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95
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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76
Citations
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Overview

Yang Zhao is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and specializes in research across several engineering and materials science disciplines, with a focus on battery materials and advanced energy technologies.

Their body of work encompasses the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, particularly within subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment.

Yang Zhao's main topics of research include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Inorganic Chemistry and Materials

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, including:

  • Advanced Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts

Frequent collaborators in their research include Xueliang Sun, Ruying Li, Changhong Wang, Zhiyong Li, and Jianji Wang, reflecting a collaborative approach across multiple publications.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Yang Zhao highlight work on solid-state batteries and advanced materials for energy storage:

  • Site-Occupation-Tuned Superionic LixScCl3+x Halide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • All-solid-state lithium batteries enabled by sulfide electrolytes: from fundamental research to practical engineering design (2021, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • A Versatile Sn-Substituted Argyrodite Sulfide Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Li Metal Batteries (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Ultrastable Anode Interface Achieved by Fluorinating Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Li Metal Batteries (2020, ACS Energy Letters)
  • Highly Stable 3D Ti3C2Tx MXene-Based Foam Architectures toward High-Performance Terahertz Radiation Shielding (2020, ACS Nano)

Best Publications

  • Recent Developments and Understanding of Novel Mixed Transition-Metal Oxides as Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries

    Yang Zhao;Yang Zhao;Xifei Li;Bo Yan;Dongbin Xiong

  • Metal organic frameworks for energy storage and conversion

    Yang Zhao;Zhongxin Song;Xia Li;Qian Sun

  • Superior performance of ordered macroporous TiNb2O7 anodes for lithium ion batteries: Understanding from the structural and pseudocapacitive insights on achieving high rate capability

    Shuaifeng Lou;Shuaifeng Lou;Xinqun Cheng;Yang Zhao;Andrew Lushington

  • Recent developments and insights into the understanding of Na metal anodes for Na-metal batteries

    Yang Zhao;Keegan R. Adair;Xueliang Sun

  • Site-Occupation-Tuned Superionic LixScCl3+xHalide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries.

    Jianwen Liang;Xiaona Li;Shuo Wang;Keegan R Adair

  • Magnetic graphene@PANI@porous TiO2 ternary composites for high-performance electromagnetic wave absorption

    Panbo Liu;Ying Huang;Jing Yan;Yang Zhao

  • Construction of CuS Nanoflakes Vertically Aligned on Magnetically Decorated Graphene and Their Enhanced Microwave Absorption Properties

    Panbo Liu;Ying Huang;Jing Yan;Yiwen Yang

  • Facile preparation, high microwave absorption and microwave absorbing mechanism of RGO–Fe3O4 composites

    Meng Zong;Ying Huang;Yang Zhao;Xu Sun

  • All-solid-state lithium batteries enabled by sulfide electrolytes: from fundamental research to practical engineering design

    Changhong Wang;Jianwen Liang;Yang Zhao;Matthew Zheng

  • Significant impact of 2D graphene nanosheets on large volume change tin-based anodes in lithium-ion batteries: A review

    Yang Zhao;Xifei Li;Bo Yan;Dejun Li

  • Promoting the Transformation of Li2S2 to Li2S: Significantly Increasing Utilization of Active Materials for High‐Sulfur‐Loading Li–S Batteries

    Xiaofei Yang;Xiaofei Yang;Xiaofei Yang;Xuejie Gao;Qian Sun;Sara Panahian Jand

  • Superior Stable and Long Life Sodium Metal Anodes Achieved by Atomic Layer Deposition.

    Yang Zhao;Lyudmila V. Goncharova;Andrew Lushington;Qian Sun

  • A Versatile Sn-Substituted Argyrodite Sulfide Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Li Metal Batteries

    Feipeng Zhao;Jianwen Liang;Chuang Yu;Qian Sun

  • Stabilizing the Interface of NASICON Solid Electrolyte against Li Metal with Atomic Layer Deposition

    Yulong Liu;Qian Sun;Yang Zhao;Biqiong Wang

  • Inorganic–Organic Coating via Molecular Layer Deposition Enables Long Life Sodium Metal Anode

    Yang Zhao;Lyudmila V. Goncharova;Qian Zhang;Payam Kaghazchi

  • A Novel Organic "Polyurea" Thin Film for Ultralong-Life Lithium-Metal Anodes via Molecular-Layer Deposition.

    Yipeng Sun;Yang Zhao;Jiwei Wang;Jianneng Liang

  • Addressing Interfacial Issues in Liquid-Based and Solid-State Batteries by Atomic and Molecular Layer Deposition

    Yang Zhao;Kelly Zheng;Xueliang Sun

  • Ultrastable Anode Interface Achieved by Fluorinating Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Li Metal Batteries

    Feipeng Zhao;Qian Sun;Chuang Yu;Shumin Zhang

  • Insights into interfacial effect and local lithium-ion transport in polycrystalline cathodes of solid-state batteries.

    Shuaifeng Lou;Shuaifeng Lou;Qianwen Liu;Fang Zhang;Qingsong Liu

  • A high-energy sulfur cathode in carbonate electrolyte by eliminating polysulfides via solid-phase lithium-sulfur transformation

    Xia Li;Mohammad Banis;Mohammad Banis;Andrew Lushington;Xiaofei Yang;Xiaofei Yang

  • Unravelling the Chemistry and Microstructure Evolutionof a Cathodic Interface in Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries

    Xia Li;Zhouhong Ren;Mohammad Norouzi Banis;Sixu Deng

Frequent Co-Authors

Xueliang Sun
Xueliang Sun University of Western Ontario
Ruying Li
Ruying Li University of Western Ontario
Qian Sun
Qian Sun University of Western Ontario
Keegan R. Adair
Keegan R. Adair University of Western Ontario
Ying Huang
Ying Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xiaofei Yang
Xiaofei Yang Nanjing Forestry University
Mohammad Norouzi Banis
Mohammad Norouzi Banis General Motors (United States)
Tsun-Kong Sham
Tsun-Kong Sham University of Western Ontario
Xia Li
Xia Li University of Western Ontario
Jianwen Liang
Jianwen Liang General Research Institute For Nonferrous Metals (China)

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