Graphene Chemistry - Theoretical Perspectives

Dr De-en Jiang, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Dr Jiang has been working on computational study of graphene since 2006. In the past five years, he has published 15 papers in this topic which have been cited over 340 times. He has also written two book chapters on graphene-related topics. Using computational methods, he demonstrated the chemical reactivity of graphene's zigzag edge and showed the critical size for the onset of magnetism in nanographenes. Together with his colleagues, he was also the first to show a proof of concept for the extraordinary gas-separating power of porous graphene.

Dr Zhongfang Chen, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
Dr Chen is a computational chemist and computational nanomaterials scientist. He has published over 140 papers or book chapters and his papers have been cited more than 3200 times, giving him an h-index of 31. Nine papers have been highlighted by news media (Chem. & Eng. News and/or Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Nature China) and one article was featured by Nature Chemistry. Dr Chen has been involved in research on carbon graphene and its non-carbon analogues since 2008, and has published around 20 papers in this field so far. He is investigating the intrinsic properties of pristine and functionalized carbon and non-carbon graphenes, and exploring their applications in nanoelectronics, nanocatalysis and nanosensors.