Dr. Huacheng Zhang
Details
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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huacheng.zhang@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0001-5464-2947
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Huacheng Zhang is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and an Associate Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at RMIT University. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in July 2014. Then she worked as an assistant professor at TIPCAS, a postdoctoral research fellow, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University. Since joining RMIT in July 2020, she has received the 2020 RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, the 2020 ARC Future Fellowship, the 2021 RMIT VC Award for Research Excellence-ECR, the 2022 MSA Membrane Science Award, the 2023 J&J WiSTEM2D Scholars Award, and the 2024 NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership 2).
Dr Zhang currently leads a research group at RMIT and focuses on bioinspired sub-nanofluidic membranes for efficient separation, controlled release, biosensing, energy harvesting, and stimuli-responsive ion adsorbents for water desalination and ion extraction. She has published 70+ journal papers, including Nat. Mater., Sci. Adv., Nat. Sustain., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc. Her work has received 7000+ citations with an H-index of 42.
Research fields
- 340109 Separation science
- 400409 Separation technologies
- 401807 Nanomaterials
- 401605 Functional materials
- 3209 Neurosciences
UN sustainable development goals
- 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Academic positions
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2023 – Present
- Senior Lectuturer
- RMIT University
- Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 29 Jul 2020 – 31 Dec 2022
- ARC DECRA Fellow
- Monash University
- Chemical Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2017 – 30 Jun 2020
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Monash University
- Chemical Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 27 Jul 2015 – 31 Dec 2016
Supervisor projects
- Development of ammonium-selective membranes to recover ammonium from wastewater
- 8 Apr 2025
- Subnanofluidic membranes for lithium extraction
- 25 Feb 2025
- Artificial divalent metal ion channels
- 5 Aug 2024
- Metal-Organic Framework Based Ion-Selective Membranes for Energy Conversion and Storage
- 22 Mar 2024
- Bioinspired ion transporters for efficient energy conversion and storage
- 6 Mar 2024
- Bioinspired ion transporters for efficient energy conversion and storage
- 9 Feb 2024
- Engineering Polymer-Graphene composite for 3D printing
- 27 Nov 2023
- Photonic Crystal Sensors for Intelligent Packaging
- 23 Nov 2023
- Design and Investigation of Stable Polyelectrolyte Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Applications.
- 18 Jan 2023
- Bioinspired single-cation selective sub-nanochannels
- 25 Mar 2021
Teaching interests
PROC 2084 Engineering Experimental Investigations (2021-present)
OENG 1167/8 Engineering Capstone Project Part A/B (2021-present)
OENG 1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice (2022-2024)
PROC 2082 Heat and Mass Transfer (2021)
PROC 2076 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design (2020)
Research interests
Nanotechnology, Materials Engineering, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, Ion Channels, Membranes, Lithium Extraction, Ion Sieving, Water Desalination, Waste Water Treatment
