Lichang Wang | Chemistry and Biochemistry| SIU

Lichang Wang

Professor and Director of Graduate Study

The Wang research group is currently interested in: (1) the study of electron excitation and transfer processes for solar cell materials, photodynamic therapy photosensitizers, fluorescence sensors, and other optoelectronic devices; (2) the study of transition metal nanoparticles to understand their catalytic activities for oxygen reduction reaction, hydrogen production from methane and ethanol, and complete oxidation of ethanol as well as their formation and toxicity; (3) the assessment of various functionals in Density Functional Theory (DFT) in describing accurately electronic and optical properties of materials and the development of pragmatic techniques to improve the accuracy of DFT in describing electron excitation processes.

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 1985
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, 1988
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Copenhagen,1993
Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, 1993-1994
Postdoc, University of Cambridge, 1994-1998
Postdoc, University College London, 1996-1997
Postdoc, The Ohio State University, 1998-2001

Selected Recent Publications

Ruitao Wu and Lichang Wang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25(2023)2190-2202: “Insight into the solvent effects on ethanol oxidation on Ir(100)”

Ruitao Wu and Lichang Wang, ChemPhysChem (2022)e202200132-13pgs: “Insights and Activation Energy Surface of the Dehydrogenation of C₂H_xO Species in Ethanol Oxidation Reaction on Ir(100)”.

Ruitao Wu and Lichang Wang, J. Phys. Chem. C 126(2022)21650-21666: “Activity Enhancement of PtIr Catalysts for Complete Ethanol Oxidation Reaction by Tuning C−O Coupling Abilities”.

Krishanthi C. Weerasinghe, Tianyang Wang, Junpeng Zhuang, Haiya Sun, Dongzhi Liu, Wei Li, Wenping Hu, Xueqin Zhou, Lichang Wang, Chem. Phys. Impact 4(2022)100062-8pgs: “Coherently degenerate state engineering of organic small molecule materials to generate Wannier excitons”.

Tianyang Wang, Haiya Sun, Linli Zhang, Nathan D. Colley, Chelsea N. Bridgmohan, Dongzhi Liu, Wenping Hu, Wei Li, Xueqin Zhou, Lichang Wang, Dyes Pigm. 139(2017)601-610: “Effect of photo-induced charge separated state lifetimes in donor-acceptor1-acceptor2 organic ambipolar semiconductors on their photovoltaic performances”.