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Tongwen Xu is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with notable work in subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, water science and technology, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics:

  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Tongwen Xu has published extensively in several scientific journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • AIChE Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • Desalination

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Liang Wu, Zhengjin Yang, Xiaolin Ge, Yaoming Wang, and Chenxiao Jiang, each with multiple joint publications.

Recent publications by Tongwen Xu highlight a strong focus on membranes and ion transport in various energy and separation applications:

  • "Efficient Ion Sieving in Covalent Organic Framework Membranes with Sub-2-Nanometer Channels," published in 2021 in Advanced Materials
  • "Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes," published in 2023 in Nature
  • "Sulfonated Microporous Polymer Membranes with Fast and Selective Ion Transport for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage," published in 2020 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Upscaled production of an ultramicroporous anion-exchange membrane enables long-term operation in electrochemical energy devices," published in 2023 in Nature Communications
  • "Self-aggregating cationic-chains enable alkaline stable ion-conducting channels for anion-exchange membrane fuel cells," published in 2020 in Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Best Publications

  • Anion-exchange membranes in electrochemical energy systems

    JR John Varcoe;Plamen Atanassov;Dario Dekel;AM Andrew Herring

  • Ion exchange membranes: State of their development and perspective

    Tongwen Xu

  • Ion exchange membranes: New developments and applications

    Jin Ran;Liang Wu;Yubin He;Zhengjin Yang

  • Elemental selenium at nano size (Nano-Se) as a potential chemopreventive agent with reduced risk of selenium toxicity: comparison with se-methylselenocysteine in mice.

    Jinsong Zhang;Xufang Wang;Tongwen Xu

  • Dendrimers as drug carriers: Applications in different routes of drug administration

    Yiyun Cheng;Zhenhua Xu;Minglu Ma;Tongwen Xu

  • Design of biocompatible dendrimers for cancer diagnosis and therapy: current status and future perspectives

    Yiyun Cheng;Libo Zhao;Yiwen Li;Tongwen Xu

  • Application of electrodialysis to the production of organic acids: State-of-the-art and recent developments

    Chuanhui Huang;Tongwen Xu;Yaping Zhang;Yanhong Xue

  • Electrodialysis‐based separation technologies: A critical review

    Tongwen Xu;Chuanhui Huang

  • Diffusion dialysis-concept, principle and applications

    Jingyi Luo;Cuiming Wu;Tongwen Xu;Yonghui Wu

  • Targeting cancer cells with biotin-dendrimer conjugates.

    Wenjun Yang;Yiyun Cheng;Tongwen Xu;Xueyuan Wang

  • Mixed matrix proton exchange membranes for fuel cells: State of the art and perspectives

    Erigene Bakangura;Liang Wu;Liang Ge;Zhengjin Yang

  • Anion-immobilized polymer electrolyte achieved by cationic metal-organic framework filler for dendrite-free solid-state batteries

    Hanyu Huo;Bin Wu;Tao Zhang;Xusheng Zheng

  • Efficient Ion Sieving in Covalent Organic Framework Membranes with Sub-2-Nanometer Channels.

    Fangmeng Sheng;Bin Wu;Xingya Li;Tingting Xu

  • A Long-Lifetime All-Organic Aqueous Flow Battery Utilizing TMAP-TEMPO Radical

    Yahua Liu;Marc-Antoni Goulet;Liuchuan Tong;Yazhi Liu

  • Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes for sustainable development.

    Chuanhui Huang;Tongwen Xu

  • Which is more competitive for production of organic acids, ion-exchange or electrodialysis with bipolar membranes?

    Yaoming Wang;Chuanhui Huang;Tongwen Xu

  • Highly Conductive Anion-Exchange Membranes from Microporous Tröger's Base Polymers

    Zhengjin Yang;Rui Guo;Richard Malpass-Evans;Mariolino Carta

  • Beneficial use of rotatable-spacer side-chains in alkaline anion exchange membranes for fuel cells

    Yuan Zhu;Liang Ding;Xian Liang;Muhammad A. Shehzad

  • Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO)—A versatile starting polymer for proton conductive membranes (PCMs)

    Tongwen Xu;Dan Wu;Liang Wu

  • Sulfonated microporous polymer membranes with fast and selective ion transport for electrochemical energy conversion and storage

    Peipei Zuo;Yuanyuan Li;Anqi Wang;Rui Tan

  • Development of imidazolium-type alkaline anion exchange membranes for fuel cell application

    Jin Ran;Liang Wu;John R. Varcoe;Ai Lien Ong

  • Pharmaceutical applications of dendrimers: promising nanocarriers for drug delivery.

    Yiyun Cheng;Jinrong Wang;Tingling Rao;Xiaoxiao He

  • Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers as biocompatible carriers of quinolone antimicrobials: an in vitro study.

    Yiyun Cheng;Haiou Qu;Minglu Ma;Zhenhua Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhengjin Yang
Zhengjin Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Yiyun Cheng
Yiyun Cheng East China Normal University
Huanting Wang
Huanting Wang Monash University
John R. Varcoe
John R. Varcoe University of Surrey
Seung-Hyeon Moon
Seung-Hyeon Moon Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Yiwen Li
Yiwen Li Sichuan University
Jefferson Zhe Liu
Jefferson Zhe Liu University of Melbourne
Jinsong Zhang
Jinsong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biao Kong
Biao Kong Fudan University
Longping Wen
Longping Wen South China University of Technology

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