Research

Jier Huang

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society

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Jier Huang

Ph.D.

Contact

Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, 408

Telephone: 617-552-3116

Email: jier.huang@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Emory University

Research

The major theme of our research is focused on the development of cutting edge materials for various chemical reactions and applications in sustainable energy source. This effort involves the design, synthesis, and spectroscopic characterization of hybrid porous and semiconducting materials, with our aim to correlate the structure of these materials with their photophysical and photochemical properties. Currently, we are investigating new hybrid materials including covalent organic frameworks (COFs), metal organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), and semiconductor nanocrystals. The hallmark of our research program is the close integration of materials design and synthesis with advanced time resolved and in situ spectroscopic techniques, which allows us to probe the unknown and underexplored structure/function relationships of the hybrid materials.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

  • 2021-2023听 Wehr Distinguished Professor, Marquette University
  • 2020听 Faculty Sabbatical Award (2020-2021), Marquette University
  • 2019听 Department of Energy Career Research Award
  • 2019听 Mentor of the Year, Marquette University
  • 2017听 Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, Marquette University
  • 2017听 NSF Career Award

REPRESENTATIVE KEY PUBLICATIONS

1. SantaLucia, D. J.; Hu, W.; Wang, D.; Huang, J.*; Berry, J. F.* 鈥�Postsynthetic Treatment of ZIF-67 with 5-Methyltetrazole: Evolution from Pseudo-Td to Pseudo-Oh Symmetry and Collapse of Magnetic Ordering鈥�, Inorganic Chemistry, 2022, 61, 6056-6062.

2. Fiankor, C.; Nyakuchena, J.; Khoo, R.; Zhang, X.; Hu, Y.; Yang, S.; Huang, J.;* Zhang, J.* 鈥淪ymmetry-Guided Synthesis of N,N鈥�-Bicarbazole and Porphyrin-Based Mixed-Ligand Metal-Organic Frameworks: Light Harvesting and Energy Transfer鈥�, 鈥�, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20411-20418.

3. Yang, S.; Streater, D.; Fiankor, C.; Zhang, J.; Huang, J.* 鈥淐onjugation and Aggregation Directed Design of Covalent Organic Frameworks as White Light-Emitting Diode鈥�, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 1061-1068.

4. Nyakuchena, J.; Ostresh, S.; Streater, D.; Pattengale, B.; Fiankor, C.; Hu, W.; Kinigstein, E. D.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, X.; Schmuttenmaer, C. A.; Huang, J.* 鈥淒irect Evidence of Photoinduced Charge Transport Mechanism in 2D Conductive Metal Organic Frameworks鈥�, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 120, 21050-21058.

5. Pattengale, B.; Huang, Y.; Yan, X.; Yang, S.; Younan, S.; Hu, W.; Li, Z.; Lee, S.; Pan, X.; Gu, J.;* Huang, J.* Dynamic Evolution and Reversibility of Single-atom Ni(II) . Active Site in 1T-MoS2 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution鈥�, Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4114.

6. Yang, F.; Hu, W.; Patrick, M.; Cooksy, A. L.; Aguiar, J. A.; Fang, C.; Zhou Y.,* Meng, Y. S.; Huang, J.;* Gu, J.*, 鈥淭uning Internal Strain in Metal-Organic Frameworks via Vapor Phase Infiltration for CO2 搁别诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥�, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 2-11.

7. Yang, S.; Hu, W.; Zhang, X.; He, P.; Pattengale, B.; Liu, C.; Cendejas, M.; Hermes, I.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, J.*; Huang, J.* 鈥�2D Covalent Organic Frameworks as Intrinsic Photocatalysts for Visible Light Driven CO2 搁别诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥�, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 14614-14618.

8. Lu, J.; Pattengale, B.; Liu, Q.; Yang, S.; Shi, W.; Li, S.*; Huang, J.*; Zhang, J.* 鈥淒onor-Acceptor Fluorophores for Energy Transfer Mediated Photocatalysis鈥�,听J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13719-13725.

9. Pattengale, B.; SantaLucia, D.; Yang, S.; Hu, W.; Liu, C.; Zhang, X.; Berry, J.*; Huang, J.* "Direct Observation of Node-to-Node Communication in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 11573-11576.

10. Pattengale, B.; Yang, S.; Ludwig, J.; Huang, Z.; Zhang, X.; and Huang, J.* 鈥淓xceptionally Long-Lived Charge Separated State in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework: Implication for Photocatalytic Applications鈥�. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 8072-8075.

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