Name: Zhang Changkun

Title: Professor

Subject: Materials Physics and Chemistry

Email: Zhangchk17@dicp.ac.cn

Research Interests

(1)  Organic redox-active molecules for flow batteries

(2)  Eutectic electrolytes as highly concentrated system for electrochemical energy storage

(3)   Novel battery designing

Biography

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor, P.R. China, 2020/11 - present

Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, U. S.A., 2016/8 - 2020/9

Postdoctoral Fellow, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, P.R. China, 2014/6 - 2016/4

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Ph.D, Chemical Engineering, 2009 - 2012

Harbin Engineering University, B.S., 2005 - 2009

Publications

1. Mengqi Zhang; Tianyu Li; Xianghui Liu; Changkun Zhang;^* Xianfeng Li.^* Molecular Revealing the High-stable Polycyclic Azine Derivatives for Long-Lifetime Aqueous Organic Flow Batteries. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, n/a, 2312608.

2. Ziming Zhao; ^# Xianghui Liu; ^# Mengqi Zhang; ^# Leyuan Zhang; Changkun Zhang;^* Xianfeng Li;^* Guihua Yu.^* Development of flow battery technologies using the principles of sustainable chemistry. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2023, 52, 6031-6074.

3. Xianghui Liu; Tianyu Li; Chagkun Zhang;^* Xianfeng Li.^* Benzidine Derivatives: A Class of High Redox Potential Molecules for Aqueous Organic Flow Batteries. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2023, 62, e202307796. (VIP)

4. Yonghui Zhang; Fan Li; Tianyu Li; Mengqi Zhang; Zhizhang Yuan; Guangjin Hou; Jie Fu;^* Changkun Zhang;^* Xianfeng Li.^* Insight into Air-stable Methylene Blue Catholyte towards kW-scale Practical Aqueous Organic Flow Batteries. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 231-240.

5. Changkun Zhang,^# Hui Chen,^# Yumin Qian,^# Gaole Dai, Yu Zhao, Guihua Yu. General Design Methodology for Organic Eutectic Electrolytes toward High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33(15), 2008560.

6. Changkun Zhang,^# Zhihui Niu,^# Jiwoong Bae, Leyuan Zhang, Yu Zhao, Guihua Yu. Polyeutectic-based stable and effective electrolytes for high-performance energy storage systems. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14, 931-939.

7. Changkun Zhang,^# Leyuan Zhang,^# Guihua Yu. Eutectic electrolytes as a promising platform for next-generation electrochemical energy storage. Acc. Chem. Res., 2020, 53(8): 1648-1659.

8. Changkun Zhang, Zhihui Niu, Sangshan Peng, Yu Ding, Leyuan Zhang, Xuelin Guo, Yu Zhao, Guihua Yu. Phenothiazine-based organic catholyte for high-capacity and long-life aqueous redox flow batteries. Adv. Mater., 2019, 31(24): 1901052-1901059.

9. Changkun Zhang, Yumin Qian, Yu Ding, Leyuan Zhang, Xuelin Guo, Yu Zhao, Guihua Yu. Biredox eutectic electrolytes derived from organic redox-active molecules: High-energy storage systems. Angew. Chem. Int., 2019, 58 (21): 7045-7050.

10. Changkun Zhang,^# Yu Ding,^# Leyuan Zhang,^# Xuelan Wang, Yu Zhao, Xiaohong Zhang, Guihua. Yu. A sustainable redox flow battery with an aluminum-based, deep-eutectic-solvent anolyte. Angew. Chem. Int., 2017, 56(26): 7454-7459. (VIP)

11. Changkun Zhang,^# Leyuan Zhang,^# Yu Ding, Guihua Yu. Eutectic electrolytes for high-energy-density redox flow batteries. ACS Energy Lett., 2018, 3(12) 2875-2883.