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Faculty + Staff

Meng
Zhou
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Meng Zhou received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2008. He studied the C–H functionalization reactions catalyzed by organometallic iridium complexes with Robert Crabtree at Yale University (Ph.D.) and later with Alan Goldman at Rutgers University (Postdoc). He then investigated the acetate-stabilized cobalt(II,III) oxide nanoparticles with Richard Finke at the Colorado State University.

Since 2016, he has been an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at Lawrence Technological University, where his research focuses on nanomaterials and catalysis relevant to CO2 utilization and the sustainable production of industrial chemicals. He supervises undergraduate students conducting research in a regular, collegewide curriculum supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence initiative. He is the editor and a chapter author of an ACS Symposium Series book, Catalysis by Metal Complexes and Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications.

Research publications with undergraduate students (underscored):

  1. Hanson, D. S.; Wang, Y.; Zhou, X.; Washburn, E.; Ekmekci, M. B.; Dennis, D.; Paripati, A.; Xiao, D.; Zhou, M. Catalytic Urea Synthesis from Ammonium Carbamate Using a Copper(II) Complex: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60 (8), 5573-5589. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03467
  2. Zhou, X. and Zhou, M. Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Stabilized Iridium Nanoparticles Catalyzed the Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene Using Formic Acid as the Source of Hydrogen. Chemistry 2020, 2 (4), 960-968. DOI: org/10.3390/chemistry2040061

Additional research publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ri1K2FMAAAAJ&hl=en

Published course materials:

CUREnet: https://serc.carleton.edu/curenet/institutes/misc/examples/221476.html

VIPER-IONIC: https://www.ionicviper.org/resources/search?keys=meng+zhou

The book:

ACS: https://pubs.acs.org/isbn/9780841234376
OUP: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/catalysis-by-metal-complexes-and-nanomaterials-9780841234376
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Catalysis-Metal-Complexes-Nanomaterials-Fundamentals/dp/084123437X/

 

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.