1． Design and Synthesis of functional porous materials（e.g. MOFs，COFs，HOFs, Cages）for energy gas storage, gas separation

2． Fabrication membrane or thin film for separation, fuel cell.

3． Fabrication of smart materials to mimic muscles, motors.

4.    drug cocrystal and polymorph

2002-2006 Nankai University, College of Chemistry,B.S

2006-2009 Nankai University, College of Chemistry,M.S

2010-2014 University of South Florida, Department of Chemistry, PH.D

2014-2016 University of California, San Diego,Postdoc

2016-now Nankai University, Professor

A total of ~200 papers were published in the past five years, ~100 papers published as corresponding authors: Nat. Chem. (1), Nat. Sustain. (1), Nat. Protoc. (2), Nat. Rev. Chem. (1), Chem (3), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (13), Angew. Chem. Int Ed. (24), Nat. Commun.(4), CCS Chem.(2),ACS Cent. Sci. (2), ACS Catal. (2), J. Mater. Chem. A (2),  ACS Mater. Lett. (5), Acc. Chem. Res. (1), Chem. Soc. Rev. (1), Coord. Chem. Rev. (3) etc. The paper was cited by scientists in more than 65 countries (>10000 times) and 12 papers were selected for highly cited papers. 

Selected Publications:

(1) Wang, Zhifang; Zhang, Yushu; Liu, Jinjin; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Flux synthesis of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks, Nature Protocols, 2024, 19: 3489- 3519

(2) Li, Shengxu; Xu, Shunqi; Lin, En; Wang, Tonghai; Yang, Haoyong; Han, Junyi; Zhao, Yuxiang; Xue, Qunji; Samori, Paolo; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Zhang, Tao*; Synthesis of single-crystalline sp2-carbon-linked covalent organic frameworks through imine-to-olefin transformation, Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17: 226-232 

(3) Wang, Meidi; Zhang, Penghui; Liang, Xu; Zhao, Junyi; Liu, Yawei; Cao, Yu; Wang, Hongjian; Chen, Yu; Zhang, Zhiming; Pan, Fusheng*; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Jiang, Zhongyi*; Ultrafast Seawater Desalination with Covalent Organic Framework Membranes, Nature Sustainability, 2022, 5: 518- 526 

(4) Wang, Zhifang; Zhang, Yushu; Wang, Ting; Hao, Liqin; Lin, En; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Organic flux synthesis of covalent organic frameworks, Chem, 2023, 9(8): 2178- 2193 

(5) Jin, Fazheng; Lin, En; Wang, Tonghai; Yan, Dong; Yang, Yi; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Rationally fabricating 3D porphyrinic covalent organic frameworks with scu topology as highly efficient photocatalysts, Chem, 2022, 8(11): 3064-3080 

(6) Xia  Li, Debobroto Sensharma, Leigh  Loots, Shubo Geng, Sousa  Javan  Nikkhah, En Lin, Vo lodymyr Bon,  Wansheng Liu, Zhifang Wang, Tao He, Soumya Mukherjee, Matthias Vandichel, Stefan Kaskel, Leonard J. Barbour, Zhenjie Zhang,*  Michael  J. Zaworotko*, Reversible Phase Transformations in a Double-Walled Diamondoid Coordination Network with a Stepped Isotherm for Methane, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 46, 27, 18387–18395. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c03555

(7) Geng, Shubo; Lin, En; Li, Xia; Liu, Wansheng; Wang, Ting; Wang, Zhifang; Sensharma, Debobroto; Darwish, Shaza; Andaloussi, Yassin H.; Pham, Tony; Cheng, Peng; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Chen, Yao; Zhang, Zhenjie* ; Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of Highly Robust Ethane-Selective Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Ethylene Purification, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143(23): 8654-8660 

(8) Wang, Zhifang; Zhang, Yushu; Lin, En; Geng, Shubo; Wang, Mengjin; Liu, Jinjin; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Kilogram-Scale Fabrication of a Robust Olefin-Linked Covalent Organic Framework for Separating Ethylene from a Ternary C2 Hydrocarbon Mixture, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145(39): 21483-21490 

(9) Jin, Fazheng; Lin, En; Wang, Ting; Geng, Shubo; Hao, Liqin; Zhu, Qianqian; Wang, Zhifang; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Rationally Fabricating Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks for Propyne/Propylene Separation, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144(50): 23081-23088 

(10) Wang, Sa; Fu, Yu; Wang, Fengdong; Wang, Xiyuan; Yang, Yi; Wang, Mengjin; Wang, Jian; Lin, En; Ma, Heping; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Scalable Melt Polymerization Synthesis of Covalent Organic Framework Films for Room Temperature Low-Concentration SO2 Detection, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146(49): 33509-33517 

(11) Yang, Yi; Lin, En; Wang, Sa; Wang, Ting; Wang, Zhifang; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Single-Crystal One-Dimensional Porous Ladder Covalent Polymers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146(1): 782-790 

(12) Jia, Shuping; Liu, Yujie; Hao, Liqin; Ni, Jiayu; Wang, Yanjie; Yang, Yi; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Chen, Li; Zhang, Zhenjie*; A General Group-Protection Synthesis Strategy to Fabricate Covalent Organic Framework Gels, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145(48): 26266-26278 

(13) Jin, Fazheng; Lin, En; Wang, Tonghai; Geng, Shubo; Wang, Ting; Liu, Wansheng; Xiong, Fanhao; Wang, Zhifang; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Bottom-Up Synthesis of 8- Connected Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks for Highly Efficient Ethylene/Ethane Separation, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144(12): 5643-5652 

(14) Wang, Kaiyuan; Qiao, Xueling; Ren, Hongxia; Chen, Yao; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Industrialization of Covalent Organic Frameworks, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147(10): 8063- 8082 

(15) Wang, Jiaxi; Zhu, Qianqian; Wang, Jixian; Wang, Ting; Xia, Wei; Lin, En; Wang, Kaiyuan; Hu, Heng; Wang, Tonghai; Wang, Zhifang; Hao, Liqin; Liu, Yujie; Jiao, Lifang; Cheng, Peng; Chen, Yao; Zhang, Zhenjie*; Self-Polycondensation Flux Synthesis of Ultrastable Olefin-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64(3): e202415208