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Shaoan Cheng

Shaoan Cheng

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
68
Citations
27027
World Ranking
1181
National Ranking
230

Chemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
26828
World Ranking
6397
National Ranking
1142

Overview

Shaoan Cheng is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China. Their research principally spans the fields of Energy, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with noted contributions to subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Water Science and Technology; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Environmental Engineering; and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics including Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods, Membrane Separation Technologies, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication.

Shaoan Cheng has frequently published in journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Engineering Journal, Separation and Purification Technology, Desalination, and Chemosphere. These venues each have five or four recorded publications related to their research.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Enhanced Interfacial Solar Evaporation through Formation of Micro-Meniscuses and Microdroplets to Reduce Evaporation Enthalpy" (2022, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "High-flux flowing interfacial water evaporation under multiple heating sources enabled by a biohybrid hydrogel" (2022, Nano Energy)
  • "Micro-Nano Water Film Enabled High-Performance Interfacial Solar Evaporation" (2023, Nano-Micro Letters)
  • "A lotus leaf like vertical hierarchical solar vapor generator for stable and efficient evaporation of high-salinity brine" (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • "Interfacial solar evaporator for clean water production and beyond: From design to application" (2021, Applied Energy)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Ruonan Gu, Beichen Jin, Zhen Yu, Longxin Li, and Yi Sun.

Best Publications

  • Graphite Fiber Brush Anodes for Increased Power Production in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells

    Bruce Logan;Shaoan Cheng;Valerie Watson;Garett Estadt

  • Microbial Electrolysis Cells for High Yield Hydrogen Gas Production from Organic Matter

    Bruce Ernest Logan;Douglas Call;Shaoan Cheng;Hubertus V M Hamelers

  • Increased performance of single-chamber microbial fuel cells using an improved cathode structure

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • Production of Electricity from Acetate or Butyrate Using a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Direct Biological Conversion of Electrical Current into Methane by Electromethanogenesis

    Shaoan Cheng;Defeng Xing;Douglas F. Call;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power generation in fed-batch microbial fuel cells as a function of ionic strength, temperature, and reactor configuration

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power densities using different cathode catalysts (Pt and CoTMPP) and polymer binders (nafion and PTFE) in single chamber microbial fuel cells.

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • AMMONIA TREATMENT OF CARBON CLOTH ANODES TO ENHANCE POWER GENERATION OF MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Increased power generation in a continuous flow MFC with advective flow through the porous anode and reduced electrode spacing.

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • Electricity generation using membrane and salt bridge microbial fuel cells.

    Booki Min;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Sustainable and efficient biohydrogen production via electrohydrogenesis

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power Generation Using Different Cation, Anion, and Ultrafiltration Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Jung Rae Kim;Shaoan Cheng;Sang-Eun Oh;Bruce E Logan

  • Use of Carbon Mesh Anodes and the Effect of Different Pretreatment Methods on Power Production in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Xin Wang;Shaoan Cheng;Yujie Feng;Matthew D. Merrill

  • Electricity generation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris DX-1.

    Defeng Xing;Yi Zuo;Shaoan Cheng;John M. Regan

  • Supported mixed metal nanoparticles as electrocatalysts in low temperature fuel cells

    Kwong-Yu Chan;Jie Ding;Jiawen Ren;Shaoan Cheng

  • Power generation using an activated carbon and metal mesh cathode in a microbial fuel cell

    Fang Zhang;Shaoan Cheng;Shaoan Cheng;Deepak Pant;Gilbert Van Bogaert

  • Increasing power generation for scaling up single-chamber air cathode microbial fuel cells.

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Enhanced Interfacial Solar Evaporation through Formation of Micro‐Meniscuses and Microdroplets to Reduce Evaporation Enthalpy

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  • Microbial fuel cell performance with non-Pt cathode catalysts

    Eileen HaoYu;Shaoan Cheng;Keith Scott;Bruce Logan

  • Separator characteristics for increasing performance of microbial fuel cells.

    Xiaoyuan Zhang;Shaoan Cheng;Xin Wang;Xia Huang

  • Scale-up of membrane-free single-chamber microbial fuel cells

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Liping Huang;Liping Huang;Bruce E. Logan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Logan
Bruce E. Logan Pennsylvania State University
Kwong-Yu Chan
Kwong-Yu Chan University of Hong Kong
Defeng Xing
Defeng Xing Harbin Institute of Technology
Jianqing Zhang
Jianqing Zhang Zhejiang University
Liping Huang
Liping Huang Dalian University of Technology
Toribio F. Otero
Toribio F. Otero Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Chu-nan Cao
Chu-nan Cao Zhejiang University
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Xiaoyuan Zhang
Xiaoyuan Zhang Tsinghua University
Xia Huang
Xia Huang Tsinghua University

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