EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH INTERESTS

(1)    Advanced Membranes for Molecular and Ion Separations

(2)    Polymers of Intrinsic microporosity

(3)    Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

(4)    Advanced Ion Exchange Membranes

(5)    Confined Mass Transfer in <1nm Membrane Channels

(6)    Membranes for Energy Conversion and Storage

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Full List at:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ID3BReIAAAAJ 

(1) Peipei Zuo, Zhengjin Yang*,Tongwen Xu* et al. Sulfonated microporous polymer membranes with fast and selective ion transport for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000012

(2) Yahua Liu, Marc-Antoni Goulet, Liuchuan Tong, Yazhi Liu, Yunlong Ji, Liang Wu, Roy G. Gordon, Michael J. Aziz,* Zhengjin Yang,* and Tongwen Xu*. A Long Lifetime All-Organic Aqueous Flow Battery Utilizing TMAP-TEMPO Radical. Chem, 2019, 5:1861-1870

(3) Xiaolin Ge, Yubin He, Xian Liang, Liang Wu*, Yuan Zhu, Zhengjin Yang*, Min Hu, & Tongwen Xu*, Thermally triggered polyrotaxane translational motion helps proton transfer. Nat. Commun., 2018, 9:2297

(4) Zhengjin Yang, Roy G. Gordon*, and Michael J. Aziz* et al. Alkaline Benzoquinone Aqueous Flow Battery for Large‐Scale Storage of Electrical Energy. Adv. Energy Mater., 2017,1702056

(5) Zhengjin Yang, Rui Guo, Richard Malpass-Evans, Mariolino Carta, Neil B McKeown*, Michael D Guiver *, Liang Wu and Tongwen Xu*. Highly Conductive Anion Exchange Membranes from Microporous Tröger’s Base Polymers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 11499-11502.