Yuepeng Zhang

Dr. Yuepeng Zhang is a principal materials scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She has a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from McMaster University in Canada. Yuepeng’s current research focuses on nanomaterials and membrane technology development for water and gas separation, critical mineral recovery and battery and fuel cell electrode and separator applications. Residing in Argonne’s Materials Engineering and Research Facility, Yuepeng’s team also devotes effort to process innovation and scale-up based on additive manufacturing and roll-to-roll processing, such as roll-to-roll electrospinning, electrospray, slot-die coating and screen-printing. Before joining Argonne, Yuepeng worked as a principal engineer for Western Digital Corp. in San Jose, California.  

Extracting Critical Materials From Gas and Oilfield Wastewaters

July 2, 2024
Argonne National Laboratory researchers are developing a separation process to enable more effective extraction of lithium from gas and oil field wastewaters.