Research @ Faculty of Science 2023

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED BIOLOGY & CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 66 Email zijian.zheng@polyu.edu.hk Qualification BEng (Tsinghua University) PhD (University of Cambridge) ORCID ID 0000-0002-6653-7594 Prof. ZHENG Zijian Chair Professor of Soft Materials and Devices Research Overview Soft electronics that can bend, fold, and stretch show remarkable impact in a wide variety of areas ranging from displays, information technology, energy harvesting and storage, to robotics, health, medicine, and fashion. Prof. Zheng’s research interests focus on tackling the key challenges in soft electronics in the following aspects: (1) synthesis, preparation and modification of solution-processable soft conductors (2) advanced fabrication technologies for large-area and nanoscale patterning on soft substrates (3) biocompatible and wearable electronic devices (4) flexible and stretchable supercapacitors and batteries Representative Publications • “Permeable Superelastic Liquid Metal Fiber Mat Enables Biocompatible and Monolithic Stretchable Electronics”. Nat. Mater. 2021, 20, 859 • “Smoothing sodium metal anode with a self-regulating alloy interface for high-energy and sustainable sodium metal battery”. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2102802 • “Flexible and stable high-energy lithium-sulfur full batteries with only 100% oversized lithium”, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 4480 • “Wearable Energy-Dense and Power-Dense Supercapacitor Yarns Enabled by Scalable Graphene-Metallic Textile Composite Electrodes”. Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 7260 • “Matrix-Assisted Catalytic Printing for the Fabrication of Multi-Scale, Flexible, Foldable, and Stretchable Metal Conductors”. Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 3343 Awards and Achievements Prof. Zheng joined PolyU as Assistant Professor in 2009, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2013, Professor in 2017 and Chair Professor in 2023. He has published around 190 papers in journals including Science, Nat. Mater., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chem. Prof. Zheng has also filed over 40 patents and is the recipient of more than 15 academic awards. Prof. Zheng serves as Guest Editor of Advanced Materials and Small, and Editor-in-Chief of EcoMat, a flagship open-access journal in green energy and environment published by Wiley. He was elected Founding Member of The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (2018), Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), Senior Research Fellow of the University Grant Committee of Hong Kong (2021), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022).

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