Theoretical/Computational Chemistry 

      --- Method Development and Studies of Phenomena at Nanoscales

• Studies of transition metal clusters/nanoparticles.  (in detail)

• Studies of catalysis   (in detail)

• Studies of photon induced electron excitation and transfer (in detail)

• Development of theoretical tools  (in detail)   

Research Progress 2 (August 2009)

Research Progress (August 2006)

Selected Most Recent Publications:

• T. Lin, W. Zhang, and L. Wang,  "The Theoretical calculation of separation factors for boron isotopic exchange between BF₃ and BF₃·C₆H₅OCH₃ " J. Phys. Chem. A 113(2009)7267-7274 .

• L. Xiao and L. Wang,  "The Methane activation on Pt and Pt₄: A density functional theory study" J. Phys. Chem. B 111(2007)1657-1663 .

• T. Pawluk, L. Xiao, J. Yukna, and L. Wang,  "The impact of PES on MD results of the coalescence of M₂ + M with M = Ir, Pt, Au, Ag" J. Chem. Theory Comput. 3(2007)328-335.

• M. E. McCarrol, Y. Shi, S. Harris, S. Puli, I. Kimaru, R. Xu, L. Wang, and D. J. Dyer,  "Computational prediction and experimental evaluation of a photoinduced electron transfer sensor " J. Phys. Chem. B 110(2006)22991-22994 .

Complete publications

Biosketch:

Lichang Wang received her B. ChE. and M. ChE. in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1993 from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1993-1994), University of Cambridge, U.K. (1994-1998), University College London, U. K. (1996-1997), and The Ohio State University (1998-2001) before joining the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2001.

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