Yaguang Zhu
Professor
Dr. Yaguang Zhu is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering and the Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy at Texas Tech University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University from 2022 to 2025.
Dr Zhu’s research advances CO₂ and water valorization by designing reactive environmental interfaces and developing operando, 3D diagnostic tools, especially synchrotron X-ray methods, to reveal interfacial heterogeneity and failure mechanisms under realistic conditions. He applies this interface-to-systems approach to reactive carbon capture and electrified chemical synthesis, 2D (MXene) membranes with engineered surface chemistry for selective critical-element/resource recovery, and SERS-enabled plasmonic platforms for sensitive detection and monitoring of interfacial chemistry.
Dr. Yaguang Zhu is an active member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Materials Research Society (MRS).
