Dan

TSANG

曾超華

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Biography

Ir Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in China. Dan was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US and IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience, published more than 600 articles in the top 10% journals, and was selected as Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists and Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers in the academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment & Ecology. Dan’s team aspires to develop green technologies for long-term decarbonization and promote resource circularity and sustainable development. Dan also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (2023-2025), and Chairman of Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (2023&2024) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

Selected Publications

1. Zhang, Y.; Zhu, X.; Li, M.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, Y.; Du, X.; Banthia, N.; Mechtcherine, V.; Carstensen, J.V.; Monteiro, P.J.M.; Tsang, D.C.W.* 3D printing technology in concrete construction. Nat. Rev. Clean Technol., 2025, in press.

2. Cao, Y.; Zhang, Q.; Yu, I.K.M.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Revealing OH species in-situ generated on low-valence Cu sites for selective carbonyl oxidation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2024, 121, e2408770121.

3. Liu, K.; Zhu, X.; Zhang, Y.; Maboudian, R.; Alessi, D.S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Activating carbon and oxygen bonds for low-temperature thermal decomposition of spent lithium-ion battery cathode materials. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2025, in press.

4. Liu, K.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhu, X.; Maboudian, R.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Dissolution of spent lithium-ion battery cathode materials: Overlooked significance of aluminium impurities. Adv. Sci., 2025, in press.

5. Xu, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Parikh, S.J.; Graham, N.J.D.; Xu, X.; Cao, X.; Shaheen, S.M.; Rinklebe, J.; Ok, Y.S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Reducing environmental burden of electroplating wastewater treatment by ternary cooperation of zero-valence iron, manganese, and graphitic biochar. Commun. Mater., 2025, in press.

6. Zhang, X.; Xu, Z.; Sun, Y.; Mohanty, S.K.; Lei, H.; Khan, E.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Implications of pyrolytic gas dynamic evolution on dissolved black carbon formed during production of biochar from nitrogen-rich feedstock. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2025, 59, 2699–2710. [Journal Cover]

7. Xu, Z.; Ma, B.; Tang, Y.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Layer-to-tunnel manganese oxides transformation triggered by triggered by pyrogenic carbon and trace metals: Key role of reducing and oxidizing components cooperation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 2025, 388, 18-33.

8. Wang, L.; Nerella, V.N.; Li, D.; Zhang, Y.; Ma, B.; Zhang, J.; Zhu, X.; Yan, J.; Mechtcherine, V.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Biochar-augmented climate-positive 3D printable concrete. Commun. Mater., 2024, 5, 257.

9. Zhang, Y.; Xu, W.; Zhu, X.; Maboudian, R.; Ok, Y.S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Scaling biochar solutions for urban carbon dioxide removal. One Earth, 2024, 7, 1481-1486.

10. Liu, K.; Xu, Z.; Wang, M.; Alessi, D.S.; Tang, Y.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Mechanisms of thermal decomposition in spent lithium-ion battery cathode materials with carbon defects and oxygen vacancies. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58, 21362-21373. [Journal Cover]

11. Tang, Y.; Khan, E.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Waste nitrogen upcycling to amino acids during anaerobic fermentation on biochar: An active strategy for regulating metabolic reducing power. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58, 20060-20072.

12. Tian, W.; Tang, Y.; Ducey, T.F.; Khan, E.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Facilitating intracellular electron bifurcation by mediating flavin-based extracellular and transmembrane electron transfer: A novel role of pyrogenic carbon in dark fermentation for hydrogen production. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58, 17766-17776.

13. Zhang, Q.; Cao, Y.; Xu, Z.; Lei, H.; Duan, X.; Clark, J.H.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Manganese-biochar catalyst for sustainable glycolic acid production from biomass-derived glucose and oligosaccharides. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2024, 12, 16423–16433. [Journal Cover]

14. Wang, J.; Wen, M.; La, X.; Ren, J.; Jiang, J.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Resonance-driven microwave heating for improved methane conversion to hydrogen. Appl. Energ., 2024, 375, 124100.

15. Li, M.; Zhu, X.*; Zhang, Y.; Tsang, D.C.W.* A multi-phase mechanical model of biochar-cement composites at the mesoscale. Comput. Aided Civ. Inf., 2024, 39, 3552-3572. [Journal Cover]

16. Wang, M.; Xu, Z.; Dutta, S.; Liu, K.; Labianca, C.; Clark, J.H.; Zimmerman, J.B.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Integrated assessment of deep eutectic solvents questions solvometallurgy as a sustainable recycling approach for lithium-ion batteries. One Earth, 2023, 6, 1400-1413.

17. Wang, M.; Liu, K.; Xu, Z.; Dutta, S.; Valix, M.; Alessi, D.S.; Huang, L.; Zimmerman, J.B.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Selective extraction of critical metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2023, 57, 3940-3950. [Journal Cover]

18. He, M.; Xu, Z.; Hou, D.; Gao, B.; Cao, X.; Ok, Y.S.; Rinklebe, J.; Bolan, N.S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ., 2022, 3, 444-460.