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Overview

Changkun Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and focuses on research mainly in the field of Engineering, with a particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their research also involves Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Automotive Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Electrochemistry.

The primary research topics explored by Changkun Zhang include:

  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Changkun Zhang has contributed to several recent publications that reflect key areas of battery technology and electrochemical energy storage. Notable papers include:

  • "Anode for Zinc-Based Batteries: Challenges, Strategies, and Prospects" (2021, ACS Energy Letters)
  • "Eutectic Electrolytes as a Promising Platform for Next-Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage" (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "Development of flow battery technologies using the principles of sustainable chemistry" (2023, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • "Reversible redox chemistry in azobenzene-based organic molecules for high-capacity and long-life nonaqueous redox flow batteries" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Molecular Engineering of Azobenzene-Based Anolytes Towards High-Capacity Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

The frequently published venues for Zhang's work include:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Advanced Materials

Among Zhang's frequent co-authors are:

  • Xianfeng Li
  • Guihua Yu
  • Leyuan Zhang
  • Tianyu Li
  • Mengqi Zhang

This profile outlines Zhang's engagement with a multidisciplinary approach toward advanced electrochemical systems, focusing on innovations in battery technologies and energy materials within engineering and sustainability domains.

Best Publications

  • Molecular engineering of organic electroactive materials for redox flow batteries

    Yu Ding;Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yangen Zhou

  • Progress and prospects of next-generation redox flow batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yu Ding;Sangshan Peng;Sangshan Peng

  • Anode for Zinc-Based Batteries: Challenges, Strategies, and Prospects

    Wenjing Lu;Changkun Zhang;Huamin Zhang;Xianfeng Li

  • Eutectic Electrolytes as a Promising Platform for Next-Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage.

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Guihua Yu

  • Phenothiazine‐Based Organic Catholyte for High‐Capacity and Long‐Life Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Zhihui Niu;Sangshan Peng;Yu Ding

  • Mesocrystal MnO cubes as anode for Li-ion capacitors

    Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Huanqiao Song;Cuiping Zhang

  • Fast and Reversible Li Ion Insertion in Carbon‐Encapsulated Li3VO4 as Anode for Lithium‐Ion Battery

    Changkun Zhang;Huanqiao Song;Chaofeng Liu;Yaguang Liu

  • Exploiting High-Performance Anode through Tuning the Character of Chemical Bonds for Li-Ion Batteries and Capacitors

    Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Haoyu Fu;Xihui Nan

  • A Self-Healing Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal Anode for Alkali-Ion Batteries

    Xuelin Guo;Yu Ding;Leigang Xue;Leyuan Zhang

  • A Dual-Ion Organic Symmetric Battery Constructed from Phenazine-Based Artificial Bipolar Molecules

    Gaole Dai;Yan He;Zhihui Niu;Ping He

  • A Sustainable Redox‐Flow Battery with an Aluminum‐Based, Deep‐Eutectic‐Solvent Anolyte

    Changkun Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang;Xuelan Wang

  • Self-doped V 4+ –V 2 O 5 nanoflake for 2 Li-ion intercalation with enhanced rate and cycling performance

    Huanqiao Song;Huanqiao Song;Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Guozhong Cao;Guozhong Cao

  • A Low-Cost and High-Energy Hybrid Iron-Aluminum Liquid Battery Achieved by Deep Eutectic Solvents

    Leyuan Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Yu Ding;Katrina Ramirez-Meyers

  • Enhanced storage of sodium ions in Prussian blue cathode material through nickel doping

    Haoyu Fu;Chaofeng Liu;Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Wenda Ma

  • Highly Concentrated Phthalimide-Based Anolytes for Organic Redox Flow Batteries with Enhanced Reversibility

    Changkun Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Zhihui Niu;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang

  • Pathways to Widespread Applications: Development of Redox Flow Batteries Based on New Chemistries

    Yu Ding;Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yangen Zhou

  • Eutectic Electrolytes for High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yu Ding;Xuelin Guo

  • Supported noble metals on hydrogen-treated TiO2 nanotube arrays as highly ordered electrodes for fuel cells.

    Changkun Zhang;Hongmei Yu;Yongkun Li;Yongkun Li;Yuan Gao;Yuan Gao

  • Reversible redox chemistry in azobenzene-based organic molecules for high-capacity and long-life nonaqueous redox flow batteries.

    Leyuan Zhang;Yumin Qian;Ruozhu Feng;Yu Ding

  • Molecular Engineering of Azobenzene-Based Anolytes Towards High-Capacity Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

    Xihong Zu;Xihong Zu;Leyuan Zhang;Yumin Qian;Changkun Zhang

  • Biredox Eutectic Electrolytes Derived from Organic Redox-Active Molecules: High-Energy Storage Systems

    Changkun Zhang;Yumin Qian;Yumin Qian;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Guozhong Cao
Guozhong Cao University of Washington
Guihua Yu
Guihua Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Yu Ding
Yu Ding Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhigang Shao
Zhigang Shao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuan Gao
Yuan Gao Northeastern University
Hongmei Yu
Hongmei Yu Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Baolian Yi
Baolian Yi Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Li Fu
Li Fu Hangzhou Dianzi University
Wei Song
Wei Song University of Alabama
Xiaohong Zhang
Xiaohong Zhang Soochow University

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