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Welcome, Prof. Benjamin McDonald!

Ben will be joining the Chemistry Department in September 2021!

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Congratulations Class of 2021

The Department of Chemistry graduating class of 2021!

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Prof. Rubenstein selected as 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced the selection of 16 Camille Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholars for 2021.

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Prof. Ou Chen receives 2021 Research Achievement Award

Prof. Ou Chen's research has gained wide attention for developing novel materials, including nanocrystals.

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Congratulations Akil Hamsath!

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Prof. Weber: 2020 Top 50 Physics Articles

2020 Top 50 Physics Articles and one of them by Professor Peter Weber!

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Smashing!

Professor Ou Chen and his group have found a method for smashing individual metal nanoclusters, creating metals that are up to four times harder than naturally occurring structures.

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Coolest Molecule

The LS Wang Group discover the Boron likely makes a quadruple bond, not a triple bond, as previously thought. The abstract can be found here.

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Prof. Lai-Sheng Wang wins National ACS Award

Professor Lai-Sheng Wang wins the prestigious E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, sponsored by the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry.

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Resources for Incoming Chemistry Students

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Graduate Program

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Undergraduate Study & Research

Undergraduate concentrations in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Physics, with research opportunities across the disciplines.

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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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Recent News

Prof. Rubenstein selected as 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

May 3, 2021
Professor Brenda Rubenstein has been selected as a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. Those awarded are within the first five years of their academic careers, have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000. A list of the 2021 awardees can be found here.

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Congratulations Joseph Cavanaugh, Goldwater Scholarship recipient!

May 3, 2021
Joseph Cavanaugh '22, (Wang Group) has been named one of roughly 400 national Goldwater Scholars for his academic excellence and undergraduate research achievements. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-13/goldwater

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Prof. Ou Chen receives Research Achievement Award

April 12, 2021
Brown University awarded a Research Achievement Award to Prof. Ou Chen. The Research Achievement Awards honor extraordinary scholars for their research across a wide range of academic disciplines. Prof. Chen's research showed that special nanoparticle building blocks can assemble themselves into a quasicrystalline lattice, an ordered structure with no discernible repeating pattern and exotic symmetries.

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Recent Publications

Wang Group

"Expanded Inverse-Sandwich Complexes of Lanthanum Borides: La2B10– and La2B11–" Z. Y.Jiang, T. T. Chen, W. J. Chen, W. L. Li, J. Li, and L. S. Wang J. Phys. Chem. A 2021 125 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c01149

Rubenstein Group

"Leveraging Autocatalytic Reactions for Chemical Domain Image Classification" Christopher Arcadia, Amanda Dombroski, Kady Oakley, Shui Ling Chen, Hokchhay Tann, Christopher Rose, Eunsuk Kim, Sherief Reda, Brenda Rubenstein, Jacob Rosenstein Chemical Science 2021 10.1039/D0SC05860B

Chen Lab

"Thick-Shell CdSe/ZnS/CdZnS/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots for Quantitative Immunoassays" Y. Lv, Y. Yuan, N. Hu, N. Jin, D. Xu, R. Wu, H. Shen, O. Chen* and L. Li* ACS Applied Nano Materials 2021 4 10.1021

Chen Lab

"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

Diebold Group

"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

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