Name: Zhenxing Wang

Gender: Male

Job title: Associate professor

Email Address: wzx_1009@ncu.edu.cn; wzx_1009@163.com

Education and Work Experience ：

2020.12 -- present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Associate professor

2017.01-2020.12 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Lecturer

2013.03-2017.01 Harbin Institute of Technology, Ph.D.

2016.09-2016.09 Nanyang Technological University, CSC student

2008.09-2011.03 Harbin Engineering University, M.S.

2004.09-2008.07 Harbin Engineering University, B.S.

Teaching：《Inorganic Chemistry》《College Chemistry》《Fundamentals of engineering chemistry》《Functional Materials》

Research fields: Mussel-Inspired Surface Engineering for Water-Remediation Materials: (1) Developing and designing tannic acid (TA)-based functional coatings; (2) TA-based functional coating for surface engineering of membrane toward wastewater treatment; (3) TA-based functional coating for solar steam generation and desalination.

Research projects：

National Natural Science Foundation of China (22279050, 51903115), the Jiangxi Province Natural Science Foundation (20212ACB214013, 20192BAB203012).

Awards and Honors：

Representative papers and patents：

(1) Zhenxing Wang, Jie Gao, Jiajing Zhou, Jingwen Gong, Longwen Shang, Haobin Ye, Fang He, Shaoqin Peng, Zhixing Lin*, Yuexiang Li*, and Frank Caruso*, Engineering Metal–Phenolic Networks for Solar Desalination with Directional Salt Crystallization, Advanced Materials, 2022, 35, 2209015.

(2) Zhenxing Wang, Haocheng Yang, Fang He, Shaoqin Peng, Yuexiang Li*, Lu Shao*, and Seth B. Darling*, Mussel-Inspired Surface Engineering for Water-Remediation Materials, Matter, 2019, 1, 115-155.

(3) Zhenxing Wang, Bowen He, Gefei Xu, Guojing Wang, Jiayi Wang, Yuhua Feng, Dongmeng Su, Bo Chen, Hai Li, Zhonghua Wu, Hua Zhang, Lu Shao* & Hongyu Chen*, Transformable masks for colloidal nanosynthesis, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 563.

(4) Zhenxing Wang*, Xiaochun Wu, Fang He, Shaoqin Peng, Yuexiang Li*, Confinement capillarity of thin coating for boosting solar-driven water evaporation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2011114.

(5) Zhenxing Wang*, Mingcai Han, Fang He, Shaoqin Peng, Seth B. Darling, and Yuexiang Li*, Versatile coating with multifunctional performance for solar steam generation, Nano Energy, 2020, 74,104886.

(6) Fang He, Mingcai Han, Jin Zhang, Zhenxing Wang*, Xiaochun Wu, Yuyang Zhou, Lefu Jiang, Shaoqin Peng, Yuexiang Li*, A simple, mild and versatile method for preparation of photothermal woods toward highly efficient solar steam generation, Nano Energy, 2020, 71, 104650.

(7) Z Wang, X Yang, Z Cheng*, Y Liu, L Shao*, L Jiang, Simply realizing “water diode” Janus membranes for multifunctional smart applications, Materials Horizons, 2017, 4, 701

(8) Zhenxing Wang, Shengqiang Ji, Fang He, Moyuan Cao,* Shaoqin Peng and Yuexiang Li*, One-step transformation of highly hydrophobic membranes into superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic ones for high-efficiency separation of oil-in-water emulsions, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018,6, 3391

(9) Zhenxing Wang*, Mingcai Han, Jin Zhang, Fang He, Shaoqin Peng, Yuexiang Li*, Investigating and significantly improving the stability of tannic acid (TA)-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) coating for enhanced oil-water separation, Journal of Membrane Science, 2020, 593, 117383.

(10) Zhenxing Wang，Mingcai Han, Jin Zhang, Fang He, Zhaodi Xu, Shaoqin Peng, Yuexiang Li, Designing preferable functional materials based on the secondary reactions of the hierarchical tannic acid (TA)-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) coating, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019, 360, 299-312.