Rate My Professor David Wang

Wang's research specializations encompass water and wastewater treatment, sol-gel synthesis, material characterization, polymeric biomaterials, polymer chemistry, materials engineering, materials chemistry, and spectroscopy. His work centers on developing advanced membrane technologies for gas separations, carbon dioxide and methane separation, desalination, ammonia removal, and heterogeneous Fenton-like degradation of organic pollutants using perovskite catalysts and single-atom cobalt catalysts. He has produced 116 publications garnering over 3,000 citations. Key publications include 'Highly dispersed, single-atom cobalt, Fenton-like catalyst on microporous silica for efficient advanced oxidation process' (2025), 'The polyetherimide composite alumina membranes for carbon dioxide and methane separations' (2025), 'Ultramicroporous carbon molecular sieve membranes via co-pyrolysis of cobalt-2,6-bis(2-benzimidazolyl) pyridine and polyetherimide for enhanced gas separations' (2025), 'Predicted kinetic behaviour of the oxidative degradation of organic pollutant using substituted MeCuFeO3 (Me = Ca, Sr, CaSr) perovskite catalysts' (2024), 'Iron nanoparticle coating and plasma-activated water cleaning as a biofouling removal method for reverse osmosis membranes suitable for desalination' (2024), and 'Functional role of B-site substitution on the reactivity of CaMFeO3 (M = Cu, Mo, Co) perovskite catalysts in heterogeneous Fenton-like degradation of organic pollutant' (2023). Wang has secured major awards and fellowships, including the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship (2015-2019) for 'Nanostructure Tailoring of Inorganic Membranes by Rapid Thermal Processing', American Australian Association Chevron Fellowship (2016-2017), and European Membrane Society Young Academics Award (2016).