Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at Brown University

Research and teaching in Chemistry at Brown reflects Brown's innovative nature and is driven by the challenges of today's changing world. Discover how faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral fellows collaborate to pursue scholarship across chemical fields and the interface of chemistry with biology, medicine, physics, and engineering.

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Resources for incoming Chemistry students can be found here.

 

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Recent Publications

"Colloidal Assembly of Au–Quantum Dot–Au Sandwiched Nanostructures with Strong Plasmon–Exciton Coupling" Y. Luo, Y. Wang, M. Liu, H. Zhu, O. Chen, S. Zou, J. Zhao J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020
"Heterodyned photoacoustic effect generated by irradiation of single particles by two laser beams modulated at different frequencies" Yaqi Zhang, Wenyu Bai, Gerald J. Diebold Ultrasonics 2020 106 10.1016
"The Nature of the Chemical Bonding in 5d Transition-Metal Diatomic Borides MB (M = Ir, Pt, Au)" L. F. Cheung, G. S. Kocheril, J. Czekner, and L. S. Wang J. Phys. Chem. 2020 152 10.1063/5.0008484
"QMCPACK: Advances in the Development, Efficiency, and Application of Auxiliary Field and Real-Space Variational and Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo" P.R.C. Kent, A. Annaberdiyev, A. Benali, M. Chandler Bennett, E. J. Landinez Borda, P. Doak, H. Hao, K. D. Jordan, J. T. Kogel, I. Kylanpaa, J. Lee, Y. Luo, F. D. Malone, C. A. Melton, L. Mitas, M. A. Morales, E. Neuscamman, F. A. Reboredo, B. Rubenstei arXiv / Cornell University 2020 10.1063/5.0004860
"Comparison of the Base Excision and Direct Reversal Repair Pathways for Correcting 1, N6-Ethenoadenine in Strongly Positioned Nucleosome Core Particles" Caffrey P.J., Kher R., Bian K., Li D., Delaney S Chem. Res. Toxicol. / ACS Publications 2020
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