Mang Zhang completed his Ph. D. in 2003. Mang studied two different catalytic systems. The first was aluminum chloride catalysis of the chlorination of toluene where he examined the effect of trace amounts of water upon the catalytic activity. The other was the high temperature water-gas shift, where he investigated the inhibition of the rate by carbon dioxide.

“Copper Promotion of High Temperature Shift,” J. S. Coleman, M. Zhang, R. M. Van Natter and C. R. F. Lund, Catalysis Today, 160, 191-197 (2011). [more info]

“A Computational Study of Aluminum Chloride Activation for Toluene Chlorination,” S. R. Spencer, M. Zhang and C. R. F. Lund, J. Phys. Chem. A, 107 (48), 10335-10345 (2003). [more info]

“An Experimental and Computational Study of Solvent Effects in Toluene Chlorination,” M. Zhang and C. R. F. Lund, J. Phys. Chem. A, 106 (43), 10294-10301 (2002). [more info]

“Role of Copper as a High Temperature Shift Promoter,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, November 8-13, 2009.

“The Role of Water in the Activation of Aluminum Chloride Halogenation Catalysts,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.

“Water-Gas Shift Kinetics over Iron Oxide Catalysts at Membrane Reactor Conditions,” 18^th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Cancun, June 2003.

“High Temperature Water-Gas Shift at Membrane Reactor Conditions,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 2002.

“Water-Gas Shift Kinetics over Modified Iron Oxide Catalysts at Membrane Reactor Conditions,” Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Meeting, Monroeville, PA, May 10, 2002.

“Water-Gas Shift over Promoted Iron Oxide,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, November 2001.

“Water-Gas Shift at Membrane Reactor Conditions,” University Coal Contractors Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 5, 2001.

“Uncatalyzed and AlCl₃-catalyzed chlorination of toluene,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.

Mang Zhang, “An Experimental Investigation of Promoted Iron Based Oxide for High Temperature Water Gas Shift Reaction Catalysts at Membrane Reactor Conditions and an Experimental and Computational Study of Solvent Effects in Toluene Chlorination,” Ph. D. Dissertation, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2003). [more info]