Engineer Medical

Zhengcheng Zhang

Argonne National Laboratory

Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division

**** ***** **** ******, ****. 205

Argonne, IL 60439-4837

phone: 630/252-7868, fax: 630/972-4440

e-mail: ******@***.***

Professional Experience

December 2007-Present

Chemist, Technology Development Group, Electrochemical Energy Storage

Theme, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National

Laboratory

June 2005-Novermber 2007

Battery Engineer, Research & Development Department, Quallion, LLC, Sylmar

Medical Research Park, California

April 2003-June 2005

Assistant Scientist, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Madison, Wisconsin

August 2000-April 2003

Research Associate, Organosilicon Research Center (OSiRC), the University

Campus, Madison, Wisconsin

Education

Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy

of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2000

M.S., Organic Chemistry, Applied Chemistry Division, Xi an Modern Chemistry

Research Institute, China, 1997

Awards

2005 R&D 100 Award project participator (2000-2005)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Young Academic Seminar, First Prize Award

(1998)

Research grant recipient from Department of Science and Technology, People s

Republic of China (1995-1997)

2nd Youth English Seminar on Science and Technology, Xi an, China (1996)

Career Activities & Highlights

Development of safe and stable electrolytes including siloxanes, silanes,

sulfones, fluorinated ether/esters, ionic liquids for electrochemical cells such as

lithium battery, super-capacitor and lithium air battery

Synthesis and evaluation of new molecules with tunable oxidation potentials as

redox shuttles for overcharge protection for lithium battery with 4.2V cathode

materials

Design, synthesis and evaluation of new electrolyte additives for lithium ion

battery with long cycle life and safety

Synthesis and investigation of novel lithium complexes as electrolyte salts with

multiple functionalities

Developed functional tetrasiloxane, trisiloxane, disiloxanes and silanes as new

generation electrolytes for lithium polymer battery as power for implantable

medical devices

Designed three novel network-type cross-linked polymer electrolytes for all-solid-

state lithium polymer battery

Synthesized novel gel polymer electrolytes with internal plasticizing chains for

Li/CFx primary cell for low temperature application (-40 C)

Developed porous polysiloxane/PVdF-HFP composite polymer membrane

technology by extrusion technique that improved the ease in manufacturing of

polymer batteries for the Army s Objective Force Soldier Program

Mechanical strength enhancement of RTV polysiloxane rubber via

interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) technique

Reviewers of journals including Macromolecules, Journal of Applied Polymer

Science, Silicon Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Power Sources,

Journal of Electrochemical Society, Electrochimica Acta

Active member of the Electrochemical Society, the American Chemical Society

and the Material Research Society

Publications and Patents

Publications: 41

Patents, Patent Applications & Inventions: 24

Presentations (invited talks, oral presentations and posters): 18

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