Staff Scientist, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis
510.486.7964
Biography
Jian Zhang received his Ph.D. in 2008 from University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Prof. Stéphane Petoud. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University. He began his independent academic career at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2011), where he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor (2017). He joined the Foundry in 2018 as a Staff Scientist. His honors include an NSF CAREER award, the UNL Layman award, and Achievement Award for Outstanding Service in Materials and Nanoscience Educational Outreach.
Research Interests
Dr. Zhang’s research interests lie in the design and synthesis of nanoporous materials such as MOFs and COFs with interesting structural, chemical, and optoelectronic profiles. Current research goals are focused on new 2D and 3D porous hybrid materials for their electrocatalytic and photoelectric catalytic applications in energy conversion. These projects will use organic synthesis to construct novel building blocks to build architectures with tailored structural, electronic, and dynamic features that modulate the kinetic aspects of the energy-related reactions.
Selected Publications
2D covalent organic frameworks as intrinsic photocatalysts for visible light-driven CO2 reduction.
Yang, S.; Hu, W.; Zhang, X.; He, P.; Pattengale, B.; Liu, C.; Cendejas, M.; Hermans, I.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, J.*; Huang, J.*,
(2018) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Conversion of lignin models via photoredox catalysis.
Zhang, J.*
(2018) ChemSusChem
Donor-acceptor fluorophores for energy-transfer-mediated photocatalysis.
Lu, J.; Pattengale, B.; Liu, Q.; Yang, S.; Shi, W.; Li, S.*; Huang, J.*; Zhang, J.*
(2018) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Topology-guided stepwise insertion of three secondary linkers in zirconium metal-organic frameworks.
Zhang, X.; Frey, B. L.; Chen, Y. S.; Zhang, J.*
(2018) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Fine tuning the redox potentials of carbazolic porous organic frameworks for visible-light photoredox catalytic degradation of lignin β‐O‐4 models.
Luo, J.; Zhang, X.; Lu, J.; Zhang, J.*
(2017) ACS Catalysis
Evaluating topologically diverse metal-organic frameworks for cryo-adsorbed hydrogen storage.
Gómez-Gualdrón, D. A.; Colón, Y. J.; Zhang, X.; Wang, T. C.; Chen, Y-S, Hupp, J. T.; Yildirim, T.;* Farha, O. K.;* Zhang, J.;* and Snurr, R. Q.*
(2016) Energy Environmental Science
A new approach to non coordinating anions: lewis acidity enhancement of porphyrin metal centers on an anionic indium metal-organic framework.
Johnson, J. A.; Petersen, B. M.†; Kormos, A.; Echeverría E.; Chen, Y.-S.; Zhang, J.*
(2016) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Highly porous zirconium metal-organic frameworks with β-UH3-like topology based on elongated tetrahedral linkers.
Zhang, Xin.; Zhang, Xu.; Johnson, J. A.; Chen, Y.-S.; Zhang, J.*
(2016) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Donor-acceptor fluorophores for visible-light promoted organic synthesis: photoredox/Ni dual catalytic C(sp3)-C(sp2) cross-coupling.
Luo, J.; Zhang, J.*
(2016) ACS Catalysis
A carbazolic porous organic framework as an efficient, metal-free visible-light photocatalyst for organic synthesis.
Luo, J.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, J.*
(2015) ACS Catalysis
Facile control of the charge density and photocatalytic activity of an anionic indium porphyrin framework via in situ metalation.
Johnson, J. A.; Zhang X.; Reeson, T. C.; Chen, Y. S.; Zhang, J.*
(2014) Journal of the American Chemical Society
Porosity enhancement of carbazolic porous organic frameworks using dendritic building blocks for gas storage and separation.
Zhang, X.; Lu, J.; Zhang, J.*
(2014) Chemistry of Materials
