sci., 2022; 13, 5741–5749

Plug-and-play aqueous electrochemical atom transfer radical polymerization
Boyu Zhao, Mahir Mohammed, Bryn A. Jones and Paul Wilson
Chem. Commun., 2021; 57, 3897–3900

Submit to RSC Advances today! Check out our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

Keep up to date with our latest Popular Advances, Reviews, Collections & more by following us on Bluesky. You can also keep informed by signing up to our E-Alerts.