Y.F. Zhang

This publication record appears to blend two distinct lines of engineering research: (1) protective coatings and thin-film materials, including high-entropy alloy films, tribological and corrosion-resistant coatings, and atomic-oxygen-resistant coatings for spacecraft components like Kapton solar arrays; and (2) large-scale water resource management, focusing on optimization models for water-food-energy-ecology systems under uncertainty in regions such as the Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia, and the Yellow River Basin. Students interested in materials science for aerospace applications or in systems-level water-resource optimization and sustainability modeling may find relevant work here, though the co-occurrence of these two very different subfields under one name suggests the profile may combine multiple researchers or highly diverse expertise.

Publication output was sparse before 2021, then increased notably from 2021 onward, averaging about 2.6 papers per year over the last five years with continued output through 2025.

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