Professor Pengfei Cao (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China), Associate Editor for RSC Applied Polymers, is delighted to share with you some of his top research highlights published in the journal so far.
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Loosely connected to his expertise in synthetic polymers for energy-related applications, here are a selection of the papers he has chosen:
Rachel Blanchard and Tizazu H. Mekonnen
Photopatternable, degradable, and performant polyimide network substrates for e-waste mitigation
Caleb J. Reese, Grant M. Musgrave, Jitkanya Wong, Wenyang Pan, John Uehlin, Mason Zadan, Omar M. Awartani, Thomas J. Wallin and Chen Wang
Dohyun Kim, Rui Sun, Roger Tocchetto, Carl Willis, Bert Krutzer, Frederick L. Beyer and Yossef A. Elabd
Professor Cao shared a video last year to introduce himself:
Find out more about Pengfei Cao
Pengfei Cao is a full Materials Science and Engineering professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT, China). After his Ph.D. in the Macro department at Case Western Reserve University, USA, he moved to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL, USA) and had been a staff scientist since 2019. Pengfei has also been awarded the R&D 100 Award of 2021, the ACS-PMSE Young-Investigator Award of 2021 and the ACS Rising Star in Materials Science of 2023. Pengfei leads the research group of Energy-Applied Elastomers. His current research interests are synthetic elastic polymers for energy-related applications, including functional elastomers (e.g., recyclable, self-healing, impact-resistant or adhesive elastomers) and energy-storage applications (e.g., polymer electrolytes/binders and polymeric protective layers).
Discover some of Pengfei’s research published in RSC journals:
Youjia Zhang, Tianhui Cheng, Shilun Gao, Hang Ding, Zhenxi Li, Lin Li, Dandan Yang, Huabin Yang and Peng-Fei Cao
Mater. Horiz., 2024. DOI: 10.1039/D4MH01037J
Shilun Gao, Mengxiang Ma, Youjia Zhang, Lin Li, Shuangshuang Zhu, Yayue He, Dandan Yang, Huabin Yang and Peng-Fei Cao
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024. DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07586A
Xinyuan Shan, Zhaowei Song, Hang Ding, Lengwan Li, Yuhang Tian, Alexei P. Sokolov, Ming Tian, Kang Xu and Peng-Fei Cao
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024. DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03097D
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