Professor Zhan Chen (faculty web page)

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Applied Physics Program
Biophysics Graduate Program

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai)
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (with Prof. Herbert L. Strauss)
M.S., Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (with Prof. Jingkui Liang)
B.S., Chemistry, Peking University

Dr. Xiaolin Lu

Polymer surfaces and interfaces, glass transitions, and spectroscopic characterization

Dr. Shannon Watt

Optimizing the orientation of conjugated polymers at interfaces to improve field effect transistor (FET) performance

Dr. Alexander Khmaladze

Interaction of nanocapsules with cells, FWM, CARS and Digital Holographic imaging

Dr. Xiaofeng Han

Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) spectroscopy, CARS microscopy, SFG

Dr. Pei Yang

SFG studies of membrane peptides and proteins

Cornelius Kristalyn

Physical Chemistry

Surface structures of anti-biofouling coatings and conductive polymers

Sarah Spanninga (joint with Prof. Martin)

Macromolecular Sciences and Engineering

Biosensing and conductive polymers

Andy Boughton (joint with Prof. Andricioaei)

Materials Chemistry

SFG and MD studies on the orientation of biomolecules at interfaces

Anne Vázquez

Physical Chemistry

SFG and MD studies of silane adhesion promoters at polymer interfaces

Chris Avery

Analytical Chemistry

SFG studies of antimicrobial peptide mimics and their interactions with cellular membranes

Khoi Nguyen

Physical Chemistry

Interactions of antimicrobial peptides with supported lipid bilayers

Stephanie Le Clair (joint with Prof. Ramamoorthy)

Analytical Chemistry

SFG, solution NMR and solid-state NMR studies on amyloidogenic peptides and their interactions with bilayers

Dawei Li

Visiting Graduate Student (Nanjin University, Department of Polymer Science)

Polymer/metal interfaces: Structure, adhesion, and surface plasmon enhancement

Ting Wang

Visiting Graduate Student (Southeast University, school of Biological Science and Medical Engineering)
Biomaterials and biomedicine/ drug delivery

Jesse (Chi) Zhang

Physical Chemistry
SFG Studies of Polymer Surface and Interface; CARS Imaging

Fujuan Liu

Visiting Graduate Student (Donghua University, College of Textiles)
Biomaterials design and tissue engineering scaffolds.

John King

Physical Chemistry
SFG studies of Beta-sheet peptide orientation

Bei Ding

Physical Chemistry
Interactions of peptides with lipid bilayers

Bradley Holden

Chemistry

Prof. Yingliang Liu

Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou (China)
Materials for biomedical and energy applications