Dr Teng Zhang

Lecturer

t.zhang@surrey.ac.uk

Academic and research departments

School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences.

About

Biography

Dr Teng Zhang is a lecturer in Automotive Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences. He obtained his PhD from National University of Singapore in 2014 on multi-scale modelling of organic solar cells. Before joining University of Surrey, he spent 3 years as a research associate at Imperial College London working on modelling and testing of high energy-density lithium-sulfur batteries for automotive applications. He contributed to several UK and EU projects in collaboration with industry, such as the 'REVB (Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Batteries)' and the 'ECLIPSE (Next-generation Battery Technology for Space Applications )' projects on lithium-sulfur batteries, and the 'ALICE (Advanced Lithium-Ion Capacitor Electrodes )' project on lithium-ion capacitors.

My qualifications

2014

PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

National University of Singapore

2010

BEng(Hons) Engineering Science

National University of Singapore

Research

Research interests

I'm interested in exploring strategies to improve the mechanistic understanding, system-level design, and control of energy storage systems through modelling and characterisation of the underlying electrochemistry and transport phenomena at different scales. My on-going research covers:

Multiscale modelling of lithium-sulfur batteries
Full & reduced-order models for Li-ion batteries
Solid-state batteries
Novel battery thermal management concepts

Research projects

Lithium-Sulfur Technology Accelerator (LiSTAR)

Co-lead for developing meso-scale Li-S electrode models (2019 -)

Royal Society Research Grant

Thermal modelling & characterisation of Li-S cells (2019-20)

Teaching

ENG2123 -Control (module lead)
ENG3205 - Automotive Energy Storage Systems (module lead)
ENG2093 - Numerical and Experimental Methods (2018)
ENGM268 - Advanced Powertrain Technologies (2019)

Publications

Highlights

Latest publications are updated on my Google scholars page: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=H9VcHggAAAAJ&hl=en

Xiao-Feng Zhang, Yan Zhao, Hong-Yan Liu, Teng Zhang, Wei-Ming Liu, Mu Chen, Yatish Patel, Gregory J Offer, Yue Yan, (2018) Degradation of thin-film lithium batteries characterised by improved potentiometric measurement of entropy change, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol 20.

Monica Marinescu, Laura O’Neill, Teng Zhang, Sylwia Walus, Timothy E Wilson, Gregory J Offer, (2018) Irreversible vs Reversible Capacity Fade of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries during Cycling: The Effects of Precipitation and Shuttle, The Electrochemical Society, Vol 165

T. Zhang, M. Marinescu, S. Walus, P. Kovacik, G. J. Offer, (2018) What Limits the Rate Capability of Li-S Batteries during Discharge: Charge Transfer or Mass Transfer? The Electrochemical Society, Vol 165.

I. Hunt, T. Zhang, Y. Patel, M. Marinescu, R. Purkayastha, P. Kovacik, S. Walus, A. Swiatek, G. J. Offer, (2018) The Effect of Current Inhomogeneity on the Performance and Degradation of Li-S Batteries, The Electrochemical Society, Vol 165.

Tom Cleaver, Peter Kovacik, Monica Marinescu, Teng Zhang, Gregory Offer, (2018) Perspective—Commercializing Lithium Sulfur Batteries: Are We Doing the Right Research? he Electrochemical Society, Vol 165.

Krishnakumar Gopalakrishnan, Teng Zhang, Gregory J Offer (2017) A Fast, Memory-Efficient Discrete-Time Realization Algorithm for Reduced-Order Li-Ion Battery Models, Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Vol 14.

Xiao-Feng Zhang, Yan Zhao, Yatish Patel, Teng Zhang, Wei-Ming Liu, Mu Chen, Gregory J Offer, Yue Yan (2017) Potentiometric measurement of entropy change for lithium batteries, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol 19.

Vaclav Knap, Teng Zhang, Daniel Ioan Stroe, Erik Schaltz, Remus Teodorescu, Karsten Propp (2017) Significance of the Capacity Recovery Effect in Pouch Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cells, ECS Transactions, Vol 74.

Teng Zhang, Monica Marinescu, Sylwia Walus, Gregory J Offer (2016) Modelling transport-limited discharge capacity of lithium-sulfur cells, Electrochimica Acta, Vol 219.

Monica Marinescu, Teng Zhang, Gregory J Offer, (2016) A zero dimensional model of lithium–sulfur batteries during charge and discharge, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol 18.

Teng Zhang, Monica Marinescu, Laura O'Neill, Mark Wild, Gregory Offer (2015) Modeling the voltage loss mechanisms in lithium-sulfur cells: the importance of electrolyte resistance and precipitation kinetics, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol 17.

M. Wild, L. O'Neill, T. Zhang, R. Purkayastha, G. Minton, M. Marinescu, G. J. Offer (2015) Lithium sulfur batteries, a mechanistic review, Energy & Environmental Science, Vol 8.

Ying Ting Set, Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Joachim Luther (2015) What parameters can be reliably deduced from the current-voltage characteristics of an organic bulk-heterojunction solar cell? Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 117.

Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Joachim Luther (2015) Relating morphological characteristics to the open-circuit voltage of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells, Applied Physics Express, Vol 8.

Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Joachim Luther, (2015) Closed-form expressions correlating exciton transport and interfacial charge carrier generation with the donor/acceptor morphology in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells, Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol 456.

Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Joachim Luther, (2014) Modeling the structure–property relations in pillar-structured organic donor/acceptor solar cells, Organic Electronics, Vol 15.

Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Joachim Luther, (2013) A spatially smoothed device model for organic bulk heterojunction solar cells, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 113.

Teng Zhang, Erik Birgersson, Krishnamoorthy Ananthanarayanan, Chian Haw Yong, LNSA Thummalakunta, Joachim Luther, (2012) Analysis of a device model for organic pseudo-bilayer solar cells, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 112.

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