Team
Dan ZHAO
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Dr. Zhao obtained his PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Hong-Cai Joe Zhou at Texas A&M University in 2010. After finishing his postdoctoral training at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore in July 2012 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2018. His research interests include advanced porous materials and membranes with the applications in clean energy and environmental sustainability.
- PhD (Inorganic Chemistry) Texas A&M University, USA, 2010
- MS (Polymer Chemistry and Physics) Zhejiang University, China, 2006
- BS (Polymer Materials and Engineering) Zhejiang University, China, 2003
2019 Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field)
2018 Young Researcher Award, NUS
2017 Engineering Young Researcher Award, NUS
2017 Outstanding Youth Award, GCCES
2017 Outstanding Young Faculty Award, AIChE Singapore Local Section
- Metal-Organic Frameworks
- Covalent Organic Frameworks
- Membrane Science and Technology
- Separation Engineering
- CO2 Capture
- Ying, Y. P.; Tong, M. M.; Ning, S. C.; Ravi, S. K.; Peh, S. B.; Tan, S. C.; Pennycook, S. J.; Zhao, D.* Ultrathin two-dimensional membranes assembled by ionic covalent organic nanosheets with reduced apertures for gas separation. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 4472-4480.
- Peh, S. B.; Wang, Y. X.; Zhao, D.* Scalable and sustainable synthesis of advanced porous materials. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2019, 7, 3647-3670.
- Hu, Z. G.*; Wang, Y. X.; Shah, B. B.; Zhao, D.* CO2 capture in metal-organic framework adsorbents: an engineering perspective. Sustainable Syst. 2019, 3, 1800080.
- Hu, Z. G.; Wang, Y. X.; Farooq, S.; Zhao, D.* A highly stable metal-organic framework with optimum aperture size for CO2 AIChE J. 2017, 63, 4103-4114.
- Wang, X. R.; Chi, C. L.; Zhang, K.; Qian, Y. H.; Gupta, K. M.; Kang, Z. X.; Jiang, J. W.; Zhao, D.* Reversed thermo-switchable molecular sieving membranes composed of two-dimensional metal-organic nanosheets for gas separation. Commun. 2017, 8, 14460.