August 6, 2025
Congratulations to Tori for receiving the prestigious Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) Fellowship! We are incredibly proud of Tori’s achievement and can’t wait to see the impact of her work. Way to go, Tori!
April 16, 2025
Congratulations to Hannah, Mycah and Sebastian, our work “Unifying the pts and sql Isomers of the Lanthanide-pETTC Metal–Organic Frameworks” has been accepted by Energy &Fuels. Good Job!
April 23rd 2024
Congratulations to Hannah, Matt, Fidelia, Lauren, Dylan, and Jiahong, our work “Probing Ligand Conformation and Net Dimensionality in a Series of Tetraphenylethene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks” has been accepted by Frontiers in Chemistry. Good Job!
April 18th 2024
Congratulations to Hannah, our collaborative work “Cationic Radical Metal–Organic Framework Enabling Low Water Evaporation Enthalpy and High Photothermal Conversion Efficiency for Solar-Driven Water Purification” with the Liu group has been published by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Good Job!
February 22nd 2024
Congratulations to Hannah, our collaborative work “Uranyl uptake into metal–organic frameworks: a detailed X-ray structural analysis” with the Moreau group has been published by Dalton Transactions. Good Job!
October 27th 2023
Congratulations to Sheng (Jason), our collaborative work “NiFe Nanoparticle Nest Supported on Graphene as Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction” with the Lin group has been published by Small. Good job!
October 11th 2023
Congratulations to Jiahong, our collaborative work “Synergetic catalytic effect in functionalized HP-MOF system for boosted catalytic performances” with the Guo group has been published by Chemical Engineering Journal. Good job!
Sep. 13th 2022
Congratulations to Jiahong, our collaborative work “Energetic Systematics of Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Case Study of Al(III)-Trimesate MOF Isomers” with the Guo group has been published by Inorganic Chemistry Good job!
April 6th, 2022
Congratulations to Lauren for winning the Crimson award of Applied Sciences in SURCA 2022.
December 15th, 2021
Congratulations to Matt and Xiaoyu, our collaborative work with the Zhong group at MME on applications of MOFs in Lithium battery has been published in Small.
“MOF-Enabled Ion-Regulating Gel Electrolyte for Long-Cycling Lithium Metal Batteries Under High Voltage” Fu, Xuewei, Hurlock, Matthew J. , Ding, Chenfeng, Li, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Qiang,* Zhong, Wei-Hong*, Small, (Early View) https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202106225.
October 11th, 2021
Group photo indoor-style:
October 5th, 2021
Brandon Bunch joined the group as an undergraduate researcher, welcome Brandon!
September 17th, 2021
Three of our graduate students are selected to receive graduate fellowships!!!
Congratulations to Matt, he has been selected to receive the Donald S. Matteson Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry.
Congratulations to Anika, she has been selected to receive the Frank A. Fowler Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry.
Congratulations to Jiahong, she has been selected to receive the Julian Culbertson Fellowship.
July 14th 2021
Congratulations to Leiduan, Anika, Guodong and Xiaoyu, our collaborative work “Selective hydroxylation of aryl iodides to produce phenols under mild conditions using a supported copper catalyst” (Invited contribution) has been published by RSC Advances, Good job!
June 14th, 2021
Congratulations to Matt and Leiduan, our collaborative work with the Guo group and O’Keeffe group “Evolution of 14-Connected Zr6 Secondary Building Units through Postsynthetic Linker Incorporation” (Invited contribution) has been published by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Good job!
May 18th, 2021
Congratulations to Lydia, she has been recognized as one of the 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Seniors.
March 12th, 2021
Congratulations to Jiahong, Matt and Xiaoyu, their collaborative work “Solvent-Free and Phase-Selective Synthesis of Aluminum Trimesate Metal–Organic Frameworks” has been published by Inorganic Chemistry Good job!
February 4th, 2021
Congratulations to Matt and Fidelia , their work “Two Cd-Based Luminescent Coordination Polymers Constructed from a Truncated Linker” has been published by Inorganic Chemistry Good job!
September 7th, 2020
Congratulations to Leiduan, her work “Zr-based MOFs for oxidative desulfurization: What matters?” has been published by Green Chem. This is an collaborative work with Prof. Sebastian Stoian at University of Idaho.
June 9th, 2020
Congratulations to Xiaoyu, her work “Microwave-assisted Synthesis of Zirconium Phosphate Nanoplatelets Supported Ru-Anadem Nano-structures and Their Catalytic Study for the Hydrogenation of Acetophenone” has been published by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
April 3rd, 2020
Congratulations to Guodong, his work “Atomically dispersed palladium catalyses Suzuki–Miyaura reactions under phosphine-free conditions” has been accepted and published online by one of the new Nature journals, Communications Chemistry.
February 26, 2020
Our collaborative paper “Molten NaCl-induced MOF-derived Carbon-polyhedron Decorated Carbon-nanosheet with High Defects and High N-doping for Boosting the Removal of Carbamazepine from Water” has been accepted and published online by Environmental Science: Nano.
October 10, 2019
Our review paper has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations to Leiduan, Guodong and Derek.
August 23, 2019
Congratulations to Matt, he has been selected to receive the James P & Lee Ella Ruck Grad Fellowship in Chemistry for the 2019-20 academic year.
August 12, 2019
Congratulations to Derek, he has been accepted into the WSU-PNNL Distinguished Graduate Research Program. He will spend his last two years of graduate research at PNNL working with Dr. Praveen Thallapally.
April 9, 2019
Congratulations to Leiduan, Our work “Efficient oxidative desulfurization using a mesoporous Zr-based MOF” has been accepted by Catalysis Today.
April 4, 2019
Our collaborative work with Dr. Mazur has been accepted by Langmuir.
March 25, 2019
Dr. Zhang has been selected as one of the 22 Emerging Investigators in Crystal Growth & Design.
January 25, 2019
We helped the Dr. Universe to answer chemistry questions from kids. See the article here.
January 17, 2019
Our collaborative work with Dr. Lin from MME has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
November 11, 2018
Congratulations to Leiduan, the collaborative work has been accepted by New Journal of Chemistry.
September 25, 2018
Congratulations to Leiduan, her work has been accepted by Chem. Comm.
August 31, 2018
Congratulations to Matt, his work has been accepted by Crystal Growth & Design, good job!
June 6th, 2018
The Zhang group has received the WSU SEED Grant. We thank WSU for the support!
May 16th, 2018
Chris graduated with a Master degree in Chemistry, congratulations! We wish you all the best!
May 1st, 2018
The Zhang group has received the WSU SEED Grant. We thank WSU for the support!
April 13th, 2018
Dr. Zhang has been recognized as one of the outstanding reviewers for for Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2017.
December 15th, 2017
Dr. Zhang is one of the 2018 ALASKA AIRLINES TRAVEL AWARD Winners. Thank you Alaska Airlines for the support!
August 28th, 2017
We hosted the Campus Adventures kids camp in our new labs. It’s in the The Daily Evergreen.
Check out the news here .
August 5th, 2017
We had a group party to celebrate the successful lab move!
Group picnic in Dr. Zhang’s backyard!
Dr. Zhang is filling up Chris’ shot glass with liquor:)
The Zhang group is taking the shot!
Chris and Matt are focusing on Dr. Zhang’s speech?
Playing the Cornhole game in the dark!
Playing the Cornhole game in the dark!
August 2nd, 2017
We have moved to the new labs in Troy. Take a look at the new labs.
The rotary evaporator has been placed in a 6 foot fume hood!
The new labs are equipped with eight 8 foot fume hoods for Schlenk lines.
The view of the lab from the hallway (we have big windows).
The labs have plenty of bench space and cabinets for storage.
The instrument room is huge.
A corner of the instrument room with flammable cabinets for gas cylinders.
The solvent purification system is up and running.
The small glovebox is installed.
The big glovebox is up and running!
The ASAP2020Plus for gas adsorption analyses is installed.
July 1st, 2017
Matt has been awarded the Frank A. Fowler Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry! It is an honorable award for a first year graduate student. Congratulations Matt!
July 1st, 2017
Xiaoyu Li joined the group as a graduate student through the MSEP program. Welcome Xiaoyu!
June 1st, 2017
Dr. Leiduan Hao joined the group as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome Leiduan!
May 6th, 2017
Dr. Zhang walked with the 2017 Chemistry graduating class. Congratulations to all of you.
May 1st, 2017
Dr. Zhang invited Dr. Xiulei Ji from Oregon State University for a seminar talk. We had a great time.
February 1st, 2017
The gas adsorption analyzer ASAP2020Plus from Micromeritics has been installed and up running. We are fully equipped.
December 18th, 2016
We have our brand new Glovebox Vigor SciLab and Solvent Purification System installed.
September 27th, 2016
Mr. Matt Hurlock joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Matt!
September 16th, 2016
Mr. Nick Elms joins the group as a undergraduate researcher. Welcome Nick!
September 1st, 2016
Tiffany Zhao joins the group as a undergraduate researcher. Welcome Tiffany!
July 22nd, 2016
We have received more equipment today. Yeah!
July 21st, 2016
We have received more equipment and consumables.
July 19th, 2016
Our iS 10 FTIR with Praying Mantis DRIFT accessory is installed and fully functional!
July 18th, 2016
Congratulations to Chris, she is the recipient of the Graduate School Recruitment Scholarship for STEM disciplines.
July 18th, 2016
We have received more equipment. The lab is almost ready.
July 1st, 2016
Welcome to Chris and Yuwei.
June 1st, 2016
Dr. Zhang’s first day at WSU.