Hongcai "Joe" Zhou will join the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University as a full Professor in August of 2008. Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M in 2000 under the direction of the late Professor F. A. Cotton. He then spent two years at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Richard Holm, before joining the faculty of Miami University. Professor Zhou's awards include a Research Innovation Award from Research Corporation, an NSF CAREER Award, a Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation, the Miami University Distinguished Scholar - Young Investigator Award, and the 2007 Faculty Excellence Award from Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Professor Zhou has demonstrated outstanding creativity in the design of metal-organic framework (MOF) materials. For industrial gas separation—and possibly for hydrogen storage—MOFs are one of the most promising new classes of "designer" microporous materials to be developed in the past 20 years.
To learn more about the research being carried out in Dr. Zhou's group, go to http://www.chem/tamu/edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=1888