Wen Zhang

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
About Me
Wen Zhang is currently a faculty member of NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with second appointment in the Department of Chemical and Material Engineering.
Education
Ph.D.; Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus; Environmental Engineering; 2011
M.S.; Tongji University; Environmental Engineering; 2007
B.S.; Tsinghua University; Environmental Engineering; 2004
2026 Fall Courses
CE 490 - CIVIL ENGR PROJECTS
CE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ENE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
ENE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
ENE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
ENE 490 - SENIOR PROJECT
ENE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
CE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CE 727 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH III
CE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
ENE 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERT & RES
CE 491 - RESEARCH EXPER-CIVIL ENGR
CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS
CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ENE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
ENE 262 - INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGR
ENE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
Teaching Interests
Environmental microbiology and biotechnology; environmental nanotechnology; colloidal chemistry; introduction to environmental engineering;
Past Courses
ENE 262: INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGR
ENE 262: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENE 661: ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
ENE 702: ST:ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Research Interests
Dr. Wen Zhang's research focuses on colloidal interfaces and processes that are crucial for environmental and chemical engineering applications. His expertise includes environmental behavior and interfacial processes for nanomaterials, microplastics and soft particles such as microbes and bubbles, reactive membrane filtration systems for desalination and emerging contaminant removal, photocatalysis for pollutant degradation and solar conversion into hydrogen, and microalgal removal and harvesting processing using magnetophoretic separation and membrane filtration processes. His current research also expands from agricultural applications of nanobubbles to lithium recovery from spent lithium ion batteries.
http://www.wenresearch.com/
In Progress
Nanobubble toothbrush
Develop a toothbrush capable of delivering nano bubbles to kill oral bacteria.
Journal Article
Fangzhou Liu, Qingquan Ma, Md Mohidul Alam Sabuj, Shih-Hsiang Yen, Dheeban Govindan, Jianan Gao, Mengqiang Zhao, Menachem Elimelech, Wen Zhang. 2024. "Revolutionizing Airborne Virus Defense: Electromagnetic MXene-Coated Air Filtration for Superior Aerosol Viral Removal." ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces.
Qingquan Ma, Jiahe Zhang, Guangyu Zhu, Neel Ahuja, Boris Khusid, Wen Zhang. 2024. "Effects of surfactants, ion valency and solution temperature on PFAS rejection in commercial reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) processes." Journal of Water Process Engineering, vol. 66, pp. 106039, 1-10.
Qingquan Ma, Jianan Gao, Kayla Cheng, Joshua Young, Mark Zhao, Avner Ronen, Wen Zhang. "Electrooxidation of Perfluorocarboxylic Acids by an Interfacially Engineered Magnéli Phase Titanium Oxide (Ti4O7) Electrode with MXene." ACS ES&T Engineering, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1102–1112.
Qingquan Ma, Qian Lei, Fangzhou Liu, Zimu Song, Boris Khusid, Wen Zhang. 2024. "Evaluation of commercial nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane filtration to remove per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Effects of transmembrane pressures and water matrices." Water Environment Research/Wiley, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. e10983, 1-17.
Qingquan Ma, Jianan Gao, Botamina Moussa, Joshua Young, Mengqiang Zhao, Wen Zhang. 2023. "Electrosorption, desorption, and oxidation of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) via MXene-based electrocatalytic membranes." ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 29149--29159.
Qingquan Ma, Wen Zhang, Joshua Young. 2022. "Effect of single atom Platinum (Pt) doping and facet dependent on the electronic structure and light absorption of Lanthanum Titanium Oxide (La2Ti2O7): A Density Functional Theory study." Surface Science, vol. 715, pp. 121949.
Chapter
Wen Zhang. "Nanomaterial, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology." In David G. Capco; Yongsheng Chen, eds., pp. 19-43. Springer Netherlands, 2014.