Jin Zhong Zhang
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Faculty
Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Physical Sciences Building
152
Physical Sciences Bldg 152 (Office)
Physical Sciences Bldg 179 (Lab)
by appointment
Chemistry
1983, B.S.in Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
1989, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
1992, Postdoctoral Fellows, UC Berkeley
2020-present UC Distinguished Professor and Chair
2004-2020 Full Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
1998-2004 Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2000 May-Sept. Visiting Scientist, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill
2000 Jan.-March Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
1992-98 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
1989-92 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1992 Visiting Scientist, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
1983-84 English Training for the Doering Chemistry Graduate Program (CGP), Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China
1984-89 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics of nanomaterials; cancer biomarker detection; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; solar energy conversion, sensing, and light emission.
The Zhang research group is primarily interested in the design, development, characterization, and application of advanced materials with emphasis on optical and electronic nanomaterials (nanocrystals or quantum dots, magic sized clusters, and quantum dot solids) of both semiconductors and metals. These nanomaterials have novel physical and chemical properties due to quantum confinement and exceedingly large surface to volume ratio. The design and synthesis of the materials are mostly based on inorganic colloidal chemistry methods. The synthesized materials are characterized systematically and extensively using a variety of experimental techniques including SERS (surface-enhanced Raman scattering), optical spectroscopy, ultrafast laser, x-ray (XAFS, XPS), ESR, electrochemical, and microscopy. In the meantime, the group actively explores emerging technological applications of these advanced nanomaterials in areas such as solar energy conversion, hydrogen generation via water splitting, cancer biomarker detection, photoelectrochemistry, sensors, and LEDs. A number of projects have been accomplished and several are currently under investigation. Some examples of on-going projects include:
1. Metal halide perovskite films, quantum dots (QDs), and magic sized clusters (MSCs): fundamental issues related to stability, optical properties, solar energy conversion, LED and sensing applications
2. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors for chemical and biomedical detection with emphasis on cancer biomarkers including antigens and antibodies.
3. Photothermal imaging and ablation therapy of cancer cells using hollow gold nanoshells (HGNs)
4. Ultrafast studies of exciton and charge carrier dynamics in doped and undoped semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and plasmonic metal nanostructures.
5. Hydrogen generation via water splitting based on novel semiconductor, oxide, and metal nanostructures including nanowires and nanorods via photoelectrochemistry or photocatalysis.
General Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Lab, Graduate Quantum Chemistry, Graduate Spectroscopy.
2024 Inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS (top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide) and highly ranked scholar-lifetime (#24 in Nanostructure and #142 in Physical Chemistry).
2023 Achievements Award of Multiscale Functional Materials, International symposium on advances in multiscale functional materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies.
2023 Ranked 316th in the top scientists in materials science in the USA (conducted by research.com)
2021 Materials Scientists Award, International Conferences on Materials: Advanced and Emerging Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciencee Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies.
2020 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2019 Inducted Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials
2019 Highli cited researchets (top 1%) and researchers with cross-field impact, Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science
2018 Highli cited researchets (top 1%), Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science
2014 Richard A. Glenn Award, ACS Energy and Fuel Division
2011 Elected Fellows of the American Chemical Society
2009 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
2009-present, Adjunct Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology
2009-present, Adjunct Professor of Nanyang University of Science and Technology, Nanyang, Henan, China
2007 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2008-present, Adjunct Professor of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
2006-present, Guest Professor, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
2007-2009, Overseas Young Investigator Award, NSF of China, Sponsored by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2005-2007, Senior Visiting Scholar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2006-2010, Member of AAAS
1991-present, Member of the American Chemical Society
1988-2010, Member of the American Physical Society
1984-85, Doering Chemistry Graduate Program (CGP) Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle
1983, Recipient of CGP Award by the Chinese Education Commission
1983, Outstanding Student Award, Fudan University, China
1. David C. Zeitz, Vivien L. Cherrette, Sarah A. Creech, Yuan Ping, Yan Li, and Jin Zhong Zhang, “Ultrafast Spin Relaxation of Charge Carriers in Strongly Quantum Confined Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Magic-Sized Clusters”, ACS Phys. Chem. Au, in press, 2024.
2. Yehan Zhang, A’Lester Allen, Zachary Petrek, Huan H. Cao, Devanshu Kumar, Melissa Goodlad,Vianna Martinez, Jasdip Singh, Jin Z. Zhang, and Tao Ye, “Organizing Gold Nanospheres into Linear Heterotrimeric Nanolenses by Hollow DNA Origami Cage”, JPCC, in press, 2024.
3. Xiaohui Liu, Chudong Chen, Yonghong Xiao, Xianli Li, Ke Xu, Jin Z. Zhang, and Binbin Luo, “Photocycloaddition of Zero-Dimensional Metal Halide Hybrids with Reversible Photochromism”, ACS AMI, in press, 2024.
4. Yi Zhong, Yanmei Feng, Shiqing Ma, Sijia Sun, Daimei Chen, Guocheng Lv, Hao Ding, Weibin Zhang, and Jin Zhong Zhang, “Ultrathin BiOCl-OV/CoAl-LDH Z-scheme Heterojunction for Efficient Photocatalytic Peroxymonosulfate Activation to Boost Co (IV)=O Generation”, Water Research, in press, 2024.
5. Vivien Cherrette, Kai-Chun Chou, David Zeitz, Melissa Guarino-Hotz, Mariam Khvichia, Jeremy Barnett, Allison Win, Finn Babbe, and Jin Z. Zhang, “Ultrafast Charge Carrier Dynamics of CH3NH3PbBr3 Perovskite Nanoclusters”, JPCL, 15, 5177-5182, 2024.
6. Jing Li, Qiulian Luo, Jianwu Wei, Liya Zhou, Peican Chen, Binbin Luo, Qi Panga, Jin Zhong Zhang, “Circularly Polarized Luminescence Induced by Hydrogen-Bonding Networks in a One-Dimensional Hybrid Manganese(II) Chloride”, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., in press, 2024.
7. Allison A. Win, Kai-Chun Chou, David C. Zeitz, Jin Z. Zhang, “Origin of the near 400 nm Absorption and Emission Band in the Synthesis of Cesium Lead Bromide Nanostructures: Metal Halide Molecular Clusters Rather Than Perovskite Magic-Sized Clusters”, JPCL, 14, 116-121, 2023.
8. Heng Zhang, Evan Vickers, Samuel Erickson, Melissa Guarino-Hotz, Jeremy Barnett, Sayantani Ghosh, Jin Z. Zhang, “Synthesis and Properties of Stable Metal Halide Molecular Clusters in Solid State", JPCL, 13, 10543-10549, 2022.
9. Yuanjie Chen, Ruosheng Zeng, Qilin Wei, Shuai Zhang, Yu Wang, Canxu Chen, Xiaoshan Zhu, Sheng Cao, Bingsuo Zou, and Jin Zhong Zhang, “Competitive Energy Transfer-Modulated Dual Emission in Mn2+-Doped Cs2NaTbCl6 Rare-Earth Double Perovskites”, JPCL, 13, 8529-8536, 2022.
10. Melissa Guarino-Hotz, Jeremy L. Barnett, Liem Pham, Allison Win, Vivien L. Cherrette, and Jin Z. Zhang, “Tuning Between Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Magic Sized Clusters and Quantum Dots through Ligand Assisted Reprecipitation at Elevated Temperatures”, JPCC, 28, 13854-13862, 2022. (invited for H. Weller special issue).
