Xudong Zhang

Education:
Tsinghua University                                                                                                                                                                       Beijing, China
M.S. in  Environmental Engineering                                                                                                                                                      June 2020
Shandong University                                                                                                                                                                       Jinan, China
B.S. in Environmental Engineering                                                                                                                                                        June 2017

Research:
Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                        2021-Present
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University
 
Graduate Teaching Assistant                                                                                                                                                             2018-2019
School of Environment, Tsinghua University

• Teaching assistant of courses including “Environment and economic development” and “Environmental protection and sustainable development”.

 
Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                            2017-2020
School of Environment, Tsinghua University

• Flow electrode desalination for heavy metal removal.
• Selective ion removal and recovery by CDI.
• Temperature gradient driven abnormal cation diffusion in electrical double layers.

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Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                  2015-2017
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University

• Fabrications of carbon-based sorbents for heavy metal removal.

Publications:

• X. Zhang#, K. Zuo#, X. Zhang, C. Zhang, P. Liang, Selective ion separation by capacitive deionization (CDI) based technologies: A state-of-the-art review, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2020, 6(2): 243-257. 
• X. Zhang, F. Yang, J. Ma, P. Liang, Effective removal and selective capture of copper from salty solution in flow electrode capacitive deionization, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2020, 6(2): 341-350.
• F. Yang, J. Ma, X. Zhang, X. Huang, P. Liang, Decreased charge transport distance by titanium mesh-membrane assembly for flow-electrode capacitive deionization with high desalination performance, Water Research, 2019, 164, 114904.  
• J. Ma, C. Zhang, F. Yang, X. Zhang, M, Suss, X. Huang, P. Liang, Carbon black flow-electrode enhanced electrochemical desalination using single cycle operation, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(2): 1177-1185. 
• Z. Guo, X. Zhang, Y. Kang, J. Zhang, Biomass-Derived Carbon Sorbents for Cd(II) Removal: Activation and Adsorption Mechanism, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 4103-4109. ​

Interests:
Tennis, badminton.