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Overview

Yaobin Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the Dalian University of Technology in China. Their primary research contributions span environmental science and engineering, with a significant focus on environmental engineering as a subfield. The research work encompasses critical topics such as microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, membrane separation technologies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, advanced oxidation water treatment, and water treatment and disinfection.

Research publications by Yaobin Zhang have appeared in several well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Water Research, Chemical Engineering Journal, SSRN Electronic Journal, Bioresource Technology, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials. These venues highlight the scientist's engagement with environmental and chemical engineering communities.

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Magnetite-contained biochar derived from fenton sludge modulated electron transfer of microorganisms in anaerobic digestion, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Sparking Anaerobic Digestion: Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer to Enhance Methane Production, 2020, iScience
  • Fe3O4 accelerates tetracycline degradation during anaerobic digestion: Synergistic role of adsorption and microbial metabolism, 2020, Water Research
  • Enhancing anaerobic digestion of kitchen wastes with biochar: Link between different properties and critical mechanisms of promoting interspecies electron transfer, 2020, Renewable Energy
  • The bio-chemical cycle of iron and the function induced by ZVI addition in anaerobic digestion: A review, 2020, Water Research

Yaobin Zhang has collaborated frequently with several researchers throughout their career. Prominent coauthors include Zhiqiang Zhao, Qilin Yu, Lianfu Liang, Cheng Sun, and Zhenxin Wang.

The scientist's research focuses largely on anaerobic digestion processes and biogas production, examining mechanisms such as electron transfer influenced by biochar and mineral additives. These studies contribute to understanding microbial interactions and chemical processes within environmental systems aimed at improving waste treatment and renewable energy generation. Additional work covers water science and technologies relevant to pollution control and membrane separation methods.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge digestion by the addition of zero valent iron

    Yinghong Feng;Yaobin Zhang;Xie Quan;Suo Chen

  • Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon

    Yanming Liu;Yan Su;Xie Quan;Xinfei Fan

  • Enhanced activation of peroxymonosulfate by nitrogen doped porous carbon for effective removal of organic pollutants

    Guanlong Wang;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Fabrication of atomic single layer graphitic-C3N4 and its high performance of photocatalytic disinfection under visible light irradiation

    Huanxin Zhao;Hongtao Yu;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Enhanced Fenton-like catalysis by iron-based metal organic frameworks for degradation of organic pollutants

    Cong Gao;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Enhancing anaerobic digestion of complex organic waste with carbon-based conductive materials.

    Yan Dang;Yan Dang;Dawn E. Holmes;Zhiqiang Zhao;Trevor L. Woodard

  • Enhancing syntrophic metabolism in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors with conductive carbon materials

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yaobin Zhang;T.L. Woodard;K.P. Nevin

  • Uncovering the Key Role of the Fermi Level of the Electron Mediator in a Z-Scheme Photocatalyst by Detecting the Charge Transfer Process of WO3-metal-gC3N4 (Metal = Cu, Ag, Au).

    Houfen Li;Hongtao Yu;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Insights into the fate and removal of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes using biological wastewater treatment technology

    Ting-ting Zhu;Zhong-xian Su;Wen-xia Lai;Yao-bin Zhang

  • Adding granular activated carbon into anaerobic sludge digestion to promote methane production and sludge decomposition

    Yafei Yang;Yaobin Zhang;Zeyu Li;Zhiqiang Zhao

  • Enhanced oxidation of 4-chlorophenol using sulfate radicals generated from zero-valent iron and peroxydisulfate at ambient temperature

    Jinying Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Towards engineering application: Potential mechanism for enhancing anaerobic digestion of complex organic waste with different types of conductive materials

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yang Li;Xie Quan;Yaobin Zhang

  • Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethanol on a Boron- and Nitrogen-Co-doped Nanodiamond

    Yanming Liu;Yujing Zhang;Kai Cheng;Xie Quan

  • Communities stimulated with ethanol to perform direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism of propionate and butyrate

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Qilin Yu;Yan Dang

  • Potential enhancement of direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism of propionate and butyrate with biochar in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors.

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yaobin Zhang;Dawn E. Holmes;Yan Dang

  • Why do DIETers like drinking: Metagenomic analysis for methane and energy metabolism during anaerobic digestion with ethanol

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Jianfeng Wang;Yang Li;Tingting Zhu

  • Efficient Mineralization of Perfluorooctanoate by Electro-Fenton with H2O2 Electro-generated on Hierarchically Porous Carbon

    Yanming Liu;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Enhanced production of methane from waste activated sludge by the combination of high-solid anaerobic digestion and microbial electrolysis cell with iron–graphite electrode

    Yinghong Feng;Yaobin Zhang;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan

  • Comparing the mechanisms of ZVI and Fe3O4 for promoting waste-activated sludge digestion.

    Zisheng Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yang Li;Xie Quan

  • Ferroferric oxide triggered possible direct interspecies electron transfer between Syntrophomonas and Methanosaeta to enhance waste activated sludge anaerobic digestion

    Zisheng Zhao;Yang Li;Qilin Yu;Yaobin Zhang

  • Potentially shifting from interspecies hydrogen transfer to direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism to resist acidic impact with conductive carbon cloth

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yang Li;Yan Dang;Yan Dang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xie Quan
Xie Quan Dalian University of Technology
Shuo Chen
Shuo Chen Dalian University of Technology
Yiwen Liu
Yiwen Liu University of Technology Sydney
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xinyong Li
Xinyong Li Dalian University of Technology
Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cheng Sun
Cheng Sun Northwestern University
Fenglin Yang
Fenglin Yang Dalian University of Technology
Bing-Jie Ni
Bing-Jie Ni University of New South Wales
Dawn E. Holmes
Dawn E. Holmes Western New England University

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