Mingjiang Zhong

Website:

Zhong Research Group

Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Chemistry

Room / Office: Room 429

Office Address:

17 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 208286

New Haven, CT 06520

Phone: (203) 432-5790

Fax: (203) 432-4387

Email: mingjiang.zhong@yale.edu

Degrees:

B.S., Peking University
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Interests:

New synthetic methods for the preparation of functional organic materials and organic-inorganic interfaces.
Polymeric and polymer-derived carbon materials for energy, catalysis, and environmental applications.
Combining sophisticated molecular design and analysis techniques to understand complex soft matter behaviors.

Selected Awards & Honors:

2020 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2019 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2019 ACS PMSE Young Investigator
2017 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator
2013 Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University
2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
2013 ACS POLY Award for Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, ACS Polymer Division
2012 Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University

Selected Publications:

Li, F.;^† Cao, M.;^† Feng, Y.; Liang, R.; Fu, X.; Zhong, M.^*, Site-Specifically Initiated Controlled/Living Branching Radical Polymerization: A Synthetic Route Toward Hierarchically Branched Architectures. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 794–799. (^†equal contribution)
Guo, Z.-H.;^† Le, A. N.;^† Feng, X.; Choo, Y.; Liu, B.; Wang, D.; Wan, Z.; Gu, Y.; Zhao, J.; Li, V.; Osuji, C.; Johnson, J. A.;^* Zhong, M.^*, Janus Graft Block Copolymers: Design of Polymer Architecture for Independently Tuned Nanostructures and Polymer Properties. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 8493–8497. (^†equal contribution)
Zhong, M.;^† Wang, R.;^† Kawamoto, K.;^† Olsen, B. D.; Johnson, J. A., Quantifying the Impact of Molecular Defects on Polymer Network Elasticity. Science 2016, 353, 1264-1268. (^†equal contribution)
Kawamoto, K.;^† Zhong, M.;^† Gadelrab, K. R.; Cheng, L.-C.; Ross, C. A.; Alexander-Katz, A.; Johnson, J. A., Graft-through Synthesis and Assembly of Janus Bottlebrush Polymers from A-branch-B Diblock Macromonomers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11501-11504. (^†equal contribution)
Chen, M.;^† Zhong, M.;^† Johnson, J. A., Photo-mediated and Photo-Catalyzed Living Polymerizations. Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 10167-10211. (^†equal contribution)
Zhukhovitskiy, A. V.; Zhong, M.; Keeler, E. G.; Michaelis, V. K.; Sun, J. E.P.; Hore, M. J. A.; Pochan, D. J.; Griffin, R. G.; Willard, A. P.; Johnson, J. A., Highly Branched and Loop-rich Gels via Formation of Metal-organic Cages Linked by Polymers. Nature Chem. 2016, 8, 33-41.
Zhong, M.;^† Kim, E. K.;^† McGann, J. P.; Chun, S. E.; Whitacre, J. F.; Jaroniec, M.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Kowalewski, T., Electrochemically Active Nitrogen-Enriched Nanocarbons with Well-Defined Morphology Synthesized by Pyrolysis of Self-Assembled Block Copolymer. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 14846-14857. (^†equal contribution)