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Research Direction: Dynamic Interface Characteristics and Laws at Micro-Scale
E-mail:kaiwang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Professor WANG Kai received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Tsinghua University in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was engaged in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2012, and promoted to a tenured associate professor in 2023. From 2015 to 2016 he worked as a visiting scholar research at MIT. His main research fields are microreactors, artificial intelligence, and flow electrochemical synthesis technology, which focus on intelligent research on the basic scientific principles of microscale transfer, reaction, and electrochemical processes, as well as practice the industrial application of microreaction technology. As the first contributor, he has won the first prize for basic research achievements of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and as a main contributor, he has won two National Science and Technology Awards including the second prize for national technological invention and the second prize for scientific and technological progress. He is one of the editorial board members of the Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering and one of the youth editorial board members of the journal of Partiology. His is the deputy secretary-general of the Microchemical Engineering Committee and a member of the Youth Committee of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China. He has been selected as a National Young Talent, awarded the "Future Scholar" by the Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers, and engaged in the Hou Debang Youth Science and Technology Award of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China.

Education & Professional Career

2001~2005 B.Sc, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2005~2010 Ph.D, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2010~2012 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2012~2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2015~2016 Visiting scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT

2014~present Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Research interest

1. Dynamic Interface Characteristics and Laws at Micro-Scale

2. Flow Chemistry and Microreaction Organic Electrosynthesis

3. Micro-Chemical Engineering System and AI

Selected publications

1. Zhang S, Li H, Wang K*, Qiu T*. Accelerating intelligent microfluidic image processing with transfer deep learning: A microchannel droplet/bubble breakup case study. Sep Purif Technol. 2023; 315: 123703.

2. Liu X, Zheng S, Wang K*. Influence of bubble generation on the microchannel electrochemical gas evolution reaction. Chem Eng J. 2023; 463: 142453.

3. Liang X, Li M, Wang K*, Luo G. Determination of time-evolving interfacial tension and ionic surfactant adsorption kinetics in microfluidic droplet formation process. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022; 617: 106-117.

4. Liang X, Zhang J, Li M, Wang K*, Luo G. Dynamic interfacial tension and adsorption kinetics of nonionic surfactants during microfluidic droplet formation process. Chem Eng J. 2022; 445: 136658.

5. Zhang S, Qin K, Huang X, Wei Y, Wang T, Wang K*, Qiu T*. Insight into microdispersion flows with a novel video deep learning method. Adv Intell Syst. 2022: 2200098.

6. Liu D, Yan J, Wang K*, Wang Y*, Luo G. Continuous synthesis of ultrasmall core-shell upconversion nanoparticles via a flow chemistry method. Nano Res. 2022; 15(2): 1199-1204.

7. Zheng S, Wang K*, Luo G. Microfluidic electrosynthesis of thiuram disulfides. Green Chem. 2021; 23(1): 582-591.

8. Zheng S, Yan J, Wang K*. Engineering research progress of electrochemical microreaction technology-a novel method for electrosynthesis of organic chemicals. Engineering. 2021; 7(1): 22-32.

9. Sui J, Yan J, Liu D, Wang K*, Luo G*. Continuous synthesis of nanocrystals via flow chemistry technology. Small. 2020; 16: 1902828.

10. Sui J, Yan J, Wang K*, Luo G. Efficient synthesis of lithium rare-earth tetrafluoride nanocrystals via a continuous flow method. Nano Res. 2020; 13(10): 2837-2846.

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