Name: Pu Zhao
Position: Professor
Department: Innovation Center for Chemical Science
Address: 701-1534, 199 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Postcode: 215123
Email: puzhao@maxbocai.com
Biography
2024－now: Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
2022－2023: Associate Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
2019－2022: Glasstone Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
2016－2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (Supervisor: Prof. Edman Tsang)
2011－2015: PhD, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Simon Redfern)
2007－2011: BSc, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
Research interests
1. Porous materials for adsorption and catalysis
2. Synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering characterisation methods
Positions available
PhD and postdoc positions are available on request. Successful applicants should have a degree in chemistry, materials science, or physics with a good track record.
Selected publications
1. C. Xu, W. Orbell, G. Wang, B. Li, B. K. Y. Ng, T.-S. Wu, Y.-L. Soo, Z.-X. Luan, K. Tang, X.-P. Wu, S. C. E. Tsang*, P. Zhao*, Direct visualisation of metal–defect cooperative catalysis in Ru-doped defective MOF-808, J. Mater. Chem. A 2024, 12 (30), 19018-19028.
2. Z. Chen, S. Mo, H. Lin, Z. Wu, Y. Zhao, X. Hua, P. Zhao*, Understanding porous materials with pair distribution functions, Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2023, 4 (12), 101681.
3. S. Mo, G. Wang, B. Ng, P. Zhao*, Investigating porous catalysts with synchrotron X-rays and neutrons, Chem Catal. 2022, 2 (12), 3290-3303.
4. P. Zhao*, S. C. E. Tsang, D. Fairen-Jimenez, Structural heterogeneity and dynamics in flexible metal–organic frameworks, Cell Rep. Phys. Sci.2021, 2 (9), 100544.
5. P. Zhao, L. Ye, G. Li, C. Huang, S. Wu, P.-L. Ho, H. Wang, T. Yoskamtorn, D. Sheptyakov, G. Cibin, A. I. Kirkland, C. C. Tang, A. Zheng, W. Xue, D. Mei, K. Suriye, S. C. E. Tsang*, Rational design of synergistic active sites for catalytic ethene/2-butene cross-metathesis in a rhenium-doped Y zeolite catalyst, ACS Catal. 2021, 11 (6), 3530-3540.
6. T. Yoskamtorn†, P. Zhao†, X.-P. Wu*, K. Purchase, F. Orlandi, P. Manuel, J. Taylor, Y. Li, S. Day, L. Ye, C. C. Tang, Y. Zhao, S. C. E. Tsang* (†equal contribution), Responses of defect-rich Zr-based metal–organic frameworks towards NH3 adsorption, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (8), 3205-3218.
7. P. Zhao*, H. Fang, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. Li, S. Rudić, I. J. McPherson, C. C. Tang, D. Fairen-Jimenez, S. C. E. Tsang, S. A. T. Redfern*, Structural dynamics of a metal-organic framework induced by CO2 migration in its non-uniform porous structure, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 999.
8. P. Zhao, L. Ye, Z. Sun, B. T. W. Lo, H. Woodcock, C. Huang, C. Tang, A. I. Kirkland, D. Mei, S. C. E. Tsang*, Entrapped single tungstate site in zeolite for cooperative catalysis of olefin metathesis with Brønsted acid site, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (21), 6661-6667.
9. P. Zhao, G. I. Lampronti, G. O. Lloyd, M. T. Wharmby, S. Facq, A. K. Cheetham, S. A. T. Redfern*, Phase transitions in zeolitic imidazolate framework 7: the importance of framework flexibility and guest-induced instability, Chem. Mater. 2014, 26 (5), 1767-1769.
10. P. Zhao, G. I. Lampronti, G. O. Lloyd, E. Suard, S. A. T. Redfern*, Direct visualisation of carbon dioxide adsorption in gate-opening zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-7, J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2 (3), 620-623.