Design and synthesis of new porous materials like metal-oragnic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks and porous organic cages; application of porous materials in energy storage, gas separation and other fields.

• Porphyrin boxes: rationally designed porous organic cages
  S. Hong, M. Rohman, J. Jia, Y. Kim, D. Moon, Y. Kim, Y.H. Ko, E. Lee, K. Kim
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54 (45), 13241-13244, (2015)
• A highly porous medical metal–organic framework constructed from bioactive curcumin
  H. Su, F. Sun, J. Jia, H. He, A. Wang, G. Zhu
  Chem. Comm., 51 (26), 5774-5777, (2015)
• The adsorption and simulated separation of light hydrocarbons in iso-reticular MOFs based on dendritic ligands with different aliphatic side-chains
  J. Jia, L. Wang, F. Sun, X. Jing, Z. Bian, L. Gao, R. Krishna, and G. Zhu
  Chem. Eur. J., 29, 9073-80, (2014)
• Trigonal prism or octahedron: the conformational change of a dendritic six-node ligand in MOFs
  J. Jia, F. Sun, H. Ma, L. Wang, K. Cai, Z. Bian, L. Gao and G. Zhu
  J. Mater. Chem. A,1, 10112-10115, (2013)
• Highly porous and robust ionic MOFs with nia topology constructed by connecting an octahedral ligand and a trigonal prismatic metal cluster
  J. Jia, F. Sun, T. Borjigin, H. Ren, T. Zhang, Z. Bian, L. Gao and G. Zhu
  Chem. Commun., 48, 6010-6012, (2012)
• A novel low density metal–organic framework with pcu topology by dendritic ligand
  J. Jia, F. Sun, Q. Fang, X. Liang, K. Cai, Z. Bian, H. Zhao, L.n Gao and G. Zhu
  Chem. Commun., 47, 9167-9169, (2011)

• Ph.D., Chemistry, Jilin University, China, 2014

• 2015 – Present: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• 2014 – 2015: Postdoctoral fellow, IBS-CSC in POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• National Scholarship for Ph.D., 2012
• Evonik Scholarships, 2013
• Outstanding Ph.D. of Jilin University, 2014