Theoretical/Computational Chemistry 

      --- Method Development and Studies of Phenomena at Nanoscales

• Studies of transition metal nanoparticles.  (in detail)

• Investigation on the Hydrogen bonding network in self assembled monolayers (SAMs) (in detail)

• Studies of enzymes as catalysts   (in detail)

• Development of theoretical tools  (in detail)   

Research Progress (August 2006)

Selected Most Recent Publications:

• 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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