Hongyi grew up in Beijing, China. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2018. During his undergraduate research, Hongyi worked on synthesizing organic semiconducting polymers, as well as fabricating and characterizing organic field-effect transistors. He joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago in the fall of 2018 and is now co-advised by Professor Stuart Rowan and Professor Shrayesh Patel.
Hongyi's research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric systems for energy storage applications.
Thiadiazole Disulfide Cross-Linked Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Nanoparticles: A Dual Redox Approach for Organic Cathode Batteries
Hongyi Zhang, Garrett L. Grocke, George Rose, Stuart J. Rowan, Shrayesh N. Patel. Chemistry of Materials. 2024. Article ASAP.
Organo-disulfide-based particles enable controlled stimulus-triggered cleaning of electrode surfaces
Hongyi Zhang, Garrett L. Grocke, Samuel S. Kopfinger, Yilin Wang, Arnav Brahmasandra, Randy H. Ewoldt, Stuart J. Rowan, Shrayesh N. Patel. RSC Appl. Polym., 2024, Advance Article.
Synthesis and Characterization of Redox-Responsive Disulfide Cross-Linked Polymer Particles for Energy Storage Applications
Garrett L. Grocke, Hongyi Zhang, Samuel S. Kopfinger, Shrayesh N. Patel, and Stuart J. Rowan. ACS Macro Letters 2021 10 (12), 1637-1642