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Difan Zhang

Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

901 D Street

370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.

Washington, DC 20024-2115

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

DOWNLOADS

190

TOTAL CITATIONS

2

Scholarly Papers (6)

1.

Protonation Dynamics of Confined Ethanol–Water Mixtures in H-ZSM-5 from Machine Learning-Driven Metadynamics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Oct 2025
RWTH Aachen University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, United States Military Academy, West Point - Department of Chemical and Biological Science and Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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protonation equilibrium, molecular dynamics, metadynamics, machine learning potentials

2.

Diethylenetriamine-Functionalized Graphene Oxide: Insights into Ion Adsorption and Applications in Rare Earth Element Separation

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Sep 2025
Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Newcastle, University of Texas at El Paso, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Graphene oxide, adsorbent, membrane, amine, rare earth element, separation, adsorption, permeation

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Tunable Cation Coordination by Polyoxometalates for Heavy Metal Separation and Critical Mineral Recovery at Redox Electrochemical Interfaces

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Jul 2025
Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Polyoxometalate, Metal Ion Coordination, electrochemical separation, Redox-Active Materials, Heavy Metal Removal, Critical Mineral Recovery

4.

Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole Membrane with Graphene Oxide Additive for 2,3-Butanediol/Water Separation: A Molecular Simulation

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Jul 2024
Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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2, 3-butanediol, polybenzimidazole, Graphene oxide, Molecular dynamics, Separation

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Distinct Ion Transport Behavior between Graphene Oxide and Uv-Irradiated Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Apr 2024
Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Reduced graphene oxide, ultraviolet light, metal ion separation, ion transport mechanism, oxygen functional groups

6.

In situ molecular imaging of ion clusters reveals the acid gas capture capacity and mechanism of water-lean ionic liquids

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Feb 2026
Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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acid gas capture, water lean ionic liquid, cluster ions, solvent structural evolution, in situ liquid ToF-SIMS, molecular modeling