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# SUN Zhi
  • Title:
    Professor
  • Subject:
    Metal recycling
  • Email:
    sunzhi@ipe.ac.cn
  • Address:
    No. 1, BeiErJie, ZhongGuanCun, Haidian District, Beijing
Resume

Dr. Zhi Sun is a technical senior expert for critical raw materials recycling and cleaner production. He is corresponding author & co-author in 150 research papers, 5 books, 7 book chapters. He has lead more than 40 R&D funded projects, with 10 scientific and technological awards. He holds around 50 patents and has been working closely with industrial partners with a number of technologies being used. He is the vice director of Spent Battery Recycling Standardization Working Group under SAC/TC297/SC4, as well as both members of China Solid State Lighting Alliance Standardization Committee and China Standardization Committee (TC294). He is currently serving as Associate Editor for Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy. His research interests include: WEEE and spent battery recycling, criticality analyses of metal supply and cleaner production of critical raw materials.

Publications

1. Lv, W., Z. Wang, X. Zheng, H. Cao, M. He, Y. Zhang, H. Yu, and Z. Sun, Selective Recovery of Lithium from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries by Coupling Advanced Oxidation Processes and Chemical Leaching Processes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020. 8(13): 5165-5174.

2. Meng, X., Y. Xu, H. Cao, X. Lin, P. Ning, Y. Zhang, Y.G. Garcia, and Z. Sun, Internal failure of anode materials for lithium batteries - A critical review. Green Energy & Environment, 2020. 5(1): 22-36.

3. Wei, X., C. Liu, H. Cao, P. Ning, W. Jin, Z. Yang, H. Wang, and Z. Sun, Understanding the features of PGMs in spent ternary automobile catalysts for development of cleaner recovery technology. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019. 239.

4. Yang, Y., H. Yang, H. Cao, Z. Wang, C. Liu, Y. Sun, H. Zhao, Y. Zhang, and Z. Sun, Direct preparation of efficient catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction and high-purity Li2CO3 from spent LiNi0.5Mn0.3Co0.2O2 batteries. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019. 236.

5. Akcil, A., Z. Sun, and S. Panda, COVID-19 disruptions to tech-metals supply are a wake-up call Comment. Nature, 2020. 587(7834): 365-367.

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