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Fei Zhao is affiliated with the Beijing Institute of Technology in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics related to renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental solutions.

The scientist's work is primarily focused on the development of solar-powered water purification methods, membrane separation technologies, and advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials. Additional areas of specialization include solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, adsorption and cooling systems, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, as well as conducting polymers and their applications.

Fei Zhao has published several notable papers, including:

  • Materials for solar-powered water evaporation, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Biomass-Derived Hybrid Hydrogel Evaporators for Cost-Effective Solar Water Purification, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Atmospheric Water Harvesting: A Review of Material and Structural Designs, 2020, ACS Materials Letters
  • Topology-Controlled Hydration of Polymer Network in Hydrogels for Solar-Driven Wastewater Treatment, 2020, Advanced Materials

Frequent coauthors in Fei Zhao's publications include Guihua Yu, Xingyi Zhou, Youhong Guo, Wen Shi, and Hengyi Lu.

The scientist has contributed notably to journals and venues such as:

  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Materials Letters
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Reviews Materials

Their research subfields reflect a focus on renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, water science and technology, and biomedical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

    Fei Zhao;Xingyi Zhou;Ye Shi;Xin Qian

  • Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

    Fei Zhao;Youhong Guo;Xingyi Zhou;Wen Shi

  • Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability.

    Youhong Guo;Jiwoong Bae;Zhiwei Fang;Panpan Li

  • Architecting highly hydratable polymer networks to tune the water state for solar water purification

    Xingyi Zhou;Fei Zhao;Youhong Guo;Brian Rosenberger

  • A hydrogel-based antifouling solar evaporator for highly efficient water desalination

    Xingyi Zhou;Fei Zhao;Youhong Guo;Yi Zhang

  • Biomass‐Derived Hybrid Hydrogel Evaporators for Cost‐Effective Solar Water Purification

    Youhong Guo;Hengyi Lu;Fei Zhao;Xingyi Zhou

  • Direct Power Generation from a Graphene Oxide Film under Moisture.

    Fei Zhao;Huhu Cheng;Zhipan Zhang;Lan Jiang

  • A 3D Nanostructured Hydrogel Framework-Derived High-Performance Composite Polymer Lithium-Ion Electrolyte

    Jiwoong Bae;Yutao Li;Jun Zhang;Xingyi Zhou

  • Hydrogels as an Emerging Material Platform for Solar Water Purification.

    Xingyi Zhou;Youhong Guo;Fei Zhao;Guihua Yu

  • Stretchable All-Gel-State Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitors Enabled by Macromolecularly Interconnected 3D Graphene/Nanostructured Conductive Polymer Hydrogels

    Panpan Li;Panpan Li;Zhaoyu Jin;Lele Peng;Fei Zhao

  • Super Moisture-Absorbent Gels for All-Weather Atmospheric Water Harvesting.

    Fei Zhao;Xingyi Zhou;Yi Liu;Ye Shi

  • Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanoribbons: Graphene‐Assisted Formation and Synergic Function for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

    Yang Zhao;Fei Zhao;Xiaopeng Wang;Chenyu Xu

  • Atmospheric Water Harvesting: A Review of Material and Structural Designs

    Xingyi Zhou;Hengyi Lu;Fei Zhao;Guihua Yu

  • Synergistic Energy Nanoconfinement and Water Activation in Hydrogels for Efficient Solar Water Desalination.

    Youhong Guo;Xingyi Zhou;Fei Zhao;Jiwoong Bae

  • Multifunctional Nanostructured Conductive Polymer Gels: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

    Fei Zhao;Ye Shi;Lijia Pan;Guihua Yu

  • Highly efficient moisture-enabled electricity generation from graphene oxide frameworks

    Fei Zhao;Yuan Liang;Huhu Cheng;Lan Jiang

  • Topology-Controlled Hydration of Polymer Network in Hydrogels for Solar-Driven Wastewater Treatment.

    Xingyi Zhou;Youhong Guo;Fei Zhao;Wen Shi

  • Tailoring surface wetting states for ultrafast solar-driven water evaporation

    Youhong Guo;Xiao Zhao;Fei Zhao;Zihao Jiao

  • Tailoring Nanoscale Surface Topography of Hydrogel for Efficient Solar Vapor Generation.

    Youhong Guo;Fei Zhao;Xingyi Zhou;Zhichao Chen

  • Moisture‐Activated Torsional Graphene‐Fiber Motor

    Huhu Cheng;Yue Hu;Fei Zhao;Zelin Dong

Frequent Co-Authors

Liangti Qu
Liangti Qu Tsinghua University
Guihua Yu
Guihua Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Huhu Cheng
Huhu Cheng Tsinghua University
Lan Jiang
Lan Jiang Beijing Institute of Technology
Nan Chen
Nan Chen Beijing Institute of Technology
Chuangang Hu
Chuangang Hu Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Yang Zhao
Yang Zhao Beijing Institute of Technology
Yutao Li
Yutao Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gaoquan Shi
Gaoquan Shi Tsinghua University

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