AWDr Anqi Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at KAUST.  He received his BEng degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2016, and received MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Distinction in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He was awarded the Department PhD scholarship and completed PhD research under the spervision of Dr Qilei Song in 2021. He stayed in the group for postdoc research from August 2021 to September 2024.  His PhD and Postdoc research was focused on the design and synthesis of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for battery energy storage, funded by the ERC Starting Grant and EPSRC Programme Grant SynHiSel.  From September 2024, Dr Wang has joined the KAUST as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry in the Physical Science and Engineering Division. He is an academic visitor in the group. 

Email: anqi.wang16@imperial.ac.uk 

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Selected Publications:

Anqi Wang*, Charlotte Breakwell, Fabrizia Foglia, Rui Tan, Louie Lovell, Xiaochu Wei, Toby Wong, Naiqi Meng, Haodong Li, Andrew Seel, Mona Sarter, Keenan Smith, Alberto Alvarez Fernandez, Mate Furedi, Stefan Guldin, Melanie Britton, Neil McKeown, Kim Jelfs, Qilei Song*. Selective ion transport through hydrated micropores in polymer membranes. Nature, 635, 353–358 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08140-2; Press release by Imperial College. 

Rui Tan+, Anqi Wang+, Richard Malpass-Evans, Rhodri Williams, Evan Wenbo Zhao, Tao Liu, Chunchun Ye, Xiaoqun Zhou, Barbara Primera Darwich, Zhiyu Fan, Lukas Turcani, Edward Jackson, Linjiang Chen, Samantha Y. Chong, Tao Li, Kim E. Jelfs, Andrew I. Cooper, Nigel P. Brandon, Clare P. Grey, Neil B. McKeown*, and Qilei Song*. Hydrophilic microporous membranes for selective ion separation and flow-battery energy storage. Nature Materials, 19, 195–202(2020). doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0536-8. (+contributed equally).

Evan Wenbo Zhao, Tao Liu, Erlendur Jónsson, Jeongjae Lee, Israel Temprano, Rajesh B. Jethwa, Anqi Wang, Holly Smith, Javier Carretero-González, Qilei Song, Clare P. Grey*. In situ NMR metrology reveals reaction mechanisms in redox flow batteries. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2081-7

Peipei Zuo, Yuanyuan Li, Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Yahua Liu, Xian Liang, Fangmeng Sheng, Gonggeng Tang, Liang Ge, Liang Wu, Qilei Song*, Neil B McKeown*, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Sulfonated microporous polymer membranes with fast and selective ion transport for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2020, 59, 9564.  https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000012

Chunchun Ye+, Anqi Wang+, Charlotte Breakwell, Rui Tan, C. Grazia Bezzu, Elwin Hunter-Sellars, Daryl R. Williams, Nigel P. Brandon, Peter A. A. Klusener, Anthony R. Kucernak, Kim E. Jelfs, Neil B. McKeown* & Qilei Song*. Development of efficient aqueous organic redox flow batteries using ion-sieving sulfonated polymer membranes. Nature Communications, 13, Article number: 3184 (2022). (+contributed equally)

C. Ye+, R. Tan+, A. Wang+, J. Chen, B. Comesaña Gándara, C. Breakwell, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, Z. Fan, J. Weng, C. G. Bezzu, S. Guldin, N. P. Brandon, A. R. Kucernak, K. E. Jelfs, N. B. McKeown*, Q. Song*, Long-Life Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries Enabled by Amidoxime-Functionalized Ion-Selective Polymer Membranes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202207580; Angew. Chem. 2022, 134, e202207580. (+contributed equally)

Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Charlotte Breakwell, Xiaochu Wei, Zhiyu Fan, Chunchun Ye, Richard Malpass-Evans, Tao Liu, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Kim E. Jelfs, Neil B. McKeown*, Jun Chen, and Qilei Song*. Solution-Processable Redox-Active Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity for Electrochemical Energy Storage. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022 144 (37), 17198-17208.

Anqi Wang, Rui Tan, Dezhi Liu, Jiaxin Lu, Xiaochu Wei, Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez, Chunchun Ye, Charlotte Breakwell, Stefan Guldin, Anthony R. Kucernak, Kim E. Jelfs, Nigel P. Brandon, Neil B. McKeown and Qilei Song*. Ion-selective Microporous Polymer Membranes with Hydrogen-bond and Salt-bridge Networks for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2023, 2210098. Link to full paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210098

Yuhua Xia, Mengzheng Ouyang, Vladimir Yufit, Rui Tan, Anna Regoutz, Anqi Wang, Wenjie Mao, Barun Chakrabarti, Ashkan Kavei, Qilei Song, Anthony R. Kucernak & Nigel P. Brandon. A cost-effective alkaline polysulfide-air redox flow battery enabled by a dual-membrane cell architecture. Nature Communications, 13, 2388, 2022.

Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, Wan-Ni Wu, Taliehsadat Alebrahim, Yiming Cao, Benny D Freeman, Daniel Harrigan, Mayank Jhalaria, Adam Kratochvil, Sanat Kumar, Won Hee Lee, Young Moo Lee, Haiqing Lin, Julian M Richardson, Qilei Song, Benjamin Sundell, Raymond Thür, Ivo Vankelecom, Anqi Wang, Lina Wang, Catherine Wiscount, Zachary P Smith. Multi-lab study on the pure-gas permeation of commercial polysulfone (PSf) membranes: Measurement standards and best practices. Journal of Membrane Science. 659, 2022, 120746.

Awards

  • 2020 Best Oral Presentation. International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes
  • 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Energy Sector PhD Thesis Award
  • 2021 Julia Higgins Centenary Prize for Best PhD thesis,  Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
  • 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry Material Chemistry Horizon Prize
  • 2023 Future Faculty award from the American Chemical Society
  • 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 Europe