Publications at UTK (†equal contribution; *corresponding authors)
2025
19. X. Wu, R.J. Somerville, A. Bodi,* R.C. Turnell-Ritson, Z. Zhang, J. Romano-deGea, J.C. Schmidt, P. Hemberger,* P. Dyson*. Unveiling the roles of Pt and CeO2 during solvent-free amide hydrogenation utilizing operando photoelectron photoionization coincidence spectroscopy. ACS Catal. 2025, In press.
18. Z. Zhang, A. Nabera, G. Guillén-Gosálbez, J. Pérez-Ramírez*. Rekindling the use of acetylene as a chemical building block. Nat. Chem. Eng. 2025, 2, 99. (cover)
Selected publications prior to UTK
2024
17. Z. Zhang†, M. Vanni†, X. Wu, P. Hemberger*, A. Bodi*, Sharon Mitchell, J. Pérez-Ramírez*. CO cofeeding affects product distribution in CH3Cl coupling over ZSM-5 zeolite: pressure twists the plot. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202401060.
16. Z. Zhang†, Q. Li†, X. Wu, C. Bourmaud, Dion Vlachos*, J. Luterbacher*, A. Bodi*, P. Hemberger*. A solution for 4-propylguaiacol hydrodeoxygenation without ring saturation. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 6330.
15. Y. Lu, F. Lin, Z. Zhang, C. Thompson, Y. Zhu, N. Doudin, L. Kovarik, C.E. García Vargas, D. Jiang, J.L. Fulton, Y. Wu, O.Y. Gutierrez, F. Gao, Z. Dohnálek, A.M. Karim, H. Wang*, Y. Wang*. Enhancing activity and stability of Pd-on-TiO2 single-atom catalyst for low-temperature CO oxidation through in situ local environment tailoring. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 28141.
2023
14. Z. Zhang†, J. Tian†, Y. Lu, S. Yang, D. Jiang, W. Huang, Y. Li, J. Hong, A. Hoffman, S. Bare, M. H. Engelhard, A. K. Datye, Y. Wang*. Memory-dictated dynamics of single-atom Pt on CeO2 for CO oxidation. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 2664.
13. Z. Zhang†, J. Tian†, X. Wu, I. Surin, J. Pérez-Ramírez*, P. Hemberger*, A. Bodi*. Unraveling radical and oxygenate routes in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over boron nitride. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7910 (Cover)
12. Z. Pan, A. Puente-Urbina, S.R. Batool, A. Bodi, X. Wu, Z. Zhang, J.A. van Bokhoven*, P. Hemberger*. Tuning the zeolite acidity enables selectivity control by suppressing ketene formation in lignin catalytic pyrolysis. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 4512.
2022
11. X. Wu†, Z. Zhang†, Z. Pan, X. Zhou, A. Bodi, P. Hemberger*. Ketenes in the induction of the methanol-to-olefins process. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202207777. (Frontispiece)
10. Z. Zhang†, J. Tian†, Y. Lu†, X. Gou, J. Li, W. Hu, W. Lin, R. S. Kim, J. Fu*. Exceptional selectivity to olefins in the deoxygenation of fatty acids over an intermetallic platinum-zinc alloy. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202202017.
9. W. Lin†, H. Chen†, G. Lin†, S. Yao, Z. Zhang, J. Qi, M. Jing, W. Song, J. Li, X. Liu, J. Fu*, S. Dai. Creating frustrated lewis pairs in defective boron carbon nitride for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202207807.
2021
8. Z. Zhang, S. Yao, X. Hu, F. Okejiri, K. He, P. Liu, Z. Tian, V.P. Dravid, J. Fu*, X. Zhu*, S. Dai*. Sacrificial synthesis of supported Ru single atoms and clusters on N-doped carbon derived from covalent triazine frameworks: a charge modulation approach. Adv. Sci. 2021, 2001493.
7. Y. Lu, Z. Zhang, H. Wang*, Y. Wang*. Toward efficient single-atom catalysts for renewable fuels and chemicals production from biomass and CO2. Appl. Catal. B-Environ. 2021, 292, 120162.
2020
6. H. Xu, Z. Zhang, J. Liu, C. Do-Thanh, H. Chen, S. Xu, Q. Lin, Y. Jiao, J. Wang, Y. Wang*, Y. Chen*, S. Dai*. Intrinsically stable single-atom Pd catalysts via high-entropy fluorite oxide supports. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 3908.
5. Z. Zhang†, M. Jing†, H. Chen†, F. Okejiri, J. Liu, Y. Leng, H. Liu, W. Song, Z. Hou, X. Lu, J. Fu*, J. Liu*. Hydrogenation of fatty acids on Cu/ZrO2: demystifying the role of carrier structure and metal-support interface. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 9098.
Before 2019
4. Z. Zhang, J. A. Schott, M. Liu, H. Chen, X. Lu, B. G. Sumpter, J. Fu*, S. Dai*. Prediction of carbon dioxide adsorption of porous carbon via deep learning. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 259.
3. Y. Yan†, Z. Zhang†, S.-M. Bak, S. Yao, X. Hu, Z. Shadike, C.-L. Do-Thanh, F. Zhang, H. Chen, X. Lyu, K. Chen, Y. Zhu, X. Lu, P. Ouyang, J. Fu*, S. Dai*. Confinement of ultrasmall cobalt oxide clusters within Silicalite-1 crystals for efficient conversion of fructose into methyl lactate. ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 1923. (Cover)
2. Z. Zhang†, S. Yao†, C. Wang, M. Liu, F. Zhang, X. Hu, H. Chen, X. Gou, K. Chen, Y. Zhu, X. Lu, P. Ouyang, J. Fu*. CuZnCoOx multifunctional catalyst for in situ hydrogenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural with ethanol as hydrogen carrier. J. Catal. 2019, 373, 314.
1. Z. Zhang, Q. Yang, H. Chen, K. Chen, X. Lu, P. Ouyang, J. Fu*, J. G. Chen*. In-situ hydrogenation and decarboxylation of oleic acid into heptadecane over a Cu-Ni alloy catalyst using methanol as hydrogen carrier. Green Chem. 2018, 20, 197.
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