Biographic Information
Peng Tao is a professor in the State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2012. He worked as a post-doctoral materials research scientist in Dow Corning Corporation for 1 year. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2014 as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 2023.
Research Interests
Thermal storage materials; Bioinspired thermal functional materials; Thermal conversion and management materials
Selected Publications
1. S An, B Shi, M Jiang, B Fu, C Song, P Tao*, W Shang*, T Deng*. Biological and bioinspired thermal energy regulation and utilization, Chemical Reviews, 2023, 123, 11, 7081–7118.
2. X Li, Y Liu, Y Xu, P Tao*, T Deng*. Solid–liquid phase change composite Materials for direct solar–thermal energy harvesting and storage, Accounts of Materials Research, 2023, 4, 6, 484–495.
3. X Li, J Zhang, Y Liu, Y Xu, K Cui, Z Yao, B Fu, C Song, W Shang, P Tao*, T Deng*. Supercooled sugar alcohols stabilized by alkali hydroxides for long-term room-temperature phase change solar-thermal energy storage, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 452, 139328.
4. Y Xu, J Xu, J Zhang, X Li, B Fu, C Song, W Shang, P Tao*, T Deng*. All-in-one polymer sponge composite 3D evaporators for simultaneous high-flux solar-thermal desalination and electricity generation, Nano Energy 2022, 93, 106882.
5. J Zhang, L Shu, C Chang, X Li, R Lin, B Fu, C Song, W Shang, P Tao, T Deng*. Crumpled particles of ethanol-wetted graphene oxide for medium-temperature nanofluidic solar-thermal energy harvesting, Carbon, 2022, 186, 492-500.
6. C Chang, X Nie, X Li, P Tao*, B Fu, Z Wang, J Xu, Q Ye, J Zhang, C Song*, W Shan, T Deng*. Bioinspired roll-to-roll solar-thermal energy harvesting within form-stable flexible composite phase change materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 8 (40), 20970-20978.
7. J Xu, Z Wang, C Chang, B Fu, P Tao*, C Song, W Shang, T Deng*. Solar-driven interfacial desalination for simultaneous freshwater and salt generation, Desalination 2020, 484, 114423.
8. P Tao*, C Chang, Z Tong, H Bao, C Song, J Wu, W Shang, T Deng*. Magnetically-accelerated large-capacity solar-thermal energy storage within high-temperature phase-change materials, Energy & Environmental Science 2019, 12 (5), 1613-1621.
9. P Tao, G Ni, C Song, W Shang, J Wu, J Zhu*, G Chen*, T Deng*. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation, Nature Energy 2018, 3 (12), 1031-1041.
10. Z Wang, Z Tong, Q Ye, H Hu, X Nie, C Yan, W Shang, C Song, J Wu, J Wang, H Bao*, P Tao*, T Deng*. Dynamic tuning of optical absorbers for accelerated solar-thermal energy storage, Nature Communications 2017, 8 (1), 1478.
Research Projects
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key R&D Project from Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Honors & Awards
Top Yong Talents of Ten Thousand Talents Plan (2022)
Shanghai Rising Star Program (2018)
Shanghai Chenguang Program (2015)