{"id":3,"date":"2016-06-29T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/zhang\/news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:23:50","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/zhang\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 6, 2025<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Tori for receiving the prestigious Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) Fellowship! We are incredibly proud of Tori\u2019s achievement and can\u2019t wait to see the impact of her work. Way to go, Tori!<\/h4>\n

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April 16, 2025<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Hannah,  Mycah and Sebastian, our work \u201cUnifying the pts and sql Isomers of the Lanthanide-pETTC Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks\u201d has been accepted by Energy &Fuels<\/a>. Good Job!<\/h4>\n

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April  23rd  2024<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Hannah,  Matt, Fidelia, Lauren, Dylan, and Jiahong, our work \u201cProbing Ligand Conformation and Net Dimensionality in a Series of Tetraphenylethene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks\u201d has been accepted by Frontiers in Chemistry<\/a>. Good Job!<\/h4>\n

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April  18th  2024<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Hannah,  our collaborative work \u201cCationic Radical Metal\u2013Organic Framework Enabling Low Water Evaporation Enthalpy and High Photothermal Conversion Efficiency for Solar-Driven Water Purification\u201d with the Liu group has been published by Journal of Materials Chemistry A<\/a>. Good Job!<\/h4>\n

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February  22nd  2024<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Hannah,  our collaborative work \u201cUranyl uptake into metal\u2013organic frameworks: a detailed X-ray structural analysis\u201d with the Moreau group has been published by Dalton Transactions<\/a>. Good Job!<\/h4>\n

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October 27th 2023<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Sheng (Jason),  our collaborative work \u201cNiFe Nanoparticle Nest Supported on Graphene as Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction\u201d with the Lin group<\/a> has been published by Small<\/a>. Good job!<\/h4>\n

October 11th 2023<\/h4>\n

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<\/a>. Good job!<\/h4>\n

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Sep. 13th 2022<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Jiahong,  our collaborative work “Energetic Systematics of Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks: A Case Study of Al(III)-Trimesate MOF Isomers” with the Guo group has been published by Inorganic Chemistry<\/a> Good job!<\/h4>\n

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April 6th, 2022<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Lauren for winning the Crimson award of Applied Sciences in SURCA 2022<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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December 15th, 2021<\/h4>\n

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.<\/h6>\n

\u201cMOF-Enabled Ion-Regulating Gel Electrolyte for Long-Cycling Lithium Metal Batteries Under High Voltage\u201d Fu, Xuewei, Hurlock, Matthew J. , Ding, Chenfeng, Li, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Qiang,* Zhong, Wei-Hong*, Small<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, (Early View) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/smll.202106225.<\/p>\n

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October 11th, 2021<\/h4>\n
Group photo indoor-style:<\/h6>\n

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October 5th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Brandon Bunch joined the group as an undergraduate researcher, welcome Brandon!<\/h6>\n

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September 17th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Three of our graduate students are selected to receive graduate fellowships!!!<\/h6>\n
Congratulations to Matt, he has been selected to receive the Donald S. Matteson Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry<\/a>.<\/h6>\n
Congratulations to Anika, she has been selected to receive the Frank A. Fowler Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry.<\/a><\/h6>\n
Congratulations to Jiahong, she has been selected to receive the Julian Culbertson Fellowship<\/a>.<\/b><\/h6>\n

July 14th 2021<\/h4>\n

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<\/a>, Good job!<\/h6>\n

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June 14th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Matt and Leiduan, our collaborative work with the Guo group and O’Keeffe group “Evolution of 14-Connected Zr6<\/sub> Secondary Building Units through Postsynthetic Linker Incorporation<\/span>” (Invited contribution) has been published by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces<\/a>, Good job!<\/h6>\n

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May 18th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Lydia, she has been recognized as one of the 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Seniors<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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March 12th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Jiahong, Matt and Xiaoyu, their collaborative work “Solvent-Free and Phase-Selective Synthesis of Aluminum Trimesate Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks” has been published by Inorganic Chemistry<\/a> Good job!<\/h6>\n

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February 4th, 2021<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Matt and Fidelia , their work “Two Cd-Based Luminescent Coordination Polymers Constructed from a Truncated Linker” has been published by Inorganic Chemistry<\/a> Good job!<\/h6>\n

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September 7th, 2020<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Leiduan, her work “Zr-based MOFs for oxidative desulfurization: What matters?” has been published by Green Chem. <\/a>This is an collaborative work with Prof. Sebastian Stoian<\/a> at University of Idaho.<\/h6>\n
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June 9th, 2020<\/h4>\n

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. <\/a><\/h6>\n

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April 3rd, 2020<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Guodong, his work “Atomically dispersed palladium catalyses Suzuki\u2013Miyaura reactions under phosphine-free conditions” has been accepted and published online by one of the new Nature journals, Communications Chemistry<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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February 26, 2020<\/h4>\n

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<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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October 10, 2019<\/h4>\n
Our review paper has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Organic Chemistry<\/a>. Congratulations to Leiduan, Guodong and Derek.<\/h6>\n

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August 23, 2019<\/h4>\n

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.<\/h6>\n

August 12, 2019<\/h4>\n

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.<\/h6>\n

April 9, 2019<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Leiduan, Our work “Efficient oxidative desulfurization using a mesoporous Zr-based MOF” has been accepted by Catalysis Today<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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April 4, 2019<\/h4>\n
Our collaborative work with Dr. Mazur has been accepted by Langmuir<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

March 25, 2019<\/h4>\n

Dr. Zhang has been selected as one of the 22 Emerging Investigators in Crystal Growth & Design<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

January 25, 2019<\/h4>\n

We helped the Dr. Universe to answer chemistry questions from kids. See the article here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

January 17, 2019<\/h4>\n

Our collaborative work with Dr. Lin from MME has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

November 11, 2018<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Leiduan, the collaborative work has been accepted by New Journal of Chemistry.<\/h6>\n

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September 25, 2018<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Leiduan, her work has been accepted by Chem. Comm.<\/h6>\n

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August 31, 2018<\/h4>\n

Congratulations to Matt, his work has been accepted by Crystal Growth & Design, good job!<\/h6>\n

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June 6th, 2018<\/h4>\n
The Zhang group has received the WSU SEED Grant. We thank WSU for the support!<\/h6>\n

14 junior faculty receive WSU seed funding<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n