Graduate Research Highlights
Daoyang Zhang
PhD student in Dr. Cook's lab
My research interests are designing, synthesizing, and characterizing polynuclear metalloporphyrin or porphyrin derivatives complexes, and using these complexes for electrocatalysts for small molecule activation.
I enjoy being here because I like the research at UB.
Outside of the lab, I like to play DOTA 2 at my spare time.
- Crawley, M. R.; Zhang, D.; Cook, T. R., Electrocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide enabled by post-synthetic modification of a self-assembled porphyrin cube. Inorg. Chem. Front. 2023, 10, 316-324. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2QI02050E
- Zhang, D.; Crawley, M. R.; Fang, M.; Kyle, L. J.; Cook, T. R., The rigidity of self-assembled cofacial porphyrins influences selectivity and kinetics of oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. Dalton Transactions 2022, 51, 18373-18377. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT02724K
- Zhang, D.; Crawley, M. R.; Oldacre, A. N.; Kyle, L. J.; MacMillan, S. N.; Cook, T. R., Lowering the Symmetry of Cofacial Porphyrin Prisms for Selective Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 1766-1775. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01109
- Crawley, M. R.#; Zhang, D.#; Oldacre, A. N.; Beavers, C. M.; Friedman, A. E.; Cook, T. R. Tuning the Reactivity of Cofacial Porphyrin Prisms for Oxygen Reduction Using Modular Building Blocks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 1098– 1106. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c11895.# = these authors contributed equally.