Dr Zhang Yu-fei
Research Assistant Professor
- Y824-04
- +852 3400 2638
- yufei.zhang@polyu.edu.hk
ORCID IDResearch Overview
Our research focuses on fiber-based soft electronics and smart wearables, involving thermal and moisture managing electronic textiles, permeable electronic skin, biomimetic nanofibrous materials, and functional supramolecular polymers.
Research Interests
Achievements
- Chambroad Technology Award - Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Chambroad Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Excellent Academic Paper Award of “China Chemical Fiber Industry Association-Hengyi Foundation”
- Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai
- The 1st Best Oral Presentation at “The 9th International Symposium for High-Tech Fiber Engineering for Young Researcher: Advanced Materials for Fiber Engineering”
- Shortlisted Paper Award of “The 23rd Chen Weiji Paper Excellence Action Plan”
- The Best Oral Presenter at “YKD Symposium: The 14th International Symposium for Materials & Kansei in Textiles-Fashion”
- First Prize of Paper and Presentation Award at “The Third International Forum on Textiles for Graduate Students”
- Carbon nanofibrous adsorbents doped with aminated carbon nanotubes and their preparation method, ZL201610664022.7 (Authorized)
- A honeycomb-like nanofibrous material with high specific surface area and its preparation method, ZL202010446712.1 (Authorized)
- A honeycomb-like fibrous membrane with wetting gradient for medical and health protection and its preparation method, ZL202010446711.7 (Authorized)
- Yufei Zhang, Lei Wu, Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, andBin Ding*, Super hygroscopic nanofibrous membrane-based moisture pump for solar-driven indoor dehumidification, Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 3302.
- Yufei Zhang, Jingjing Fu, Yichun Ding, Aijaz Ahmed Babar, Xian Song, Fan Chen, Xinge Yu, and Zijian Zheng*, Thermal and moisture managing e-textiles enabled by Janus hierarchical gradient honeycombs, Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2311633. (Editor’s Choice)
- Yufei Zhang, Na Meng, Aijaz Ahmed Babar, Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding*, Multi-bioinspired and multistructural integrated patterned nanofibrous surface for spontaneous and efficient fog collection, Nano Letters, 2021, 21(18), 7806-7814.
- Yufei Zhang, Lei Wu, Aijaz Ahmed Babar, Xinglei Zhao, Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding*, Honeycomb-inspired robust hygroscopic nanofibrous cellular networks, Small Methods, 2021, 5(11), 2101011.
- Yufei Zhang, Na Meng, Aijaz Ahmed Babar, Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding*, Lizard-skin-inspired nanofibrous capillary network combined with a slippery surface for efficient fog collection, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13(30), 36587-36594.
- Yufei Zhang, Jiming Guan, Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding, Balsam-pear-skin-like porous polyacrylonitrile nanofibrous membranes grafted with polyethyleneimine for postcombustion CO2 capture, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9(46), 41087-41098.
- Yichun Ding#, Jinxing Jiang#, Yingsi Wu#, Yaokang Zhang#, Junhua Zhou#, Yufei Zhang# (co-first author), Qiyao Huang*, and Zijian Zheng*, Porous conductive textiles for wearable electronics, Chemical Reviews, 2024, 124, 1535-1648.
- Yuge Zhang#, Yufei Zhang# (co-first author), Xianfeng Wang*, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding, Ultrahigh metal–organic framework loading and flexible nanofibrous membranes for efficient CO2 capture with long-term, ultrastable recyclability, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(40), 34802-34810.
- Lei Wu#, Yufei Zhang# (co-first author), Hui Yu, Yongtang Jia, Xianfeng Wang*, and Bin Ding*, Self-assembly of polyethylene oxide and its composite nanofibrous membranes with cellular network structure, Composites Communications, 2021, 27, 100759.
- Qiuna Zhuang, Kuanming Yao, Chi Zhang, Xian Song, Jingkun Zhou, Yufei Zhang, Qiyao Huang, Yizhao Zhou, Xinge Yu*, and Zijian Zheng*, Permeable, three-dimensional integrated electronic skins with stretchable hybrid liquid metal solders, Nature Electronics, 2024, 7, 598-609.
