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Paper featured in the 2018 PCCP HOT Articles Themed Collection of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Our paper in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics has been selected by the handling editors/referees to appear in the 2018 PCCP HOT Articles Themed Collection of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics as a “hottest work published in PCCP.” Congratulations Niranjan!

Cover picture featured in the event banner for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Molecular Foundry User Meeting.

The Molecular Foundry is a nanoscience research facility that provides visiting researchers (“users”) with access to cutting-edge expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. The annual User Meeting conference focuses on frontier research topics of interest to that community of users, providing a forum to disseminate results and exchange ideas, and bringing together leading...

Postdoctoral Associate Chao Lian joins the Wong group. 

Chao joins us from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Welcome, Chao!

Paper featured on the front cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Our paper in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics is featured as the cover picture for the July 21, 2018 issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Issue 27) and can be read here. Congratulations Niranjan!

Prof. Wong receives 450,000 supercomputer hours from the Department of Energy (DOE).

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science, is one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research. The Wong Group has received computing time to use the Cori and Edison supercomputers at Lawrence Berkeley National...

Graduate student Sharmistha Bardhan joins the Wong group.

Sharmistha joins us from the University of California, Riverside. Welcome, Sharmistha!

Graduate student Jose Rodriguez Borbon joins the Wong group.

Jose joins us from the University of Memphis. Welcome, Jose!

Graduate student Khanh Do joins the Wong group.

Khanh joins us from the University of California, Berkeley. Welcome, Khanh!

Paper published in Aerosol Science and Technology. 

Our collaborative work with the Smith Group at the University of California, Irvine and the Barsanti Group at the University of California, Riverside has just been accepted in the special issue of Aerosol Science and Technology in honor of Peter McMurry! The paper is entitled “Size Resolved Chemical Composition of Nanoparticles from Reactions of Sulfuric...

Prof. Wong receives 49,141 GPU and 66,816 CPU supercomputer hours from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), supported by the National Science Foundation, is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. The Wong Group has received computing time to use the Comet supercomputer at The University of California, San Diego.

Prof. Wong receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) makes broad investments in basic and applied research that will increase fundamental knowledge, foster opportunities for breakthroughs and provide technology options for future naval capabilities and systems. Our proposal is entitled “A Rational Approach for Designing Lightweight, Energy-Efficient Components for Advanced Naval Materials.” Congratulations Prof. Wong!

Prof. Wong gives an invited talk at Colorado School of Mines. 

Prof. Wong will be giving an invited presentation at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The presentation is entitled “Real-Time Density Functional Tight Binding: A New Computational Tool for Probing Electronic Properties of Large Chemical Systems” to be given in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.

Paper published in Macromolecules.

Our collaborative work with the Boudoruis Group at Purdue University and the Azoulay Group at the University of Southern Mississippi has just been accepted in Macromolecules! The paper is entitled “Thermoelectric Performance of an Open-Shell Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymer Doped with a Radical-Containing Small Molecule” and can be read here. Congratulations Anshuman!

Prof. Wong receives funding from the UC Riverside Collaborative Seed Grant Program.

The UC Riverside Collaborative Seed Grant Program provides internal funding for UC Riverside faculty teams to collaborate and publish in advance of proposing multi-investigator projects and centers to external agencies. Serving as a catalyst for UC Riverside faculty to form new teams, the seed grant program is intended to initiate new intellectual directions for faculty...

Perspective article published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 

Our perspective article has just been accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics! The paper is entitled “Is a Cross-β-sheet Structure of Low Molecular Weight Peptides Necessary for the Formation of Fibrils and Peptide Hydrogels?” and can be read here. Congratulations Niranjan!

Paper published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 

Our work has just been accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! The paper is entitled “Correlating Li +-Solvation Structure and its Electrochemical Reaction Kinetics with Sulfur in Subnano Confinement” and can be read here. Congratulations Lihua and Fredy!

Paper published in RSC Advances.

Our collaborative work with the Venkataraman group at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has just been accepted in RSC Advances! The paper is entitled “Persistent Radical Anion Polymers Based on Naphthalenediimide and a Vinylene Spacer” and can be read here. Congratulations to everyone!

Prof. Wong receives tenure.

Prof. Wong was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective 07/01/2018). Congratulations Prof. Wong!

Wong group gives 5 presentations at the 2018 APS March Meeting. 

The Wong group will be giving 5 presentations at the 2018 APS March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. The 1st presentation is entitled “Unraveling Excitation Energy Transfer Mechanisms in Plasmonic nanoantennas” to be given in Nanostructures and Metamaterials 3. The 2nd presentation is entitled “Large-Scale DFT Calculations for the Discovery of Novel Nanotubes” to be...

Prof. Wong gives 2 presentations at the 2018 ACS Spring National Meeting & Exposition. 

Prof. Wong will be giving 2 presentations at the 2018 ACS Spring National Meeting & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 1st presentation is entitled “Inconsistencies in the Electronic Properties of Phosphorene Nanotubes: New Insights from Large-Scale DFT Calculations” to be given in COMP: Material Science. The 2nd presentation is an invited talk entitled “Polarizabilities...