Jun. 2021: The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), and Northeast Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA) have joined together to organize the Lithium Battery Recycling webinar

Aug. 2021: Dr. Wen Zhang’s team member joined the AWWA NJ in Atlantic City and presented his research.  

Jul. 2021: Dr. Zhang’s group members participated the first 2021 virtual CAPEES e-poster competition on July 17, 2021. Dr. Weihua Qing won the best poster award. 

Sep. 2021: A visiting Ph.D. student, Xiaoyu Wang published a paper in ACS ES&T Engineering, and reported a electromagnetic catalysis system.

Dec. 2021: A membrane-bubbling method to produce bulk nanobubbles in water has been approved for the US patent.

Jun. 2021: Photocatalytically Reductive Defluorination of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) using Pt/La2Ti2O7 Nanoplates: Experimental and DFT Assessment.

Feb. 2021: Probing Internal Pressures and Long-term Stability of Nanobubbles in Water.

Jun. 2021: Professor Wen Zhang was invited to report for RCR seminar about seeking sustainable pathways for spend lithium-ion batteries.

Wen Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Principal Investigator
Professor

Phone: (973) 596-5520 
Fax: (973) 596-5790
Email: wen.zhang@njit.edu

Office Location: Colton Hall 211

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Jan. 2021: Recovery of Lithium and Cobalt from Spent Lithium Ion Batteries Using Organic Aqua Regia (OAR): Assessment of Leaching Kinetics and Global Warming Potentials.

Nov. 2021: Aeration and Dissolution Behavior of Oxygen Nanobubbles in Water.

Jul. 2021: Conversion of Spiky Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua) Seeds as into Bio-adsorbent: Static and Dynamic Adsorption Assessment.

Jul. 2021: Congratulations! Jeffrey Luk won the Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award: Honorable Mention – Environment and Sustainability.

Mar. 2021: Dr. Zhang was invited to give a talk on his project at NJIT related to the proposed air-flotation boat on the 2021 Virtual HAB Summit

Feb. 2021: Probing Surface Electrochemical Activity of Nanomaterials using a Hybrid Atomic Force Microscope-Scanning Electrochemical Microscope (AFM-SECM).

Jan. 2021: Dr. Zhang’s  group is awarded $500,000 from NJDEP to work in partnerships with MERI and BRISEA Inc. to design and launch a mobile floating platform to mechanically remove and mitigate harmful algal blooms (HABs) at Branch Brook Lake and Deal Lake.

Oct. 2021: Congratulations! Samuel Solomon and John Spero received the 2021 Undergraduate Research Innovation Phase II Grant.

Sep. 2021: Effect of Single Atom Platinum (Pt) Doping and Facet Dependent on the Electronic Structure and Light Absorption of Lanthanum Titanium Oxide (La2Ti2O7): A Density Functional Theory Study.

Feb. 2021: Fangzhou Liu received the Modern-day Techonology Leader Award at the 2021 BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference.

Feb. 2021: Fangzhou Liu attended the 2021 New Jersey Site Remediation Virtual Conference and won the Student Poster Competition

Aug. 2021: Dr. Wen Zhang’s team members joined the NAMS in Colorado and presented their research.  

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Aug. 2021: Environmental Engineering Doctoral Student Jianan Gao Receives $55,000 NSF INTERN Grant.

Nov. 2021: Jianan Gao and Fangzhou Liu received 2021 ACS-ENVR Certificate of Merit Award from the Environmental Chemistry Division of National American Chemical Society.

Jun. 2021: Conductive Fe3O4/PANI@PTFE Membrane for High Thermal Efficiency in Interfacial Induction Heating Membrane Distillation.


Jan. 2021: Experimental and Computational Assessment of 1,4-Dioxane Degradation in a Photo-Fenton Reactive Ceramic Membrane Filtration Process.

May. 2021: Fangzhou Liu received 2021 John J. LaGrosa Award from the New Jersey Water Environment Association

Aug. 2021: Dr. Wen Zhang’s team members joined the ACS Fall 2021 in Atlanta and presented their research.  

Nov. 2021: Qian Lei defended his doctoral dissertation successfully to the committee.

Aug. 2021: Environmental Engineering Doctoral Student Fangzhou Liu Receives $55,000 NSF INTERN Grant.

 Wen's Research Group​

Aug. 2021: An interdisciplinary team from Tongji University, Fudan University and NJIT  published “Nanobubbles promote nutrient utilization and plant growth in rice by upregulating nutrient uptake genes and stimulating growth hormone production”.

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Feb. 2021: CEE PhD student, Xiaonan Shi, received the 2020 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry (ENVR) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS)