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Donghai Wang

Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Mechanical Engineering

134 Energy and Environment Building

duw13@psu.edu

814-863-1287

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Research Areas:

Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences

Interest Areas:

Design & synthesis of nanostructured inorganic materials, high surface-area nanoporous materials, carbon nanostructures, nanocomposites. Processing/structure/properties/performance relationships in energy conversion & storage for batteries and fuel cells.

 
 

 

Education

  • BE, Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1997
  • MS, Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2000
  • Ph D, Chemical Engineering, Tulane University, 2006

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Shuhua Shan, Mihir Parekh, Rong Kou, Donghai Wang and Christopher Rahn, 2024, "Increasing the Cycle Life of Zinc Metal Anodes and Nickel-Zinc Cells Using Flow-Through Alkaline Electrolytes", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171, (3), pp. 032503
  • Guo-Xing Li, Peter Lennartz, Volodymyr Koverga, Rong Kou, Au Nguyen, Heng Jiang, Meng Liao, Daiwei Wang, Naveen Dandu, Michael Zepeda, Haiying Wang, Ke Wang, Anh T. Ngo, Gunther Brunklaus and Donghai Wang, 2024, "Interfacial solvation-structure regulation for stable Li metal anode by a desolvation coating technique", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, (4)
  • Shuhua Shan, Mihir Parekh, Rong Kou, Donghai Wang and Christopher Rahn, 2023, "Aqueous Zinc Sulfate Flow Through a Copper Mesh Anode Improves Zinc Metal Electrodeposition Morphology and Impedance", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170, (9), pp. 092501
  • Linh Le, Meng Liao, Au Nguyen and Donghai Wang, 2023, "Promoting a Stable Interface Using Localized High-Concentration Carbonate-Based Electrolyte for Li Metal Batteries", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, (31), pp. 37497-37503
  • Li-Ji Jhang, Daiwei Wang, Alexander Silver, Xiaolin Li, David Reed and Donghai Wang, 2023, "Stable all-solid-state sodium-sulfur batteries for low-temperature operation enabled by sodium alloy anode and confined sulfur cathode", Nano Energy, 105, pp. 107995
  • Guo-Xing Li, Heng Jiang, Rong Kou, Daiwei Wang, Au Nguyen, Meng Liao, Pei Shi, Alexander Silver and Donghai Wang, 2022, "A Superior Carbonate Electrolyte for Stable Cycling Li Metal Batteries Using High Ni Cathode", ACS ENERGY LETTERS, pp. 2282-2288
  • Au Nguyen, Peng Zuo, Heng Jiang, Chongmin Wang and Donghai Wang, 2022, "Dual Protective Mechanism of AlPO4 Coating on High-Nickel Cathode Material for High Energy Density and Long Cycle Life Lithium-Ion Batteries", JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 169, (5)
  • Timothy P Cleary, Zahra Nozarijouybari, Daiwei Wang, Donghai Wang, Christopher Rahn and Hosam Kadry Fathy, 2022, "An Experimentally Parameterized Equivalent Circuit Model of a Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Battery", BATTERIES-BASEL, 8, (12)
  • Chuang Yue, Seho Sun, Minchul Jang, Eunkyung Park, Byoungkuk Son, Hyunsu Son, Zhiming Liu, Donghai Wang, Ungyu Paik and Taeseup Song, 2021, "A robust solid electrolyte interphase layer coated on polyethylene separator surface induced by Ge interlayer for stable Li-metal batteries", ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA, 370
  • Qiliang Chen, Wei Guo, Donghai Wang and Yongzhu Fu, 2021, "A self-healing Li-S redox flow battery with alternative reaction pathways", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 9, (21), pp. 12652-12658
  • Wei Guo, Wanying Zhang, Yubing Si, Donghai Wang, Yongzhu Fu and Arumugam Manthiram, 2021, "Artificial dual solid-electrolyte interfaces based on in situ organothiol transformation in lithium sulfur battery", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12, (1)
  • Atif S. Alzahrani, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Daiwei Wang, Yue Gao, Timothy S. Arthur, Shuai Liu and Donghai Wang, 2021, "Confining Sulfur in Porous Carbon by Vapor Deposition to Achieve High-Performance Cathode for All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 6, (2), pp. 413-418
  • Chu Xu, Timothy P Cleary, Daiwei Wang, Guoxing Li, Christopher Rahn, Donghai Wang, Rajesh Rajamani and Hosam Kadry Fathy, 2021, "Online state estimation for a physics-based Lithium-Sulfur battery model", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 489
  • Jiahan Song, Yubing Si, Wei Guo, Donghai Wang and Yongzhu Fu, 2021, "Organosulfide-Based Deep Eutectic Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 60, (18), pp. 9881-9885
  • Shanhai Ge, Yongjun Leng, Teng Liu, Ryan S. Longchamps, Xiao-Guang Yang, Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Donghai Wang and Chao-Yang Wang, 2020, "A new approach to both high safety and high performance of lithium-ion batteries", SCIENCE ADVANCES, 6, (9)
  • Linze Li, Ethan Self, Devendrasinh Darbar, Lianfeng Zou, Indranil Bhattacharya, Donghai Wang, Jagjit Nanda and Chongmin Wang, 2020, "Hidden Subsurface Reconstruction and Its Atomic Origins in Layered Oxide Cathodes", NANO LETTERS, 20, (4), pp. 2756-2762
  • Yue Gao, Tomas Rojas, Ke Wang, Shuai Liu, Daiwei Wang, Tianhang Chen, Haiying Wang, Anh T. Ngo and Donghai Wang, 2020, "Low-temperature and high-rate-charging lithium metal batteries enabled by an electrochemically active monolayer-regulated interface", NATURE ENERGY, 5, (7), pp. 534-542
  • Jun Ma, Cody Gonzalez, Qingquan Huang, Joseph Farese, Christopher Rahn, Mary I Frecker and Donghai Wang, 2020, "Multifunctional Li(Ni0.5Co0.2Mn0.3) O-2-Si batteries with self-actuation and self-sensing", JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES, 31, (6), pp. 860-868
  • Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Yun Kyung Shin, Zhifei Yan, Zhuo Han, Ke Wang, Md Jamil Hossain, Shuling Shen, Atif AlZahrani, van Duin, Adri C. T., Thomas E Mallouk and Donghai Wang, 2020, "Stable metal anodes enabled by a labile organic molecule bonded to a reduced graphene oxide aerogel", PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117, (48), pp. 30135-30141
  • Jianwei Wang, Bo Zhou, Hongyang Zhao, Miaomiao Wu, Yaodong Yang, Xiaolei Sun, Donghai Wang and Yaping Du, 2019, "A sandwich-type sulfur cathode based on multifunctional ceria hollow spheres for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries", MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS, 3, (7), pp. 1317-1322
  • Xiao-Guang Yang, Teng Liu, Yue Gao, Shanhai Ge, Yongjun Leng, Donghai Wang and Chao-Yang Wang, 2019, "Asymmetric Temperature Modulation for Extreme Fast Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries", JOULE, 3, (12), pp. 3002-3019
  • Linze Li, Jianguo Yu, Devendrasinh Darbar, Ethan C. Self, Donghai Wang, Jagjit Nanda, Indranil Bhattacharya and Chongmin Wang, 2019, "Atomic-Scale Mechanisms of Enhanced Electrochemical Properties of Mo-Doped Co-Free Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries", ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 4, (10), pp. 2540-2546
  • Guoxing Li, Zhe Liu, Daiwei Wang, Xin He, Shuai Liu, Yue Gao, Atif AlZahrani, Seong H Kim, Long-Qing Chen and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Electrokinetic Phenomena Enhanced Lithium-Ion Transport in Leaky Film for Stable Lithium Metal Anodes", ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 9, (22)
  • Fang Dai, Ran Yi, Hui Yang, Yuming Zhao, Langli Luo, Mikhail L. Gordin, Hiesang Sohn, Shuru Chen, Chongmin Wang, Sulin Zhang and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Minimized Volume Expansion in Hierarchical Porous Silicon upon Lithiation", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 11, (14), pp. 13257-13263
  • Yue Gao, Zhifei Yan, Jennifer L. Gray, Xin He, Daiwei Wang, Tianhang Chen, Qingquan Huang, Yuguang C. Li, Haiying Wang, Seong H Kim, Thomas E Mallouk and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Polymer-inorganic solid-electrolyte interphase for stable lithium metal batteries under lean electrolyte conditions", NATURE MATERIALS, 18, (4), pp. 384-+
  • Yuming Zhao, Guoxing Li, Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Qingquan Huang and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Stable Li Metal Anode by a Hybrid Lithium Polysulfidophosphate/Polymer Cross-Linking Film", ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 4, (6), pp. 1271-1278
  • Yuming Zhao, Daiwei Wang, Yue Gao, Tianhang Chen, Qingquan Huang and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Stable Li metal anode by a polyvinyl alcohol protection layer via modifying solid-electrolyte interphase layer", NANO ENERGY, 64
  • Qingquan Huang, Jiangxuan Song, Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Shuai Liu, Shufu Peng, Courtney Usher, Alan Goliaszewski and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Supremely elastic gel polymer electrolyte enables a reliable electrode structure for silicon-based anodes", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Shun-Li Shang, Daiwei Wang, Yuguang C. Li, Hemant P Yennawar, Guoxing Li, Haw-Tyng Huang, Yue Gao, Thomas E Mallouk, Zi-Kui Liu and Donghai Wang, 2019, "Synthesis and understanding of Na11Sn2PSe12 with enhanced ionic conductivity for all-solid-state Na-ion battery", ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS, 17, pp. 70-77
  • Ling Zhou, Lin Yao, Shixiong Li, Jiantao Zai, Shutang Li, Qingquan He, Kai He, Xiaomin Li, Donghai Wang and Xuefeng Qian, 2019, "The combination of intercalation and conversion reactions to improve the volumetric capacity of the cathode in Li-S batteries", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 7, (8), pp. 3618-3623
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Shun-Li Shang, Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Xiaolin Li, Zi-Kui Liu and Donghai Wang, 2018, "A quaternary sodium superionic conductor-Na10.8Sn1.9PS11.8", NANO ENERGY, 47, pp. 325-330
  • Duihai Tang, Wenting Zhang, Zhen-An Qiao, Yunling Liu and Donghai Wang, 2018, "Polyanthraquinone/CNT nanocomposites as cathodes for rechargeable lithium ion batteries", MATERIALS LETTERS, 214, pp. 107-110
  • Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Yuguang C. Li, Zhaoxin Yu, Thomas E Mallouk and Donghai Wang, 2018, "Salt-Based Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites: Towards A Stable Lithium Metal/Li10GeP2S12 Solid Electrolyte Interface", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 57, (41), pp. 13608-13612
  • Guoxing Li, Qingquan Huang, Xin He, Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Seong H Kim and Donghai Wang, 2018, "Self-Formed Hybrid Interphase Layer on Lithium Metal for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", ACS NANO, 12, (2), pp. 1500-1507
  • Guoxing Li, Zhe Liu, Qingquan Huang, Yue Gao, Michael Regula, Daiwei Wang, Long-Qing Chen and Donghai Wang, 2018, "Stable metal battery anodes enabled by polyethylenimine sponge hosts by way of electrokinetic effects", NATURE ENERGY, 3, (12), pp. 1076-1083
  • Shuru Chen, Daiwei Wang, Yuming Zhao and Donghai Wang, 2018, "Superior Performance of a Lithium-Sulfur Battery Enabled by a Dimethyl Trisulfide Containing Electrolyte", SMALL METHODS, 2, (6), pp. 1800038
  • Shuru Chen, Zhaoxin Yu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ran Yi, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2017, "A Fluorinated Ether Electrolyte Enabled High Performance Prelithiated Graphite/Sulfur Batteries", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 9, (8), pp. 6959-6966
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Jiangxuan Song, Daiwei Wang and Donghai Wang, 2017, "Advanced anode for sodium-ion battery with promising long cycling stability achieved by tuning phosphorus-carbon nanostructures", NANO ENERGY, 40, pp. 550-558
  • Duihai Tang, Ran Yi, Wenting Zhang, Zhenan Qiao, Yunling Liu, Qisheng Huo and Donghai Wang, 2017, "Bottom-up synthesis of mesoporous carbon/silicon carbide composite at low temperature for supercapacitor electrodes", MATERIALS LETTERS, 198, pp. 140-143
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Shun-Li Shang, Joo-Hwan Seo, Daiwei Wang, Xiangyi Luo, Qingquan Huang, Shuru Chen, Jun Lu, Xiaolin Li, Zi-Kui Liu and Donghai Wang, 2017, "Exceptionally High Ionic Conductivity in Na3P0.62As0.38S4 with Improved Moisture Stability for Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 29, (16)
  • Yue Gao, Ran Yi, Yuguang C. Li, Jiangxuan Song, Shuru Chen, Qingquan Huang, Thomas E Mallouk and Donghai Wang, 2017, "General Method of Manipulating Formation, Composition, and Morphology of Solid-Electrolyte Interphases for Stable Li-Alloy Anodes", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 139, (48), pp. 17359-17367
  • Shuru Chen, Yue Gao, Zhaoxin Yu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2017, "High capacity of lithium-sulfur batteries at low electrolyte/sulfur ratio enabled by an organosulfide containing electrolyte", NANO ENERGY, 31, pp. 418-423
  • Yue Gao, Yuming Zhao, Yuguang C. Li, Qingquan Huang, Thomas E Mallouk and Donghai Wang, 2017, "Interfacial Chemistry Regulation via a Skin-Grafting Strategy Enables High-Performance Lithium-Metal Batteries", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 139, (43), pp. 15288-15291
  • Guoxing Li, Yue Gao, Xin He, Qingquan Huang, Shuru Chen, Seong H Kim and Donghai Wang, 2017, "Organosulfide-plasticized solid-electrolyte interphase layer enables stable lithium metal anodes for long-cycle lithium-sulfur batteries", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 8
  • Shun-Li Shang, Zhaoxin Yu, Yi Wang, Donghai Wang and Zi-Kui Liu, 2017, "Origin of Outstanding Phase and Moisture Stability in a Na3P1-xAsxS4 Superionic Conductor", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 9, (19), pp. 16261-16269
  • Jiangxuan Song, Zhaoxin Yu, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Advanced Sulfur Cathode Enabled by Highly Crumpled Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Sheets for High-Energy-Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", NANO LETTERS, 16, (2), pp. 864-870
  • Gen Chen, Shengping Wang, Ran Yi, Longfei Tan, Hongbo Li, Meng Zhou, Litao Yan, Yingbing Jiang, Shuai Tan, Donghai Wang, Shuguang Deng, Xianwei Meng and Hongmei Luo, 2016, "Facile synthesis of hierarchical MoS2-carbon microspheres as a robust anode for lithium ion batteries", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 4, (24), pp. 9653-9660
  • Shuru Chen, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin, Zhaoxin Yu, Yue Gao, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Functional Organosulfide Electrolyte Promotes an Alternate Reaction Pathway to Achieve High Performance in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 55, (13), pp. 4231-4235
  • Ran Yi, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Integrating Si nanoscale building blocks into micro-sized materials to enable practical applications in lithium-ion batteries", NANOSCALE, 8, (4), pp. 1834-1848
  • Hiesang Sohn, Mikhail L. Gordin, Michael Regula, Dong Hyeon Kim, Yoon Seok Jung, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Porous spherical polyacrylonitrile-carbon nanocomposite with high loading of sulfur for lithium-sulfur batteries", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 302, pp. 70-78
  • Duihai Tang, Qingquan Huang, Ran Yi, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shi Hu, Shuru Chen, Zhaoxin Yu, Hiesang Sohn, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Room-Temperature Synthesis of Mesoporous Sn/SnO2 Composite as Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries", EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, (13-14), pp. 1950-1954
  • Guo Ai, Zhihui Wang, Hui Zhao, Wenfeng Mao, Yanbao Fu, Ran Yi, Yue Gao, Vincent Battaglia, Donghai Wang, Sergey Lopatin and Gao Liu, 2016, "Scalable process for application of stabilized lithium metal powder in Li-ion batteries", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 309, pp. 33-41
  • Duihai Tang, Shi Hu, Fang Dai, Ran Yi, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shuru Chen, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Self-Templated Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon from Carbon Tetrachloride Precursor for Supercapacitor Electrodes", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 8, (11), pp. 6779-6783
  • Hiesang Sohn, Dong Hyeon Kim, Ran Yi, Duihai Tang, Sang-Eui Lee, Yoon Seok Jung and Donghai Wang, 2016, "Semimicro-size agglomerate structured silicon-carbon composite as an anode material for high performance lithium-ion batteries", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 334, pp. 128-136
  • Hai Zhong, Yanbo Yang, Fei Ding, Donghai Wang, Yunhong Zhou and Hui Zhan, 2015, "A Si-MnOOH composite with superior lithium storage properties", CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 51, (28), pp. 6164-6167
  • Jiangxuan Song, Zhaoxin Yu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Xiaolin Li, Huisheng Peng and Donghai Wang, 2015, "Advanced Sodium Ion Battery Anode Constructed via Chemical Bonding between Phosphorus, Carbon Nanotube, and Cross-Linked Polymer Binder", ACS NANO, 9, (12), pp. 11933-11941
  • Nasim Azimi, Zheng Xue, Nancy Dietz Rago, Christos Takoudis, Mikhail L. Gordin, Jiangxuan Song, Donghai Wang and Zhengcheng Zhang, 2015, "Fluorinated Electrolytes for Li-S Battery: Suppressing the Self-Discharge with an Electrolyte Containing Fluoroether Solvent", JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 162, (1), pp. A64-A68
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Jiangxuan Song, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ran Yi, Duihai Tang and Donghai Wang, 2015, "Phosphorus-Graphene Nanosheet Hybrids as Lithium-Ion Anode with Exceptional High-Temperature Cycling Stability", ADVANCED SCIENCE, 2, (1-2)
  • Zhiping Song, Yumin Qian, Mikhail L. Gordin, Duihai Tang, Terrence Xu, Minoru Otani, Hui Zhan, Haoshen Zhou and Donghai Wang, 2015, "Polyanthraquinone as a Reliable Organic Electrode for Stable and Fast Lithium Storage", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 54, (47), pp. 13947-13951
  • Houpu Li, Jiajie Guo, Hao Sun, Xin Fang, Donghai Wang and Huisheng Peng, 2015, "Stable Hydrophobic Ionic Liquid Gel Electrolyte for Stretchable Fiber-Shaped Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell", CHEMNANOMAT, 1, (6), pp. 399-402
  • Jiangxuan Song, Mikhail L. Gordin, Terrence Xu, Shuru Chen, Zhaoxin Yu, Hiesang Sohn, Jun Lu, Yang Ren, Yuhua Duan and Donghai Wang, 2015, "Strong Lithium Polysulfide Chemisorption on Electroactive Sites of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Composites For High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 54, (14), pp. 4325-4329
  • Zhaoxin Yu, Shun-Li Shang, Mikhail L. Gordin, Adnan Mousharraf, Zi-Kui Liu and Donghai Wang, 2015, "Ti-substituted Li[Li0.26Mn0.6TixNi0.07Co0.07]O-2 layered cathode material with improved structural stability and suppressed voltage fading", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 3, (33), pp. 17376-17384
  • Nasim Azimi, Zheng Xue, Ira Bloom, Mikhail L. Gordin, Donghai Wang, Tad Daniel, Christos Takoudis and Zhengcheng Zhang, 2015, "Understanding the Effect of a Fluorinated Ether on the Performance of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 7, (17), pp. 9169-9177
  • Dongping Lv, Duihai Tang, Yuhua Duan, Mikhail L. Gordin, Fang Dai, Pengyu Zhu, Jiangxuan Song, Ayyakkannu Manivannan and Donghai Wang, 2014, "A study of a fluorine substituted phenyl based complex as a 3 V electrolyte for Mg batteries", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 2, (37), pp. 15488-15494
  • Mikhail L. Gordin, Fang Dai, Shuru Chen, Terrence Xu, Jiangxuan Song, Duihai Tang, Nasim Azimi, Zhengcheng Zhang and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) Ether As an Electrolyte Co-solvent for Mitigating Self-Discharge in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 6, (11), pp. 8006-8010
  • Fang Dai, Jiantao Zai, Ran Yi, Mikhail L. Gordin, Hiesang Sohn, Shuru Chen and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Bottom-up synthesis of high surface area mesoporous crystalline silicon and evaluation of its hydrogen evolution performance", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 5
  • Jiangxuan Song, Zhaoxin Yu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shi Hu, Ran Yi, Duihai Tang, Timothy Walter, Michael Regula, Daiwon Choi, Xiaolin Li, Ayyakkannu Maniyannan and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Chemically Bonded Phosphorus/Graphene Hybrid as a High Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries", NANO LETTERS, 14, (11), pp. 6329-6335
  • Ran Yi, Jiantao Zai, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Dual conductive network-enabled graphene/Si-C composite anode with high areal capacity for lithium-ion batteries", NANO ENERGY, 6, pp. 211-218
  • Da Chen, Ran Yi, Shuru Chen, Terrence Xu, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Facile synthesis of graphene-silicon nanocomposites with an advanced binder for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes", SOLID STATE IONICS, 254, pp. 65-71
  • Jiangxuan Song, Zhaoxin Yu, Terrence Xu, Shuru Chen, Hiesang Sohn, Michael Regula and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Flexible freestanding sandwich-structured sulfur cathode with superior performance for lithium-sulfur batteries", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 2, (23), pp. 8623-8627
  • Dongping Lv, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ran Yi, Terrence Xu, Jiangxuan Song, Ying-Bing Jiang, Daiwon Choi and Donghai Wang, 2014, "GeOx/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite as an Anode for Li-Ion Batteries: Enhanced Capacity via Reversible Utilization of Li2O along with Improved Rate Performance", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 24, (8), pp. 1059-1066
  • Ran Yi, Shuru Chen, Jiangxuan Song, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ayyakkannu Manivannan and Donghai Wang, 2014, "High-Performance Hybrid Supercapacitor Enabled by a High-Rate Si-based Anode", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 24, (47), pp. 7433-7439
  • Jiangxuan Song, Mingjiong Zhou, Ran Yi, Terrence Xu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Duihai Tang, Zhaoxin Yu, Michael Regula and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Interpenetrated Gel Polymer Binder for High-Performance Silicon Anodes in Lithium-ion Batteries", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 24, (37), pp. 5904-5910
  • Pengyu Zhu, Jiangxuan Song, Dongping Lv, Donghai Wang, Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Tianpin Wu and Yongsheng Chen, 2014, "Mechanism of Enhanced Carbon Cathode Performance by Nitrogen Doping in Lithium-Sulfur Battery: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 118, (15), pp. 7765-7771
  • Jiangxuan Song, Shuru Chen, Mingjiong Zhou, Terrence Xu, Dongping Lv, Mikhail L. Gordin, Tianjun Long, Michael Melnyk and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Micro-sized silicon-carbon composites composed of carbon-coated sub-10 nm Si primary particles as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 2, (5), pp. 1257-1262
  • Jiangxuan Song, Terrence Xu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Pengyu Zhu, Dongping Lv, Ying-Bing Jiang, Yongsheng Chen, Yuhua Duan and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Nitrogen- Doped Mesoporous Carbon Promoted Chemical Adsorption of Sulfur and Fabrication of High- Areal- Capacity Sulfur Cathode with Exceptional Cycling Stability for Lithium- Sulfur Batteries", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 24, (9), pp. 1243-1250
  • Hiesang Sohn, Mikhail L. Gordin, Terrence Xu, Shuru Chen, Dongping Lv, Jiangxuan Song, Ayyakkannu Manivannan and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Porous Spherical Carbon/Sulfur Nanocomposites by Aerosol-Assisted Synthesis: The Effect of Pore Structure and Morphology on Their Electrochemical Performance As Lithium/Sulfur Battery Cathodes", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 6, (10), pp. 7596-7606
  • Da Chen, Ran Yi, Shuru Chen, Terrence Xu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Dongping Lv and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Solvothermal synthesis of V2O5/graphene nanocomposites for high performance lithium ion batteries", MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS, 185, pp. 7-12
  • Duihai Tang, Ran Yi, Mikhail L. Gordin, Michael Melnyk, Fang Dai, Shuru Chen, Jiangxuan Song and Donghai Wang, 2014, "Titanium nitride coating to enhance the performance of silicon nanoparticles as a lithium-ion battery anode", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 2, (27), pp. 10375-10378
  • Dongping Lv, Terrence Xu, Partha Saha, Moni Kanchan Datta, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ayyakkannu Manivannan, Prashant N. Kumta and Donghai Wang, 2013, "A Scientific Study of Current Collectors for Mg Batteries in Mg(AlCl2EtBu)(2)/THF Electrolyte", JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 160, (2), pp. A351-A355
  • Ran Yi, Jinkui Feng, Dongping Lv, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shuru Chen, Daiwon Choi and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Amorphous Zn2GeO4 nanoparticles as anodes with high reversible capacity and long cycling life for Li-ion batteries", NANO ENERGY, 2, (4), pp. 498-504
  • Mingjiong Zhou, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shuru Chen, Terrence Xu, Jiangxuan Song, Dongping Lv and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Enhanced performance of SiO/Fe2O3 composite as an anode for rechargeable Li-ion batteries", ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS, 28, pp. 79-82
  • Shuru Chen, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Exceptional electrochemical performance of rechargeable Li-S batteries with a polysulfide-containing electrolyte", RSC ADVANCES, 3, (11), pp. 3540-3543
  • Ran Yi, Jiantao Zai, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Improved rate capability of Si-C composite anodes by boron doping for lithium-ion batteries", ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS, 36, pp. 29-32
  • Ran Yi, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin, Hiesang Sohn and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Influence of Silicon Nanoscale Building Blocks Size and Carbon Coating on the Performance of Micro-Sized Si-C Composite Li-Ion Anodes", ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 3, (11), pp. 1507-1515
  • Terrence Xu, Jiangxuan Song, Mikhail L. Gordin, Hiesang Sohn, Zhaoxin Yu, Shuru Chen and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Mesoporous Carbon-Carbon Nanotube-Sulfur Composite Microspheres for High-Areal-Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 5, (21), pp. 11355-11362
  • Ran Yi, Fang Dai, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shuru Chen and Donghai Wang, 2013, "Micro-sized Si-C Composite with Interconnected Nanoscale Building Blocks as High-Performance Anodes for Practical Application in Lithium-Ion Batteries", ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 3, (3), pp. 295-300
  • Fang Dai, Ran Yi, Mikhail L. Gordin, Shuru Chen and Donghai Wang, 2012, "Amorphous Si/SiOx/SiO2 nanocomposites via facile scalable synthesis as anode materials for Li-ion batteries with long cycling life", RSC ADVANCES, 2, (33), pp. 12710-12713
  • Juan Li, Kake Zhu, Jianying Shang, Donghai Wang, Zimin Nie, Ruisong Guo, Chongxuan Liu, Zheming Wang, Xiaolin Li and Jun Liu, 2012, "Fluorescent Functionalized Mesoporous Silica for Radioactive Material Extraction", SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 47, (10), pp. 1507-1513
  • Vaughn, Dimitri D., II, Olivia D. Hentz, Shuru Chen, Donghai Wang and Raymond Schaak, 2012, "Formation of SnS nanoflowers for lithium ion batteries", CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 48, (45), pp. 5608-5610
  • Yun Xu, Ran Yi, Bin Yuan, Xiaofei Wu, Marco Dunwell, Qianglu Lin, Ling Fei, Shuguang Deng, Paul Andersen, Donghai Wang and Hongmei Luo, 2012, "High Capacity MoO2/Graphite Oxide Composite Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 3, (3), pp. 309-314
  • Zhiping Song, Terrence Xu, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ying-Bing Jiang, In-Tae Bae, Qiangfeng Xiao, Hui Zhan, Jun Liu and Donghai Wang, 2012, "Polymer-Graphene Nanocomposites as Ultrafast-Charge and -Discharge Cathodes for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries", NANO LETTERS, 12, (5), pp. 2205-2211
  • Li-Qiong Wang, Donghai Wang, Jun Liu and Gregory J. Exarhos, 2012, "Probing Porosity and Pore interconnectivity in Self-Assembled TiO2-Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures Using Hyperpolarized Xe-129 NMR", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 116, (1), pp. 22-29
  • Shuru Chen, Mikhail L. Gordin, Ran Yi, Giles Howlett, Hiesang Sohn and Donghai Wang, 2012, "Silicon core-hollow carbon shell nanocomposites with tunable buffer voids for high capacity anodes of lithium-ion batteries", PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 14, (37), pp. 12741-12745
  • Rong Kou, Yuyan Shao, Donghai Mei, Zimin Nie, Donghai Wang, Chongmin Wang, Vilayanur V. Viswanathan, Sehkyu Park, Ilhan A. Aksay, Yuehe Lin, Yong Wang and Jun Liu, 2011, "Stabilization of Electrocatalytic Metal Nanoparticles at Metal-Metal Oxide-Graphene Triple Junction Points", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 133, (8), pp. 2541-2547
  • Vilayanur V. Viswanathan, Daiwon Choi, Donghai Wang, Wu Xu, Silas Towne, Ralph E. Williford, Ji-Guang Zhang, Jun Liu and Zhenguo Yang, 2010, "Effect of entropy change of lithium intercalation in cathodes and anodes on Li-ion battery thermal management", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 195, (11), pp. 3720-3729
  • Juan Li, Jun Liu, Donghai Wang, Ruisong Guo, Xiaolin Li and Wen Qi, 2010, "Interfacially Controlled Synthesis of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Spheres with Radially Oriented Pore Structures", LANGMUIR, 26, (14), pp. 12267-12272
  • Daiwon Choi, Donghai Wang, Vish V. Viswanathan, In-Tae Bae, Wei Wang, Zimin Nie, Ji-Guang Zhang, Gordon L. Graff, Jun Liu, Zhenguo Yang and Tien Duong, 2010, "Li-ion batteries from LiFePO4 cathode and anatase/graphene composite anode for stationary energy storage", ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS, 12, (3), pp. 378-381
  • Daiwon Choi, Donghai Wang, In-Tae Bae, Jie Xiao, Zimin Nie, Wei Wang, Vilayanur V. Viswanathan, Yun Jung Lee, Ji-Guang Zhang, Gordon L. Graff, Zhenguo Yang and Jun Liu, 2010, "LiMnPO4 Nanoplate Grown via Solid-State Reaction in Molten Hydrocarbon for Li-Ion Battery Cathode", NANO LETTERS, 10, (8), pp. 2799-2805
  • Terrence Xu, Wei Wang, Mikhail L. Gordin, Donghai Wang and Daiwon Choi, 2010, "Lithium-ion Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage", JOM, 62, (9), pp. 24-30
  • Jie Xiao, Donghai Wang, Wu Xu, Deyu Wang, Ralph E. Williford, Jun Liu and Ji-Guang Zhang, 2010, "Optimization of Air Electrode for Li/Air Batteries", JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 157, (4), pp. A487-A492
  • Donghai Wang, Rong Kou, Daiwon Choi, Zhenguo Yang, Zimin Nie, Juan Li, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Dehong Hu, Jiguang Zhang, Gordon L. Graff, Jun Liu, Michael A. Pope and Ilhan A. Aksay, 2010, "Ternary Self-Assembly of Ordered Metal Oxide-Graphene Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Energy Storage", ACS NANO, 4, (3), pp. 1587-1595
  • Ji-Guang Zhang, Jun Liu, Donghai Wang, Daiwon Choi, Leonard S. Fifield, Chongmin Wang, Gordon Xia, Zimin Nie, Zhenguo Yang, Larry R. Pederson and Gordon Graff, 2010, "Vapor-induced solid-liquid-solid process for silicon-based nanowire growth", JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 195, (6), pp. 1691-1697
  • Rong Kou, Yuyan Shao, Donghai Wang, Mark H. Engelhard, Ja Hun Kwak, Jun Wang, Vilayanur V. Viswanathan, Chongmin Wang, Yuehe Lin, Yong Wang, Ilhan A. Aksay and Jun Liu, 2009, "Enhanced activity and stability of Pt catalysts on functionalized graphene sheets for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction", ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS, 11, (5), pp. 954-957
  • Hong Wu, Jun Wang, Xinhuang Kang, Chongmin Wang, Donghai Wang, Jun Liu, Ilhan A. Aksay and Yuehe Lin, 2009, "Glucose biosensor based on immobilization of glucose oxidase in platinum nanoparticles/graphene/chitosan nanocomposite film", TALANTA, 80, (1), pp. 403-406
  • Li-Qiong Wang, Donghai Wang, Jun Liu, Gregory J. Exarhos, Shane Pawsey and Igor Moudrakovski, 2009, "Probing Porosity and Pore Interconnectivity in Crystalline Mesoporous TiO2 Using Hyperpolarized Xe-129 NMR", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 113, (16), pp. 6577-6583
  • Donghai Wang, Daiwon Choi, Juan Li, Zhenguo Yang, Zimin Nie, Rong Kou, Dehong Hu, Chongmin Wang, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Jiguang Zhang, Ilhan A. Aksay and Jun Liu, 2009, "Self-Assembled TiO2-Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Li-Ion Insertion", ACS NANO, 3, (4), pp. 907-914
  • Donghai Wang, Zhen Ma, Sheng Dai, Jun Liu, Zimin Nie, Mark H. Engelhard, Qisheng Huo, Chongmin Wang and Rong Kou, 2008, "Low-temperature synthesis of tunable mesoporous crystalline transition metal oxides and applications as Au catalyst supports", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 112, (35), pp. 13499-13509
  • Donghai Wang, Daiwon Choi, Zhenguo Yang, Vilayanur V. Viswanathan, Zimin Nie, Chongmin Wang, Yujiang Song, Ji-Guang Zhang and Jun Liu, 2008, "Synthesis and Li-Ion insertion properties of highly crystalline mesoporous rutile TiO2", CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 20, (10), pp. 3435-3442
  • Donghai Wang, Hans Peter Jakobson, Rong Kou, Jing Tang, Robert Z. Fineman, Donghong Yu and Yunfeng Lu, 2006, "Metal and semiconductor nanowire network thin films with hierarchical pore structures", CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 18, (18), pp. 4231-4237
  • Donghai Wang, Jun Liu, Qisheng Huo, Zimin Nie, Weigang Lu, Rick E. Williford and Ying-Bing Jiang, 2006, "Surface-mediated growth of transparent, oriented, and well-defined nanocrystalline anatase titania films", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 128, (42), pp. 13670-13671
  • Donghai Wang, Rong Kou, Zhenglong Yang, Jibao He, Zhenzhong Yang and Yunfeng Lu, 2005, "Hierachical mesoporous silica wires by confined assembly", CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, (2), pp. 166--167
  • Hongmei Luo, Donghai Wang, Jibao He and Yunfeng Lu, 2005, "Magnetic cobalt nanowire thin films", The JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 109, (5), pp. 1919--1922
  • Donghai Wang, Rong Kou, Maria P Gil, Hans Peter Jakobson, Jing Tang, Donghong Yu and Yunfeng Lu, 2005, "Templated synthesis, characterization, and sensing application of macroscopic platinum nanowire network electrodes", JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, 5, (11), pp. 1904--1909
  • Donghai Wang, HM Luo, R Kou, MP Gil, SG Xiao, VO Golub, ZZ Yang, CJ Brinker and YF Lu, 2004, "A general route to macroscopic hierarchical 3D nanowire networks", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 43, (45), pp. 6169-6173
  • JE Hampsey, CL De Castro, B McCaughey, Donghai Wang, BS Mitchell and YF Lu, 2004, "Preparation of micrometer- to sub-micrometer-sized nanostructured silica particles using high-energy ball milling", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 87, (7), pp. 1280-1286
  • JB Pang, X Li, Donghai Wang, ZW Wu, VT John, ZZ Yang and YF Lu, 2004, "Silica-templated continuous mesoporous carbon films by a spin-coating technique", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 16, (11), pp. 884-886
  • YF Lu, BF McCaughey, Donghai Wang, JE Hampsey, N Doke, ZZ Yang and CJ Brinker, 2003, "Aerosol-assisted formation of mesostructured thin films", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 15, (20), pp. 1733-1736
  • Donghai Wang, XL Ji, JB Pang, QY Hu, HF Xu and YF Lu, 2003, "Electric field-induced mesostructure transformation of self-assembled silica/copolymer nanocomposite thin films", PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 5, (19), pp. 4070-4072
  • Donghai Wang, WL Zhou, BF McCaughy, JE Hampsey, XL Ji, YB Jiang, HF Xu, JK Tang, RH Schmehl, C O’Connor, CJ Brinker and YF Lu, 2003, "Electrodeposition of metallic nanowire thin films using mesoporous silica templates", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 15, (2), pp. 130-133
  • B McCaughey, C Costello, Donghai Wang, JE Hampsey, ZZ Yang, CJ Li, CJ Brinker and YF Lu, 2003, "Self-assembly of mesostructured conjugated poly(2,5-thienylene ethynylene)/silica nanocomposites", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 15, (15), pp. 1266-1269
  • Heng Jiang, Longteng Tang, Yanke Fu, Shitong Wang, Sean K. Sandstrom, Alexis M. Scida, Guoxing Li, David Hoang, Jessica J. Hong, Nan-Chieh Chiu, Kyriakos C. Stylianou, William F. Stickle, Donghai Wang, Ju Li, P. Alex Greaney, Chong Fang and Xiulei Ji, , "Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency", Nature Sustainability, 6, (7), pp. 806-815
  • Daiwei Wang, Li-Ji Jhang, Rong Kou, Meng Liao, Shiyao Zheng, Heng Jiang, Pei Shi, Guo-Xing Li, Kui Meng and Donghai Wang, , "Realizing high-capacity all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries using a low-density inorganic solid-state electrolyte", Nature Communications, 14, (1)
  • Timothy P Cleary, Zahra Nozarijouybari, Daiwei Wang, Donghai Wang, Christopher Rahn and Hosam Kadry Fathy, , "An Experimentally Parameterized Equivalent Circuit Model of a Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Battery", Batteries, 8, (12), pp. 269

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Honors and Awards

  • Advancement of Knowledge Award, Institute of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University, January 2023 - December 2023
  • Highly Cited Researcher 2018-2023, Web of Science, 2018 - 2022
  • Faculty Scholar Medal, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020
  • Outstanding Research Award, Penn State Engineering Alumni Association, 2013

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