Professor WANG Tao received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He joined the Department in 1994. Prior to that he worked at Laboratory of Process Equipment, Delft University of Technology as a postdoctoral research fellow. During 1998 to 2000, he was a visiting scholar in Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology, Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests specializes in the field of Supercritical Fluids, Ionic Liquids, Green Chemical Processes and Products, Nanostructured Materials and Materials for Printed and Flexible Electronics. His research works are focused on the following aspects: 1) Supercritical fluid extraction, reaction and drying; 2) Functionalized ionic liquids; 3) Carbonates from CO2; 4) Aerogels and Hybrid Phase Change Materials; 5) Copper-based nanoparticles and nanowires; 6) Copper-based conductive inks, conductive adhesives and transparent conductive films. He teaches “Advanced Transport Phenomena” to the graduate students.

1. Qianqian Pan, Qing Liu, Yuling Shi, Danlong Yang, Yangeng Lan, Tao Wang, A facile strategy for freeze-drying preparation of silica aerogel from sodium silicate, Ceramics International, 2025, 51(4), 5342-5350

2. Danlong Yang, Yingzhe Liu, Yuling Shi, Qianqian Pan, Yangeng Lan, Jianhong Xu, Tao Wang, Efficient Fabrication of Well-Shaped and Monodisperse Silica Aerogel Microspheres by Microfluidics and Rapid Ambient Pressure Drying, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024, 63, 48, 20925-20936

3. Qing Liu, Yangeng Lan, Hongbin Shi, Yuling Shi, Qianqian Pan, Danlong Yang, Tao Wang, Cu-Ni bimetallic nanowires with various structures originated from Ni reduction kinetics，Nano Letters, 2024, 24, 38, 11992-11999

4. Yabing Zhang, Xiaofeng Dai, Hongbin Shi, Tao Wang, Highly conductive flexible printed patterns based on magnetic core-shell copper-coated-nickel nanoparticles catalyzing dimethylamine borane electroless plating copper, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2025, 61, 106128

5. Yuling Shi, Qing Liu, Qianqian Pan, Danlong Yang, Yangeng Lan, Tao Wang, Adsorption of Cu Nanoparticles on Polystyrene-Based Microspheres, Langmuir, 2024, 40, 25, 13134-13143

6. Yuling Shi, Qing Liu, Qianqian Pan, Danlong Yang, Tao Wang, Fabrication of PS-DVB@Cu core-shell microsphere for anisotropic conductive adhesives by electroless plating with copper nanoparticles as seeds, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 683(2024),133037

7. Qing Liu, Yibo Wu, Yong Li, Yuling Shi, Qianqian Pan, Danlong Yang, Tao Wang, Novel facile synthesis and room-temperature sintering of copper nanowires for solution-processed transparent conductive films, Chemical Engineering Journal, 472 (2023), 145030

8. Qing Liu, Danlong Yang, Yuling Shi, Qianqian Pan, Tao Wang，Shape-selective separation of copper nanowires and copper-based nanoparticles by a ligand exchange strategy, Applied Surface Science, 2023, 611, 155597

9. Hongbin Shi, Qing Liu, Xiaofeng Dai, Teng Zhang, Yuling Shi, Tao Wang, Magnetic graphene oxide-anchored Ni/Cu nanoparticles with a Cu-rich surface for transfer hydrogenation of nitroaromatics, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022, 50, 235-246

10. Yabing Zhang, Yiru Xu, and Tao Wang, Green Formaldehyde-Free Electroless Plating Mechanism, Kinetics, and Sustainable Bath Recycling for Conductive Copper Patterns, Langmuir 2025, 41, 6621−663

11. Yabing Zhang, Teng Zhang, Hongbin Shi, Qing Liu, Yuling Shi, Tao Wang, Electroless Plating Cycle Process for High-Conductivity Flexible Printed Circuits, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2021, 9, 11991 - 12004

12. Hongbin Shi, Xiaofeng Dai, Qing Liu, Teng Zhang, Yabing Zhang, Yuling Shi, and Tao Wang, Magnetic CuNi Alloy Nanoparticles for Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitroarene，Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2021，60( 44)，16011-16022

13. Yabing Zhang, Teng Zhang, Hongbin Shi, Qing Liu, Tao Wang, Fabrication of flexible copper patterns by electroless plating with copper nanoparticles as seeds, Applied Surface Science, 547(2021), 149220

14. Teng Zhang, Hongbin Shi, Yabing Zhang, Qing Liu, Weiyang Fei, Tao Wang, Hollow Flower-like Nickel Particles as the Promoter of Ammonium Perchlorate-based Solid Propellant，Applied Surface Science, 552(2021), 149506

15. Xiaofeng Dai, Teng Zhang, Hongbin Shi, Yabing Zhang, Tao Wang，Reactive Sintering of Cu Nanoparticles at Ambient Conditions for Printed Electronics，ACS Omega, 5 (22), 13416-13423, 2020

16. Xiaofeng Dai, Wen Xu, Teng Zhang, Hongbin Shi, Tao Wang, Room temperature sintering of Cu-Ag core-shell nanoparticles conductive inks for printed electronics, Chemical Engineering Journal, 364(2019), 310-319

17. Wen Xu, Xiaofeng Dai, Teng Zhang, Tao Wang, Dual effects of water on the performance of copper complex conductive inks for printed electronics, Chemical Engineering Science, 190 (2018), 40-47

18. Kang Qin, Kai Wang, Rui Luo, Yang Li, Tao Wang, Dispersion of supercritical carbon dioxide to [Emim][BF4] with a T-junction microtube connector, Chemical Engineering and Processing, 127(2018), 58-64

19. Xiaofeng Dai, Wen Xu, Teng Zhang, and Tao Wang, Self-Reducible Cu Nanoparticles for Conductive Inks, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57(7), 2508-2516

20. Wen Xu, Tao Wang, Synergetic effect of blended alkylamines for copper complex ink to form conductive copper film, Langmuir, 2017, 33(1), 82-90

21. Yuping Wu, Tao Wang, Enthalpy of Solid−Liquid Phase Change Confined in Porous Materials, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2016, 55 (44), pp 11536-11541

22. Kang Qin, Kai Wang, Rui Luo, Yang Li, Tao Wang, Interfacial tension and wetting properties of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate in carbon dioxide, from atmospheric pressure to supercritical state, J. of Supercritical Fluids, 116 (2016) 83-89

23. Yuping Wu, Tao Wang, Hydrated salts/expanded graphite composite with high thermal conductivity as a shape-stabilized phase change material for thermal energy storage, Energy Conversion and Management, 2015, 101, 164-171

24. Yuping Wu, Tao Wang, Preparation and characterization of hydrated salts/silica composite as shape-stabilized phase change material via sol-gel process, Thermochimica Acta, 591, 10-15, 2014

25. Qiang Guo, Tao Wang，Influence of SiO2 pore structure on phase change enthalpy of shape-stabilized polyethylene glycol/silica composites, J. Mater Sci. (2013) 48:3716-3721

26. Jiabo Li, Tao Wang，Chemical equilibrium of glycerol carbonate synthesis from glycerol，J. Chem. Thermodynamics 43 (2011) 731-736

27. Jiabo Li, Tao Wang，Coupling reaction and azeotropic distillation for synthesis of glycerol carbonate from glycerol and dimethyl carbonate, Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification, 49 (2010), pp. 530-535

28. Ting Li, Tao Wang，Preparation of silica aerogel from rice hull ash by drying at atmospheric pressure, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 112 (2008) 398-401

29. Huabin Xing, Tao Wang, Zhenhuan Zhou, Youyuan Dai, The sulfonic acid-functionalized ionic liquids with pyridinium cations: Acidities and their acidity-catalytic activity relationships, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical 264 (2007) 53-59

30. Tao Wang, Qi Tang, Preparation of silica aerogel from rice hull ash by supercritical carbon dioxide drying, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Vol 35/1 pp 91-94, 2005

31. HB Xing, T Wang, ZH Zhou, YY Dai, Novel bronsted-acidic ionic liquids for esterifications, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44 (11): 4147-4150, 2005

32. T Wang, YF Guan, Extraction of arsenic-containing anions by supercritical CO2 with ion-pairing, Chemical Engineering Journal, 108 (1-2), 145-153, 2005

33. Tao Wang, Qi Tang, Preparation of silica aerogel from rice hull ash by supercritical carbon dioxide drying, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 35(1), 91-94, 2005

1. Tao Wang，Qianqian Pan，A kind of hydrophobic silica aerogel and its preparation，CN2025102031360

2. Tao Wang, Yabing Zhang, A method of preparing flexible printed circuits using Cu-Ni composite nanoparticles, CN2021114830690

3. Tao Wang, Xiaofeng Dai, A method of room temperature sintering of shell-core Cu@Ag nanoparticles ink for conductive patterns,CN201811028936.X

4. Tao Wang, Xiaofeng Dai, A method of preparing shell-core Cu@Ag nanoparticle, CN 201611072652.1

5. Tao Wang, Qiang Guo, The method of preparing sodium sulfate/silica shape-fixed phase change material from rice hull ash, CN 200910236014.2

6. Tao Wang, Ting Li, Preparation of hydrophobic aerogel from rice hull ash, CN 200510012186.3

7. Tao Wang, Ting Li, Preparation of aerogel from rice hull ash by atmospheric drying, CN 200510011378.2

8. Tao Wang, Qi Tang, The method of preparing silica aerogel from rice hull ash, CN 03127920.1