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My research seeks to address urgent challenges at the energy-climate-sustainability nexus, focusing on understanding and implementing chemically and electrochemically mediated processes that utilize foundational principles from chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, and advanced characterization techniques. The ultimate goal is to develop economically feasible and scalable technologies for electrochemical energy storage and sustainable materials recovery.

Selected Patents

High temperature resistance binary fiber/polylactic acid based composite material and preparation method thereof, CN Patent Application No.: 200910047510.
Methods for extraction of resources from iron-rich feedstocks. Patent application filed with MIT 2024.

Selected Publications

S. F. Tan, H. Wu, J. S. Manser, D. Zhang, M. Ronchi, S. Smullin, Y-M. Chiang, and F. M. Ross.
Operando Liquid Cell TEM Studies: Electrochemical Reactivity and Stability of Fe Electrode in Alkaline Electrolyte.
Advanced Functional Materials (2024): 2407561.
X. Liu, S. Jin, Y. Shao, S. Kuperman, A. Pratt, D Zhang, J. Lo, Y. L. Joo, A. D. Gat, L. A. Archer, R. F. Shepherd.
The Multifunctional Use of an Aqueous Battery for a High Capacity Jellyfish Robot.
Science Advances 10, no. 48 (2024): eadq7430.
D. Zhang‡. M. J. Wang‡, S. C. Coppieters ’t Wallant, S. Zhang, Y.-M. Chiang*.
Toward zero-waste resource recovery from municipal solid waste incineration ash by electrochemical and chemical mining.
Cell Reports Sustainability (2024) June 5.
P.-C. Tsai‡, S. Mair‡, J. Smith, D. M. Halat, P.-H. Chien, K. Kim, D. Zhang, Y. Li, L. Yin, J. Liu, S. H. Lapidus, J. A. Reimer, N. P. Balsara, D. J. Siegel, Y.-M. Chiang*.
Double paddle‐wheel enhanced sodium ion conduction in an antiperovskite solid electrolyte.
Advanced Energy Materials 13, no. 7 (2023): 2370027.
J. Shuo‡, D. Zhang‡, A. Sharma, Q. Zhao, Y. Shao, P. Chen, J. Zheng, J. Yin, Y. Deng, P. Biswal, L. A. Archer*.
Stabilizing zinc electrodeposition in a battery anode by controlling crystal growth.
Small 17, no. 33 (2021): 2101798.
A. Warren, A. Sharma, D. Zhang, G. Li, L. A. Archer*.
Structure and dynamics of electric-field-driven flows at the interface between liquid electrolytes and ion-selective membranes.
Langmuir 37, no. 19 (2021): 5895- 5901.
X. Liu, N. W. Utomo, Q. Zhao, J. Zheng, D. Zhang, L. A. Archer*.
Effects of geometric confinement on caging and dynamics of polymer-tethered nanoparticles suspensions.
Macromolecules 54, no. 1 (2020): 426-439.
J. Zheng‡, J. Yin‡, D. Zhang, G. Li, D. C. Bock, T. Tang, Q. Zhao, X. Liu, A. Warren, Y. Deng, S. Jin, A. C. Marschilok, E. S. Takeuchi, K. J. Takeuchi, C. D. Rahn, L. A. Archer*.
Spontaneous and field-induced crystallographic reorientation of metal electrodeposits at battery anodes.
Science Advances 6, no. 25 (2020): eabb1122.
D. Zhang, A. Warren, G. Li, Z. Cheng, X. Han, Q. Zhao, X. Liu, Y. Deng, L. A. Archer*.
Electrodeposition of zinc in aqueous electrolytes containing high molecular weight polymers.
Macromolecules 53, no. 7 (2020): 2694-2701.
Q. Zhao, L. Liu, J. Yin, J. Zheng, D. Zhang, J. Chen, L. A. Archer*.
Proton intercalation/de-intercalation processes at vanadium oxide cathodes in aqueous aluminum electrochemical cells.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59, no. 8 (2020): 3048-3052.
J. Zheng, Q. Zhao, T. Tang, J. Yin, C. D. Quilty, G. D. Renderos, X. Liu, Y. Deng, D. Zhang, E. S. Takeuchi, K. J. Takeuchi, A. C. Marschilok, L. A. Archer*.
Reversible epitaxial electrodeposition of metals in battery anodes.
Science 366, no. 6465 (2019): 645-648.
Y. Deng, J. Zheng, A. Warren, J. Yin, S. Choudhury, P. Biswal, D. Zhang, and L. A. Archer*.
On the reversibility and fragility of sodium metal electrodes.
Advanced Energy Materials 9, no. 39 (2019): 1901651.
A. Warren, D. Zhang, S. Choudhury, L. A. Archer*.
Electrokinetics in viscoelastic liquid electrolytes above the diffusion limit.
Macromolecules 52, no. 12 (2019): 4666-4672.
Z. Sun*, M. Liepe, J. T. Maniscalco, T. Oseroff, R. D. Porter, D. Zhang, X. Deng.
Fast Sn-ion transport on Nb surface for generating NbxSn thin films and XPS depth profiling.
Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2019): 727-730.
K. Ma, K. A. Spoth, Y. Cong, D. Zhang, T. Aubert, M. Z. Turker, L. F. Kourkoutis, E. Mendes, U. Wiesner*.
Early formation pathways of surfactant micelle directed ultrasmall silica ring and cage structures.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 140, no. 50 (2018): 17343-17348.
Y. Sun, K. Ma, T. Kao, H. Sai, D. Zhang, V. Elser, U. Wiesner*.
Formation pathways of mesoporous silica nanoparticles with dodecagonal tiling.
Nature Communications 8, no. 1 (2017): 1-10.
K. Ma, D. Zhang, Y. Cong, U. Wiesner*.
Elucidating the mechanism of silica nanoparticle PEGylation processes using fluorescence correlation spectroscopies.
Chemistry of Materials 28, no. 5 (2016): 1537-1545.

Materials Science · Electrochemical Engineering

Duhan Zhang

Postdoctoral Associate · MITEI Fellow

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Research

Selected Patents

Selected Publications

Operando Liquid Cell TEM Studies: Electrochemical Reactivity and Stability of Fe Electrode in Alkaline Electrolyte.

The Multifunctional Use of an Aqueous Battery for a High Capacity Jellyfish Robot.

Toward zero-waste resource recovery from municipal solid waste incineration ash by electrochemical and chemical mining.

Double paddle‐wheel enhanced sodium ion conduction in an antiperovskite solid electrolyte.

Stabilizing zinc electrodeposition in a battery anode by controlling crystal growth.

Structure and dynamics of electric-field-driven flows at the interface between liquid electrolytes and ion-selective membranes.

Effects of geometric confinement on caging and dynamics of polymer-tethered nanoparticles suspensions.

Spontaneous and field-induced crystallographic reorientation of metal electrodeposits at battery anodes.

Electrodeposition of zinc in aqueous electrolytes containing high molecular weight polymers.

Proton intercalation/de-intercalation processes at vanadium oxide cathodes in aqueous aluminum electrochemical cells.

Reversible epitaxial electrodeposition of metals in battery anodes.

On the reversibility and fragility of sodium metal electrodes.

Electrokinetics in viscoelastic liquid electrolytes above the diffusion limit.

Fast Sn-ion transport on Nb surface for generating NbxSn thin films and XPS depth profiling.

Early formation pathways of surfactant micelle directed ultrasmall silica ring and cage structures.

Formation pathways of mesoporous silica nanoparticles with dodecagonal tiling.

Elucidating the mechanism of silica nanoparticle PEGylation processes using fluorescence correlation spectroscopies.