*indicates corresponding author

First-author and corresponding author publications:

1.      Li Wang, Jinlong He, Mohammad Heiranian, Hanqing Fan, Lianfa Song, Ying Li, and Menachem Elimelech*, Water transport in reverse osmosis membranes is governed by pore flow, not a solution-diffusion mechanism. Science Advances, 2023, 9, eadf8488.

2.      Yuhao Du, Li Wang*, Abdessamad Belgada, Saad Alami Younssi, Jack Gilron, Menachem Elimelech*, A mechanistic model for salt and water transport in leaky membranes: Implications for low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis membranes, Journal of Membrane Science, 2023, 678, 121642.

3.      Li Wang, Tianchi Cao, Kevin E. Pataroque, Masashi Kenada, P. Maarten Biesheuvel, and Menachemca Elimelech*, Significance of co-ion partitioning in salt transport through polyamide reverse osmosis membranes, Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57, 3930-3939.

4.      Li Wang, Tianchi Cao, P. Maarten Biesheuvel, Jouke E. Dykstra, Slawomir Porada, and Menachemca Elimelech*, Salt and water transport in reverse osmosis membranes: beyond the solution-diffusion model, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 16665-16675.

5.      Li Wang, Sohum K. Patel, and Menachem Elimelech*, Correlation equation for evaluating energy consumption and process performance in brackish water desalination by electrodialysis, Desalination, 2021, 510, 115089.

6.      Li Wang, Zhangxin Wang, Sohum K. Patel, Shihong Lin, and Menachem Elimelech*, Nanopore-Based Power Generation from Salinity Gradient: Why It Is Not Viable. ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 3, 4093-4107.

7.      Li Wang, Camille Violet, Ryan M. DuChanois, and Menachem Elimelech*, Derivation of the Theoretical Minimum Energy of Separation of Desalination Processes, Journal of Chemical Education. 2020, 97, 12, 4361-4369.

8.      Li Wang*, Yuanzhe Liang, and Li Zhang*, Enhancing performance of capacitive deionization with polyelectrolyte-infiltrated electrodes: theory and experimental validation, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54, 9, 5874-5883.

9.      Li Wang, Changyong Zhang, T. David Waite, and Shihong Lin*, Equivalent film-electrode model for flow-electrode capacitive deionization, Water Research, 2020, 181, 115917.

10.   Fei Gao, Li Wang (equally contributed), Jie Wang, Hongwei Zhang, and Shihong Lin*, Nutrient recovery from treated wastewater by a hybrid electrochemical sequence integrating bipolar membrane electrodialysis and membrane capacitive deionization, Environmental Science: Water Science & Technology, 2020, 6, 383-391.

11.   Li Wang, and Shihong Lin*, Mechanism of selective ion removal in membrane capacitive deionization for water softening, Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53, 5797-5804.

12.   Li Wang, and Shihong Lin*, Theoretical framework for designing a desalination plant based on membrane capacitive deionization, Water Research, 2019, 158, 359-369.

13.   Li Wang, Jouke Dykstra, and Shihong Lin*, Energy efficiency of capacitive deionziation, Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53, 3366-3378.

14.   Fei Ji, Li Wang (equally contributed), Shihong Lin*, and Zheng Chen*, Highly compact, free-standing porous electrodes from polymer-derived nanoporous carbons for efficient electrochemical capacitive deionization, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 7, 1768-1778.

15.   Li Wang, and Shihong Lin*, Membrane Capacitive deionization with constant current vs constant voltage charging: which is better? Environmental Science & Technology, 2018, 52, 4051-4060.

16.   Li Wang, and Shihong Lin*, Intrinsic tradeoff between kinetic and energetic efficiencies in membrane capacitive deionization, Water Research, 2018, 129, 394-401.

17.   Li Wang, P.M. Biesheuvel, and Shihong Lin*, Reversible thermodynamic cycle analysis for capacitive deionization with modified Donnan model, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2018, 512, 522-528.

18.   Li Wang*, Bill Batchelor, Suresh Pillai, and V.S.V. Botlaguduru, Electron Beam Treatment for Potable Water Reuse: Removal of Bromate and Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016, 302, 58-68.

Other publications:

1.      Cassandra J. Porter, Li Wang, Mingjiang Zhong, and Menachem Elimelech*, Tuning charge density in tethered electrolyte active-layer membranes for enhanced ion-ion selectivity, Journal of Membrane Science, 2023, 121214.

2.      Boreum Lee, Li Wang, Zhangxin Wang, Nathanial J. Cooper, Menachem Elimelech*, Directing the research agenda on water and energy technologies with process and economic analysis, Energy & Environmental Science, 2023, 16, 714-722.

3.      Yumeng Zhao, Meng Sun*, Yanxin Zhao, Li Wang, Dongwei Lu, and Jun Ma*, Electrified ceramic membrane acturates non-radical mediated peroxymonosulfate activation for highly efficient water decontamination, Water Research, 119140.

4.      Lea R. Winter, Nathanial J. Cooper, Boreum Lee, Sohum K. Patel, Li Wang, and Menachem Elimelech*, Mining nontraditional water sources for distributed hydrogen economy, Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56, 10577-10585

5.      Shuo Zhang, Tayler Hedtke, Li Wang, Xiaoxiong Wang, Tianchi Cao, Menachem Elimelech, and Jea-Hong Kim*, Engineered nanoconfinement for accelerating spontaneous Manganese-catalyzed degradataion of organic contaminants, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 16708-16715.

6.      Doug M. Davenport, Li Wang, Evyatar Shalusky, and Menachem Elimelech*, Design principles and challenges for bench-scale high-pressure Reverse Osmosis at 150 bar, Desalination, 2021, 517, 115237.

7.      Sohum K. Patel, Li Wang, and Menachem Elimelech*, Comment on “Techno-economic analysis of capacitive and intercalative water deionization” by Metzger, M. Besli, S. Kuppan, S. Hellstrom, S. Kim, E. Sebti, C. Subban, and J. Christensen, Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 2494-2498.

8.      Zhangxin Wang, Li Wang, and Menachem Elimelech*, Viability of Harvesting Salinity Gradient (Blue)Energy by Nanopore-Based Osmotic Power Generation, Engineering 2022, 9, 51-56.

9.      Changyong Zhang, Jinxing Ma, Lei Wu, Jingyi Su, Li Wang, Tianyu Li, and T. David Waite*, Flow electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI): recent developments, environmental applications, and future perspectives, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 4243-4267.

10.   Fei Gao, Li Wang, Hongwei Zhang, and Jie Wang*, Realtime and in-situ monitoring of membrane fouling with fiber-optic reflectance UV-vis spectrophotometry (FORUS), Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 2020, 4, 100058

11.   Yuanzhe Liang, Fei Gao, Li Wang, and Shihong Lin*, In-situ monitoring of polyelectrolytes adsorption kinetics by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy: application in fabricating nanofiltration membranes via layer-by-layer deposition, Journal of Membrane Science, 2020, 118747.

12.   Huixia Lu, Li Wang, Ryszard Wycisk, Peter N. Pintauro, and Shihong Lin*, Quantifying the kinetics-energetics performance tradeoff in bipolar membrane electrodialysis, Journal of Membrane Science, 2020, 612, 118279.