Feng Wang

Assistant Professor

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Office: SCI 501
Phone: 617-353-2082
Fax: 617-353-6466
E-mail: fengwang@bu.edu

Office hours: By Appointment

• B.S., Peking University 1998
• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2003
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah, 2003-2005

• 2002 Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
• 2001 IBM Graduate Student Award in Computational Chemistry, Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry, American Chemical Society

Funding

Petroleum Research Fund

National Science Foundation

• CH 651 - Quantum Chemistry I

• Multi-scale Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics of large systems at finite temperature using high accuracy force fields
• Systematic development of high accuracy force fields using a revised version of the force-matching procedure
• Problems of particular interest include ligand docking, mechanical properties of metal alloys and properties of methane clathrates at different temperature and pressure

• Wang Group Page

• "A Linear-Scaling Self-consistent Generalization of the Multi-state Empirical Valence Bond Method for Multiple Excess Protons in Aqueous Systems", F. Wang, and G. A. Voth, J. Chem. Phys.,122, 144105 (2005)
• "Calculation of the Photodetachment Cross Sections of Dipole-bound electrons from HCN- and HNC-", M. Sindelka, V. Spirko, P. Jungwirth, F. Wang, M. Sahasranaman, and K. D. Jordan, J. Chem. Phys., 121, 1824-1829 (2004)
• "Parallel Tempering Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Finite Temperature Behavior of (H2O)6-", F. Wang and K. D. Jordan, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 11645-11653 (2003)
• "Theory of Dipole-bound Anions", K. D. Jordan and F. Wang, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 54, 367-396 (2003)
• "Application of a Drude Model to the Binding of an Excess Electron to Small Water Clusters", F. Wang, K. D. Jordan, J. Chem. Phys., 116, 16, 6973-6981 (2002)
• "A Drude-model Approach to Dispersion Interactions in Dipole-bound Anions", F. Wang and K.D. Jordan, J. Chem. Phys., 114, 24, 10717 (2001)
• "Theoretical Calculations of Voltage-dependent STM Images of Acetylene on the Si(001)
  Surface", F. Wang, D. Sorescu and K. D. Jordan, J. Phys. Chem. B, 106,6, 1316-1321 (2002).