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Education / Biography

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Georgetown University, 2012-2017

B.S. in Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2008-2012

Research Interests

• Genome Function Annotation:
  Combine (i) computational genomic analysis, (ii) 3D structure prediction and computational docking, (iii) machine learning, and (iv) cell-free protein expression to understand domains of unknown function in both model organisms and in uncultured microorganisms from environmental communities.
• Mercury Chemistry:
  Using quantum mechanics to understand at the molecular scale how mercury interacts with and is transformed by the species it encounters in natural and contaminated environments.

Publications 

• Sigma- versus Pi- Dimerization Modes of Triangulene Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 6140.
• Pancake Bonding in π‐Stacked Trimers in a Salt of Tetrachloroquinone Anion Molčanov, K.; Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M.; Kojić-Prodić, B.; Stalke, D.; Demeshko, S.; Šantić, A.; Stilinović, V. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 8292.
• Probing semiconductivity in crystals of stable semiquinone radicals: organic salts of 5,6-dichloro-2,3-dicyanosemiquinone (DDQ) radical anions Molčanov, K.; Stalke, D.; Šantić, A.; Demeshko, S.; Stilinović, V.; Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M.; Kojić-Prodić, B.  CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 1862.
• Cethrene: The Chameleon of Woodward–Hoffmann Rules Solomek, T.; Ravat, P.; Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M.; Juricek, M. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 4769 
• Pancake Bond Orders of a Series of π-Stacked Triangulene Radicals Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017. 56, 10188. (Hot Paper)
• Validation of density functionals for pancake-bonded π-dimers; dispersion is not enough Mou, Z.; Tian, Y-h.; Kertesz, M. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017. 19, 24761.
• Fluxional σ-Bonds of the 2,5,8-Trimethylphenalenyl Dimer: Direct Observation of the Sixfold σ-Bond Shift via a π-Dimer Uchida, K.; Mou, Z.; Kertesz, M.; Kubo, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4665. (JACS Spotlight)
• Hetero‐π‐Dimers of Phenalenyls Mou, Z.; Kubo, T.; Kertesz, M. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18230. (Hot Paper)|
• Evidence of σ- and π-Dimerization in a Series of Phenalenyls Mou, Z.; Uchida, K.; Kubo, T.; Kertesz, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 18009.
• 3D graphene–Fe₃O₄ nanocomposites with high-performance microwave absorption Hu, C.; Mou, Z. (co-first); Lu, G.; Chen, N.; Dong, Z.; Hu, M.; Qu, L. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 13038.