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Overview

TieJun Zhang is affiliated with Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, molecular biology, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and surfaces, coatings and films.

Their main research topics include:

  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds

Scientific collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Aikifa Raza (24 co-authored works)
  • Faisal AlMarzooqi (13 co-authored works)
  • Hongxia Li (12 co-authored works)
  • Afra S. Alketbi (8 co-authored works)
  • Yuwen Li (7 co-authored works)

TieJun Zhang has been published in a variety of venues, notably in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 5 publications
  • PubMed with 4 publications
  • Nature Communications with 3 publications
  • Soft Matter with 3 publications
  • Phytomedicine with 3 publications

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on solar energy, water purification, and materials science:

  • Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Spatial transcriptomics reveals niche-specific enrichment and vulnerabilities of radial glial stem-like cells in malignant gliomas, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Sustainable biomimetic solar distillation with edge crystallization for passive salt collection and zero brine discharge, 2024, Nature Communications
  • A biomimetic beetle-like membrane with superoleophilic SiO2-induced oil coalescence on superhydrophilic CuC2O4 nanosheet arrays for effective O/W emulsion separation, 2023, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Deep learning based semantic segmentation of µCT images for creating digital material twins of fibrous reinforcements, 2020, Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing

Best Publications

  • Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

    George Ni;Gabriel Li;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Hongxia Li

  • Radial-arrayed rotary electrification for high performance triboelectric generator

    Guang Zhu;Jun Chen;Tiejun Zhang;Qingshen Jing

  • Enhancement of Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation by Environmental Energy

    Xiuqiang Li;Jinlei Li;Jinyou Lu;Ning Xu

  • Achieving ultrahigh triboelectric charge density for efficient energy harvesting

    Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Changsheng Wu;Yejing Dai;Yejing Dai;Zhihao Zhao

  • Self-powered, ultra-sensitive, flexible tactile sensors based on contact electrification

    Zhong Lin Wang;Guang Zhu

  • Volumetric solar heating of nanofluids for direct vapor generation

    George Ni;Nenad Miljkovic;Hadi Ghasemi;Xiaopeng Huang

  • Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge.

    Chenlin Zhang;Yusuf Shi;Le Shi;Hongxia Li

  • Blow-driven triboelectric nanogenerator as an active alcohol breath analyzer

    Zhen Wen;Zhen Wen;Jun Chen;Min-Hsin Yeh;Hengyu Guo

  • Superhydrophobic CuO nanoneedle-covered copper surfaces for anticorrosion

    Feng Xiao;Shaojun Yuan;Bin Liang;Guanqiu Li

  • Ledinegg instability in microchannels

    Tiejun Zhang;Tao Tong;Je Young Chang;Yoav Peles

  • Surface Structure Enhanced Microchannel Flow Boiling

    Yangying Zhu;Dion Savio Antao;Kuang-Han Chu;Siyu Chen

  • Analysis and active control of pressure-drop flow instabilities in boiling microchannel systems

    TieJun Zhang;Yoav Peles;John T. Wen;Tao Tong;Tao Tong

  • Nanostructured TiO2/CuO dual-coated copper meshes with superhydrophilic, underwater superoleophobic and self-cleaning properties for highly efficient oil/water separation

    Shaojun Yuan;Chen Chen;Aikifa Raza;Ruixue Song

  • Robust Model Predictive Control for Discrete-Time Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems With Structured Uncertainties and Persistent Disturbances

    Weilin Yang;Gang Feng;Tiejun Zhang

  • Self-Powered Triboelectric Nanosensor for Microfluidics and Cavity-Confined Solution Chemistry.

    Xiuhan Li;Xiuhan Li;Min Hsin Yeh;Zong Hong Lin;Zong Hong Lin;Hengyu Guo

  • Two-phase refrigerant flow instability analysis and active control in transient electronics cooling systems

    TieJun Zhang;John T. Wen;Yoav Peles;Juan Catano

  • Prediction and Characterization of Dry-out Heat Flux in Micropillar Wick Structures.

    Yangying Zhu;Dion S. Antao;Zhengmao Lu;Sivanand Somasundaram

  • Fuzzy Constrained Min-Max Model Predictive Control Based on Piecewise Lyapunov Functions

    Tiejun Zhang;Gang Feng;Jianhong Lu

  • Stability analysis and maldistribution control of two-phase flow in parallel evaporating channels

    TieJun Zhang;John T. Wen;Agung Julius;Yoav Peles

  • Microscopic droplet formation and energy transport analysis of condensation on scalable superhydrophobic nanostructured copper oxide surfaces.

    GuanQiu Li;Mohamed H. Alhosani;ShaoJun Yuan;HaoRan Liu

  • Approaches to Robust Filtering Design of Discrete Time Fuzzy Dynamic Systems

    Gang Feng;Meng Chen;Dong Sun;Tiejun Zhang

  • Unidirectional Fast Growth and Forced Jumping of Stretched Droplets on Nanostructured Microporous Surfaces

    Abulimiti Aili;Hongxia Li;Mohamed H. Alhosani;TieJun Zhang

  • Output tracking of constrained nonlinear processes with offset-free input-to-state stable fuzzy predictive control

    Tiejun Zhang;Gang Feng;Xiao-Jun Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Wen
John T. Wen Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Gang Feng
Gang Feng City University of Hong Kong
Yoav Peles
Yoav Peles University of Central Florida
Nicholas X. Fang
Nicholas X. Fang University of Hong Kong
Shaojun Yuan
Shaojun Yuan Sichuan University
Ravi Prasher
Ravi Prasher Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Md. Mustafizur Rahman
Md. Mustafizur Rahman Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Nenad Miljkovic
Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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