Anqi Wang
Dr Anqi Wang is currently a postdoc researcher working on the ERC Starting grant on design and synthesis of polymer membranes for energy applications. He received his BEng degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2016, and received MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Distinction in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. His PhD research project was focused on the design and synthesis of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for battery energy storage. Anqi just started his postdoc research on 1st August 2021.
Email: anqi.wang16@imperial.ac.uk
Selected Publications:
Rui Tan+, Anqi Wang+, Richard Malpass-Evans, Rhodri Williams, Evan Wenbo Zhao, Tao Liu, Chunchun Ye, Xiaoqun Zhou, Barbara Primera Darwich, Zhiyu Fan, Lukas Turcani, Edward Jackson, Linjiang Chen, Samantha Y. Chong, Tao Li, Kim E. Jelfs, Andrew I. Cooper, Nigel P. Brandon, Clare P. Grey, Neil B. McKeown*, and Qilei Song*. Hydrophilic microporous membranes for selective ion separation and flow-battery energy storage. Nature Materials, 19, 195–202(2020). doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0536-8. (+contributed equally).
Evan Wenbo Zhao, Tao Liu, Erlendur Jónsson, Jeongjae Lee, Israel Temprano, Rajesh B. Jethwa, Anqi Wang, Holly Smith, Javier Carretero-González, Qilei Song, Clare P. Grey*. In situ NMR metrology reveals reaction mechanisms in redox flow batteries. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2081-7
Peipei Zuo, Yuanyuan Li, Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Yahua Liu, Xian Liang, Fangmeng Sheng, Gonggeng Tang, Liang Ge, Liang Wu, Qilei Song*, Neil B McKeown*, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Sulfonated microporous polymer membranes with fast and selective ion transport for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2020, 59, 9564. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000012
Chunchun Ye+, Anqi Wang+, Charlotte Breakwell, Rui Tan, C. Grazia Bezzu, Elwin Hunter-Sellars, Daryl R. Williams, Nigel P. Brandon, Peter A. A. Klusener, Anthony R. Kucernak, Kim E. Jelfs, Neil B. McKeown* & Qilei Song*. Development of efficient aqueous organic redox flow batteries using ion-sieving sulfonated polymer membranes. Nature Communications, 13, Article number: 3184 (2022). (+contributed equally)
C. Ye+, R. Tan+, A. Wang+, J. Chen, B. Comesaña Gándara, C. Breakwell, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, Z. Fan, J. Weng, C. G. Bezzu, S. Guldin, N. P. Brandon, A. R. Kucernak, K. E. Jelfs, N. B. McKeown*, Q. Song*, Long-Life Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries Enabled by Amidoxime-Functionalized Ion-Selective Polymer Membranes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202207580; Angew. Chem. 2022, 134, e202207580. (+contributed equally)
Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Charlotte Breakwell, Xiaochu Wei, Zhiyu Fan, Chunchun Ye, Richard Malpass-Evans, Tao Liu, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Kim E. Jelfs, Neil B. McKeown*, Jun Chen, and Qilei Song*. Solution-Processable Redox-Active Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity for Electrochemical Energy Storage. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022 144 (37), 17198-17208.
Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Dezhi Liu, Jiaxin Lu, Xiaochu Wei, Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez, Chunchun Ye, Charlotte Breakwell, Stefan Guldin, Anthony R. Kucernak, Kim E. Jelfs, Nigel P. Brandon, Neil B. McKeown and Qilei Song*. Ion-selective Microporous Polymer Membranes with Hydrogen-bond and Salt-bridge Networks for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2023, 2210098. Link to full paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210098
Yuhua Xia, Mengzheng Ouyang, Vladimir Yufit, Rui Tan, Anna Regoutz, Anqi Wang, Wenjie Mao, Barun Chakrabarti, Ashkan Kavei, Qilei Song, Anthony R. Kucernak & Nigel P. Brandon. A cost-effective alkaline polysulfide-air redox flow battery enabled by a dual-membrane cell architecture. Nature Communications, 13, 2388, 2022.
Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, Wan-Ni Wu, Taliehsadat Alebrahim, Yiming Cao, Benny D Freeman, Daniel Harrigan, Mayank Jhalaria, Adam Kratochvil, Sanat Kumar, Won Hee Lee, Young Moo Lee, Haiqing Lin, Julian M Richardson, Qilei Song, Benjamin Sundell, Raymond Thür, Ivo Vankelecom, Anqi Wang, Lina Wang, Catherine Wiscount, Zachary P Smith. Multi-lab study on the pure-gas permeation of commercial polysulfone (PSf) membranes: Measurement standards and best practices. Journal of Membrane Science. 659, 2022, 120746.
Awards
Best Oral Presentation. International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes 2020.
2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Energy Sector PhD Thesis Award
2021 Julia Higgins Centenary Prize for Best PhD thesis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London