Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus

zhongfangchen@gmail.com.
1-787-552-6811    

PUBLICATIONS (see the publication-list for details)

  • 100 publications, including Chem. Rev. (3), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (10), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (6) and Phys. Rev. Lett. (1). 
  • 49 first-authored, 35 correspondence-authored, total citation number 1664, h-index 24.
  • Five papers were highlighted by news media (Chem. & Eng. News and/or Nachrichten aus der Chemie); four were highlighted as cover pictures of scientific journals (ChemPhysChem, J. Comput. Chem., J. Phys. Chem. A, J. Phys. Chem. C.); Two articles in Chem. Rev. were ranked as “hot paper”, “most-cited” or “most-accessed article” by ACS publications.

News and Highlights

Current Main Research Topics

  • One-dimensional nanomaterials (nanotubes, nanocables, peapods, etc)
  • Novel materials for hydrogen and lithium storage
  • Endohedral metallofullerenes and related endohedral clusters
  • Molecules with novel bonding patterns
    • Planar hypercoordinate carbon and other elements
    • Novel aromaticity
RESEARCH TOPICS BEING DEVELOPED
  • Toxicity prediction of nanomaterials
  • Photocatalysis and fuel cell