Representative Papers

1.Aqueous Zinc Batteries

Yinyan Deng, Zhenyang Xiao, Wurong Xu, Yuxuan Wang, Zhiping Peng, Linfeng Fei*, Tao Wang*. Moderate yet Reversible Oligozwitterion Adsorption Unlocks Stable Zinc-Ion Batteries. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2025, 202509652.

2.Aqueous Lithium Batteries

Yinyan Deng, Chunxian Xing, Chuan Li, Yangbo Zhou, Zhiping Peng, Linfeng Fei*, Chunyi Zhi*, and Tao Wang*. Effective Water Confinement and Dual Electrolyte-Electrode Interfaces by Zwitterionic Oligomer for High-Voltage Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 2416566.

3.Aqueous Supercapacitors

Haichao Xu,# Qing Wang,# Yinyan Deng, Zhiping Peng, and Tao Wang*. Improving the Capacitance of Hydrogel-based Supercapacitors by Pre-depositing a Zwitterionic 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene. Electrochimica Acta, 2024, 477, 143785.

4.Interface Reactions

Tao Wang,* Zheng Li, Runfa Zong, Jingzhe Li. Studies on Thiol Etching of Gold by Using QCM-D Sensor as the Sacrificial Probe. ChemPhysChem, 2022, 23, e202100790.

5.Hydrogels

Ran Kou#, Tao Wang#, Zhen Chen, Renwei Zhu, Hongtao Cai, Haoming Pang, Shouhu Xuan, and Guangming Liu*. Controlling Hydrogel Properties by the Cooperative Harvesting of the Components of Sunlight. Langmuir, 2019, 35, 13110-13115.

6.Composite Materials

Tao Wang*, Matthew D. J. Quinn, Shannon M. Notley. Enhanced electrical, mechanical and thermal properties by exfoliating graphene platelets of larger lateral dimensions. Carbon, 2018, 129, 191-198.

7.Ion Effects

Tao Wang, Ran Kou, Huili Liu, Lvdan Liu, Guangzhao Zhang, and Guangming Liu. Anion Specificity of Polyzwitterionic Brushes with Different Carbon Spacer Lengths and Its Application for Controlling Protein Adsorption. Langmuir, 2016, 32, 2698–2707.