Advised by Professor Vijay Ramani, Zhongyang earned his doctorate degree from the Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering department at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2019. In his research, he focused on understanding and improving the alkaline stability of anion exchange membranes with applications in flow batteries, alkaline membrane fuel cells, and direct borohydride fuel cells. Zhongyang joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago in November of 2019 under the supervision of Professor Patel and Professor Nealey.
Zhongyang's current research focuses on understanding phase behavior and electronic transport in semicrystalline conjugated polymers.
Role of Crosslinking and Backbone Segmental Dynamics on Ion Transport in Hydrated Anion-Conducting Polyelectrolytes
Zhongyang Wang, Kai Wang, Christopher Eom, Yuxi Chen, Ge Sun, Mincheol Kim, Joan M Montes de Oca, Dongyue Liang, Kushal Bagchi, Shrayesh N Patel, Juan J de Pablo, Paul F Nealey, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025
IEC-Independent Coupling between Water Uptake and Ionic Conductivity in Anion-Conducting Polymer Films
Joan M Montes de Oca, Ruilin Dong, Gervasio Zaldivar, Ge Sun, Zhongyang Wang, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Juan J de Pablo, Macromolecules, 2025
Ion Transport in 2D Nanostructured π-Conjugated Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Liquid Crystal
Zhongyang Wang, Chaoqiuyu Wang, Yangyang Sun, Kai Wang, Joseph W Strzalka, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Christopher K Ober, Fernando A Escobedo. ACS Nano 2022, 16, 12, 20714–20729