1. Supramolecular coordination complexes and their applications in cell imaging, chemo-sensors and light-emitting materials

2. Self-healing supramolecular materials;

3. Light-harvesting supramolecular materials

08/2017—now

Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University; Professor.

07/2015–07/2017

Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US; Postdoctoral Research Fellow

08/2013–06/2015

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; Postdoctoral Research Fellow

09/2012–08/2013

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Postdoctoral Research Fellow

09/2007–06/2012

Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; PhD

09/2003 – 06/2007

Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Bachelor

 
1. 2011, Zhejiang University First-Class Award of Honor for Graduate Student, Triple A Graduate Student, Donggang Scholarship

2. 2007, Zhejiang University Outstanding Dissertation for Undergraduate
 students
3. 2004 Zhejiang University Third-Class Award of Honor for Undergraduate Student

1. Zhang, M.; Yin, S.;* Zhang, J.; Zhou, Z.; Saha, M. L.; Lu, C.; Stang, P. J.* “Metallacycle-Cored Supramolecular Assemblies with Tunable Fluorescence Including White-Light Emission” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2017, 114, 3044.(ESI highly cited paper, hot paper)

2. Zhang, M.;* Li, S.; Yan, X.; Zhou, Z.; Saha, M. L.; Wang, Y.;* Stang, P. J.* “Fluorescent Metallacycle-Cored Polymers via Covalent Linkage and Their Use as Contrast Agents for Cell Imaging” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci .USA 2016, 113, 11100. 

3. Zhang, M.;* Saha, M. L.;* Wang, M.; Zhou, Z.; Song, B.; Lu, C.; Yan, X.; Li, X.; Huang, F.; Yin, S.;* Stang, P. J.* “Multicomponent Platinum(II) Cages with Tunable Fluorescence Emission and Amino Acid Sensing” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 5067.

4. Zhang, M.; Yan, X.; Huang, F.*; Niu, Z.; Gibson, H. W.* “Stimuli-Responsive Host–Guest Systems Based on the Recognition of Cryptands by Organic Guests” Acc. Chem. Res.2014, 47, 1995. (ACS Editors' Choice Article, ESI highly cited paper)

5. Zhang, M.; Xu, D.; Yan, X.; Chen, J.; Dong, S.; Zheng, B.; Huang, F.* “Self-Healing Supramolecular Gels Formed by Crown Ether-Based Host-Guest Interactions” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7011 (ESI highly cited paper).