Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus

zhongfangchen@gmail.com.
+1(787)764-0000 ext. 3119

PUBLICATIONS (see the publication-list for details)

  • 148 publications, including Chem. Rev. (3), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (14), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (7) and Phys. Rev. Lett. (2).
  • 49 first-authored, 63 correspondence-authored, total citation number over 3600, h-index 32.
  • Nine papers were highlighted by news media (Chem. & Eng. News and/or Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Nature China); eight were highlighted as cover pictures of scientific journals (ChemPhysChem, J. Comput. Chem., J. Phys. Chem. A, J. Phys. Chem. C., PCCP, J. Chem. Theory Comput.), one as the frontispiece (Chem. Eur. J.); one article was featured by Nature Chemistry; Two articles in Chem. Rev. were ranked as “hot paper”, “most-cited” or “most-accessed article” by ACS publications. 

News and Highlights

Current Main Research Topics

  • One-dimensional nanomaterials (nanotubes, nanocables, peapods, etc)
  • Novel materials for hydrogen and lithium storage
  • Endohedral metallofullerenes and related endohedral clusters
  • Molecules with novel bonding patterns
    • Planar hypercoordinate carbon and other elements
    • Novel aromaticity
RESEARCH TOPICS BEING DEVELOPED
  • Toxicity prediction of nanomaterials
  • Photocatalysis and fuel cell