Wen Zhang

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.

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

Environmental microbiology and biotechnology; environmental nanotechnology; colloidal chemistry; introduction to environmental engineering;

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/

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Ma, Qingquan, & Zhang, Wen, & Young, Joshua (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, 715, 121949.

Ma, Qingquan, & Young, Joshua, & Basuray, Sagnik, & Chen, Guangming, & Gao, Jianan, & Yao, Nan, & Zhang, Wen (2022). Elucidating facet dependent electronic and electrochemical properties of Cu2O nanocrystals using AFM/SCEM and DFT. Nano Today, 45, 101538.

Chen, Chen, & Ma, Qingquan, & Liu, Fangzhou, & Gao, Jianan, & Li, Xinyang, & Sun, Shaobin, & Yao, Hong, & Liu, Changqing, & Young, Joshua, & Zhang, Wen (2021). Photocatalytically reductive defluorination of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) using Pt/La2Ti2O7 nanoplates: Experimental and DFT assessment. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 419, 126452.

Sarkar, Biplab, & Siddiqui, Zain, & Nguyen, Peter, & Dube, Namita, & Fu, Wanyi, & Park, Steven, & Jaisinghani, Shivani, & Paul, Reshma, & Kozuch, Stephen, & Deng, Daiyong, & Iglesias-Montoro, Patricia, & Li, Mengyan, & Sabatino, David, & Perlin, David, & Zhang, Wen, & Mondal, Jagannath, & Kumar, Vivek (2019). Membrane-Disrupting Nanofibrous Peptide Hydrogels. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 5(9), 4657-4670.

Zhang, Wen, & Xu, Yan, & Li, S., & Zhou, Mengchu, & Liu, W., & Xu, Yan (2018). A Distributed Dynamic Programming-Based Solution for Load Management in Smart Grids. IEEE Systems Journal, 12(1), 402-413.

Zhang, Wen (2014). Nanomaterial, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, David G. Capco; Yongsheng Chen (Ed.), Springer Netherlands. (pp. 19-43). Springer Netherlands