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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, 408
Telephone: 617-552-3116
Email: jier.huang@bc.edu
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.
1. SantaLucia, D. J.; Hu, W.; Wang, D.; Huang, J.*; Berry, J. F.* “Postsynthetic Treatment of ZIF-67 with 5-Methyltetrazole: Evolution from Pseudo-Td to Pseudo-Oh Symmetry and Collapse of Magnetic Ordering”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2022, 61, 6056-6062.
2. Fiankor, C.; Nyakuchena, J.; Khoo, R.; Zhang, X.; Hu, Y.; Yang, S.; Huang, J.;* Zhang, J.* “Symmetry-Guided Synthesis of N,N’-Bicarbazole and Porphyrin-Based Mixed-Ligand Metal-Organic Frameworks: Light Harvesting and Energy Transfer”, ”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20411-20418.
3. Yang, S.; Streater, D.; Fiankor, C.; Zhang, J.; Huang, J.* “Conjugation and Aggregation Directed Design of Covalent Organic Frameworks as White Light-Emitting Diode”, 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.* “Direct Evidence of Photoinduced Charge Transport Mechanism in 2D Conductive Metal Organic Frameworks”, 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”, 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.*, “Tuning Internal Strain in Metal-Organic Frameworks via Vapor Phase Infiltration for CO2 ܳپDz”, 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.* “2D Covalent Organic Frameworks as Intrinsic Photocatalysts for Visible Light Driven CO2 ܳپDz”, 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.* “Donor-Acceptor Fluorophores for Energy Transfer Mediated Photocatalysis”,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.* “Exceptionally Long-Lived Charge Separated State in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework: Implication for Photocatalytic Applications”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 8072-8075.