Mingjiang Zhong

Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Additional Appointments

Materials Science

Phone:
(203) 432-5790

Room / Office:
Room 429

Office Address:

17 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520

Website: Zhong Research Group

About Mingjiang Zhong

Degrees

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

Perspectives

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

2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2021 Wiley Journal of Polymer Science Early Career Investigator
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)