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Chuanfang Zhang is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and materials science, with specific attention to materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. They have also worked in biomedical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and mechanical engineering as subfields of study.

The primary topics of Zhang's research include MXene and MAX phase materials, advancements in battery materials, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, fault detection and control systems, and advanced memory and neural computing.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • MXene Materials for Designing Advanced Separation Membranes, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Turning Trash into Treasure: Additive Free MXene Sediment Inks for Screen-Printed Micro-Supercapacitors, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Perspectives on solution processing of two-dimensional MXenes, 2021, Materials Today
  • Two-dimensional MXenes for lithium-sulfur batteries, 2020, InfoMat
  • Room-temperature high-precision printing of flexible wireless electronics based on MXene inks, 2022, Nature Communications

Zhang frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Jakob Heier, Kaixiang Peng, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh, Shungui Deng, and Jie Dong.

The venues where Zhang has most frequently published are:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Nano
  • Energy storage materials

Best Publications

  • Oxidation Stability of Colloidal Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbides (MXenes)

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Sergio Pinilla;Sergio Pinilla;Niall McEvoy;Conor P. Cullen

  • Flexible MXene/Carbon Nanotube Composite Paper with High Volumetric Capacitance

    Meng-Qiang Zhao;Chang E. Ren;Zheng Ling;Zheng Ling;Maria R. Lukatskaya

  • Transparent, Flexible, and Conductive 2D Titanium Carbide (MXene) Films with High Volumetric Capacitance.

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Babak Anasori;Andrés Seral-Ascaso;Sang-Hoon Park

  • Additive-free MXene inks and direct printing of micro-supercapacitors

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Lorcan McKeon;Matthias P Kremer;Sang-Hoon Park

  • One-step synthesis of nanocrystalline transition metal oxides on thin sheets of disordered graphitic carbon by oxidation of MXenes.

    Michael Naguib;Olha Mashtalir;Maria R. Lukatskaya;Boris Dyatkin

  • Stamping of Flexible, Coplanar Micro‐Supercapacitors Using MXene Inks

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Matthias P. Kremer;Andrés Seral-Ascaso;Sang-Hoon Park

  • Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes): Synthesis, Properties, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications

    Chuanfang (John) Zhang;Yonglu Ma;Xuetao Zhang;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

  • A Commercial Conducting Polymer as Both Binder and Conductive Additive for Silicon Nanoparticle-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrodes.

    Thomas M Higgins;Sang-Hoon Park;Paul J King;Paul J King;Chuanfang John Zhang

  • MXene Materials for Designing Advanced Separation Membranes

    Hüseyin Enis Karahan;Hüseyin Enis Karahan;Kunli Goh;Chuanfang John Zhang;Euntae Yang;Euntae Yang

  • High areal capacity battery electrodes enabled by segregated nanotube networks

    Sang-Hoon Park;Paul J. King;Paul J. King;Ruiyuan Tian;Conor S. Boland

  • Graphene and MXene-based transparent conductive electrodes and supercapacitors

    Chuanfang (John) Zhang;Valeria Nicolosi

  • Nanocellulose-MXene Biomimetic Aerogels with Orientation-Tunable Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance

    Zhihui Zeng;Changxian Wang;Gilberto Siqueira;Daxin Han

  • Free-Standing T-Nb₂O₅/Graphene Composite Papers with Ultrahigh Gravimetric/Volumetric Capacitance for Li-Ion Intercalation Pseudocapacitor.

    Lingping Kong;Chuanfang Zhang;Jitong Wang;Wenming Qiao

  • Layered Orthorhombic Nb2O5@Nb4C3Tx and TiO2@Ti3C2Tx Hierarchical Composites for High Performance Li-ion Batteries

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Chuanfang John Zhang;Seon Joon Kim;Seon Joon Kim;Michael Ghidiu;Meng-Qiang Zhao

  • Turning Trash into Treasure: Additive Free MXene Sediment Inks for Screen-Printed Micro-Supercapacitors.

    Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;René Schneider;Anand Verma;Jakob Heier

  • High capacity silicon anodes enabled by MXene viscous aqueous ink

    Chuanfang John Zhang;Sang-Hoon Park;Andrés Seral-Ascaso;Sebastian Barwich

  • Perspectives on solution processing of two-dimensional MXenes

    Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Xiantao Jiang;Han Zhang;Jieshan Qiu

  • Room-temperature high-precision printing of flexible wireless electronics based on MXene inks

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  • Highly flexible and transparent solid-state supercapacitors based on RuO2/PEDOT:PSS conductive ultrathin films

    Chuanfang (John) Zhang;Chuanfang (John) Zhang;Thomas M. Higgins;Sang-Hoon Park;Sean E. O'Brien

  • Environmental Friendly Scalable Production of Colloidal 2D Titanium Carbonitride MXene with Minimized Nanosheets Restacking for Excellent Cycle Life Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Fei Du;Huan Tang;Limei Pan;Tian Zhang

  • Two-dimensional MXenes for lithium-sulfur batteries

    Chuanfang (John) Zhang;Linfan Cui;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh;Jakob Heier

  • A Robust, Freestanding MXene‐Sulfur Conductive Paper for Long‐Lifetime Li–S Batteries

    Huan Tang;Wenlong Li;Limei Pan;Kejun Tu

  • Synthesis and Charge Storage Properties of Hierarchical Niobium Pentoxide/Carbon/Niobium Carbide (MXene) Hybrid Materials

    Chuanfang Zhang;Chuanfang Zhang;Majid Beidaghi;Michael Naguib;Maria R. Lukatskaya

  • High mass loading, binder-free MXene anodes for high areal capacity Li-ion batteries

    Seon Joon Kim;Seon Joon Kim;Michael Naguib;Mengqiang Zhao;Chuanfang Zhang;Chuanfang Zhang

  • Al-doped α-MnO2 for high mass-loading pseudocapacitor with excellent cycling stability

    Zhimi Hu;Xu Xiao;Chi Chen;Tianqi Li

  • Novel solvothermal preparation and enhanced microwave absorption properties of Ti3C2Tx MXene modified by in situ coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles

    Xiang Zhang;Hehe Wang;Rui Hu;Chenyang Huang

  • High-power and high-energy asymmetric supercapacitors based on Li+-intercalation into a T-Nb2O5/graphene pseudocapacitive electrode

    Lingping Kong;Chuanfang Zhang;Songmin Zhang;Jitong Wang

  • Foldable supercapacitors from triple networks of macroporous cellulose fibers, single-walled carbon nanotubes and polyaniline nanoribbons

    Dengteng Ge;Lili Yang;Lili Yang;Lei Fan;Chuanfang Zhang

  • Highly porous carbon spheres for electrochemical capacitors and capacitive flowable suspension electrodes

    Chuanfang Zhang;Chuanfang Zhang;Kelsey B. Hatzell;Muhammad Boota;Boris Dyatkin

  • Nitrogen-enriched meso-macroporous carbon fiber network as a binder-free flexible electrode for supercapacitors

    Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Li Yang;Xiangying Ni;Jie Han

  • Freestanding functionalized carbon nanotube-based electrode for solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors

    Xu Xiao;Xu Xiao;Tianqi Li;Zehua Peng;Huanyu Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Valeria Nicolosi
Valeria Nicolosi Trinity College Dublin
Donghui Long
Donghui Long East China University of Science and Technology
Wenming Qiao
Wenming Qiao East China University of Science and Technology
Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi Drexel University
Licheng Ling
Licheng Ling East China University of Science and Technology
Jitong Wang
Jitong Wang East China University of Science and Technology
Jonathan N. Coleman
Jonathan N. Coleman Trinity College Dublin
Xu Xiao
Xu Xiao University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Niall McEvoy
Niall McEvoy Trinity College Dublin
Majid Beidaghi
Majid Beidaghi Auburn University

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