Jing Zhao

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

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Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 2008-2012
• Ph.D Northwestern University, 2008
• B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 2003

Research Focus

• Characterize the optical and structural properties of nanoparticles at the single particle level;
• Understand the interaction between various materials, eg. exciton-plasmon interaction between colloidal quantum dots and noble metal nanoparticles; iii)
• Functionalize the nanoparticles and to control and optimize their properties for biological sensing and imaging, and energy related applications.
• Tools used include single particle/molecule spectroscopy, time-resolved fluorescence, Raman scattering, plasmonics, nanofabrication, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, etc.

Publications

Gao Tuo, Yongchen Wang, Kan Fu, Chengwu Zhang, Zachariah A. Pittman, Jing Zhao and Brian G. Willis, Lab-made Chemiresitor Array for Discrimination of Coffee at Different Conditions, 2019 IEEE SENSORS, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, 1-4.

Qiuchen Dong, Xudong Wang, Haomin Liu, Heejeong Ryu, Jing Zhao, Baikun Li and Yu Lei, Heterogeneous Iridium Oxide/Gold Nanocluster for Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensing and pH Probing, Eng. Sci., 2019, 8, 46-53.

Hua Zhu, Tong Cai, Yucheng Yuan, Xudong Wang, Yasutaka Nagaoka, Jing Zhao, Zhenxian Liu, Ruipeng Li, and Ou Chen. Pressure-Induced Transformations of Three-Component Heterostructural Nanocrystals with CdS-Au2S Janus Nanoparticles as Hosts and Small Au Nanoparticles as Satellites. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019, 2, 11, 6804-6808.

Xudong Wang, Emily A. Seelen, Nashaat M. Mazrui, Peter Kerns, Steven L. Suib, Jing Zhao, and Robert P. Mason. The interaction of mercury and methylmercury with chalcogenide nanoparticles. Environmental Pollution 2019, 255, 113346.

Tuo Gao, Yongchen Wang, Chengwu Zhang, Zachariah A. Pittman, Alexandra M. Oliveira, Kan Fu, Jing Zhao, Ranjan Srivastava, and Brian G. Willis, Classification of Tea Aromas Using Multi-Nanoparticle Based Chemiresistor Arrays, Sensors, 2019, 19, 2547.

Dong, Qiuchen, Xudong Wang, William S. Willis, Donghui Song, Yikun Huang, Jing Zhao, Baikun Li, and Yu Lei, Nitrogen-doped Hollow Co3O4 Nanofibers for both Solid-state pH Sensing and Improved Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensing. Electroanalysis 2019, 31, 678-687.

Xudong Wang, Shutang Chen, Sravan Thota, Yongchen Wang, Haiyan Tan, Min Tang, Zewei Quan, and Jing Zhao, Anisotropic Arm Growth in Unconventional Semiconductor CdSe/CdS Nanotetrapod Synthesis Using Core/Shell CdSe/CdS as Seeds, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2019, 123, 19238-19245.

Xiaotong Wu, Xiaokun Fan, Zhen Yin, Yanjun Liu, Jing Zhao and Zewei Quan, Ordered mesoporous silver superstructures with SERS hot spots, Chem. Comm., 2019, 55, 7982-7985.

Terianna J. Wax and Jing Zhao, Optical features of hybrid molecular/biological-quantum dot systems governed by energy transfer processes, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 6512-6526.

H. Zhu, Z, Fan, L. Yu, M. A. Wilson, Y. Nagaoka, D. Eggert, C. Cao, Y. Liu, Z. Wei, X. Wang, J. He, J. Zhao, R. Li, Z. Wang, M. Gruenwald and O. Chen. Controlling Nanoparticle Orientations in Self-Assembly of ‘Patchy’ Quantum Dot-Gold Heterostructural Nanocrystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 6013-6021.

Yongchen Wang, Shutang Chen, Xudong Wang, Adam Rosen, William Beatrez, Lukasz Sztaberek, Haiyan Tan, Liang Zhang, Christopher Koenigsmann, Jing Zhao, Composition-Dependent Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Pt-Surfaced PtNi Dodecahedral Nanoframes, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 1, 768-776.