Professor Bor-Yann Chen has expertise in biomass energy and environmental biotechnology.  His studies focus on applications in wastewater decolorization, bioremediation engineering, environmental toxicology and biofuel cells.  Recently, his findings also deciphered chemical structures of electron shuttles and recalcitrant dyes which are crucial to simultaneous pollutant biodegradation and biomaterial/bioenergy recycling for green sustainability.  Considering environmental friendliness, he recently explored natural bioresources (e.g., medicinal herbs and edible flora) for applications in bioenergy generation and high-value production.  He provided different alternatives to evaluate indigenous biomaterials with electrochemical potentials for applications to electro-fermentation, bioenergy and biorefinery.  He also has 200+ Peer-Reviewed SCI research articles published in academic journals and coauthored 4 books published. Detailed publications please refer to: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bor-Yann_Chen and http://www.sciencedirect.com/ , then use author “Bor-Yann Chen” for partial publications in Elsevier.

In recent 5 years, our lab deciphered the mysteries of significance of polyphenolic and we are the first group in the world to classify polyphenolic electron shuttles (ESs) from the category of antioxidants that were misunderstood for more than 2 decades.  With the electrochemical ESs, redox-mediating characteristics biotic and abiotic processes could be significantly stimulated via autocatalysis.  Moreover, due to the pandemics of COVID-19, our lab also explored diverse natural sources for possible candidate anti-COVID-19 Chinese Medicine.  Our novel findings also pointed out that ES contents in medicinal herbs could even effectively augment the efficacy of anti-viral activity for disease treatment.  For example, Jing Gang Fang as a TCM decoction comprised of five medicinal herbs (A. rugosa, B. chinesnse, F. suspensa, M. officinalis, and S. baicalensis) which are known to possess anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties whose mechanisms of action were disclosed in our recent publication.