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, investigatingtheir intrinsic properties, designing new materials with desired properties,and studying their effects to environment and human health. The systems underhis investigation include, but are not limited to, one-dimensionalnanomaterials (nanotubes, nanocables, peapods, etc), carbon and inorganic nanographenes, nanocatalysts, novel materialsfor hydrogen and lithium storage, endohedral metallofullerenes and relatedendohedral 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).