Zhao Pu

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@suda.edu.cn

Biography

2024now: Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University

20222023: Associate Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University

20192022: Glasstone Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

20162019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (Supervisor: Prof. Edman Tsang)

20112015: PhD, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Simon Redfern)

20072011: 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. 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.

2. S. Mo, G. Wang, B. Ng,P. Zhao*, Investigating porous catalysts with synchrotron X-rays and neutrons,Chem Catal.2022, 2 (12), 3290-3303.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 NH3adsorption,J. Am. Chem. Soc.2021, 143 (8), 3205-3218.

6. 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 CO2migration in its non-uniform porous structure,Nat. Commun.2019, 10 (1), 999.

7. 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.

8. P. Zhao, T. D. Bennett, N. P. M. Casati, G. I. Lampronti, S. A. Moggach, S. A. T. Redfern*, Pressure-induced oversaturation and phase transition in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks with remarkable mechanical stability,Dalton Trans.2015, 44 (10), 4498-4503.

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. A2014, 2 (3), 620-623.