题　目：Computational Explorations of Carbon Graphene and its Inorganic Cousins

报告人：Dr. Zhongfang Chen

单　位：Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico (UPR)

时　间：6月29日（周五）14:00-15:00

地　点：李薰楼468会议室

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Abstract: The unique properties of carbon nanographene and nanoribbons endow graphene-based materials many applications. Such planar structures are not limited to carbon, the inorganic nanographenes and nanoribbons also exhibit many intriguing properties. Here we will present our recent efforts in exploring the intrinsic properties and applications of both carbon and inorganic nanographene and nanoribbons by means of density functional computations.

Dr. Zhongfang Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rio Piedras campus, USA. His lab is performing computations on a broad range of nanomaterials, investigating their intrinsic properties, designing new materials with desired properties, and studying their effects to environment and human health. The systems under his investigation include, but are not limited to, one-dimensional nanomaterials (nanotubes, nanocables, peapods, etc), carbon and inorganic nanographenes, nanocatalysts, novel materials for hydrogen and lithium storage, endohedral metallofullerenes and related endohedral clusters, and molecules with novel bonding patterns.

Dr. Chen has delivered over 100 lectures around the world, and contributed over 150 papers, including three in Chem. Rev., and over 20 in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Phys. Rev. Lett.. Nine papers of his were highlighted by professional journals (Chem. & Eng. News and/or Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Nature China, Nature Chemistry).