Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Research Professor of Chemistry
·
2018 - Present
Chemistry,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
The Properties of Current Induced Chiral Phonons Recapitulate the Characteristics of the CISS Effect.
Journal article The journal of physical chemistry letters · May 2026 Chiral phonons, with their intrinsic angular momentum, are potential contributors to the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, which can induce significant spin polarization in the absence of strong spin-orbit coupling. An open question is how non ... Full text CiteSources of non-Arrhenius electron transport in bacterial nanowires.
Journal article Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · April 2026 Electron transport in biological redox chains typically follows an Arrhenius law, with rates and conductivities that increase with temperature. Surprisingly, bacterial nanowires show anti-Arrhenius transport. We simulated electron transport in a one-dimens ... Full text CiteTheories of Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity: A Pedagogical Overview.
Journal article Annual review of physical chemistry · April 2026 The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect refers to electron transport through chiral (often organic) molecules becoming spin-polarized, without external magnetic fields. While widely observed experimentally, a comprehensive theoretical understandi ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Mapping of Electron Tunneling Pathways in Proteins
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 1993 - 2028Elucidating Interplays of Chirality and Spin in Chiral Assemblies
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2023 - 2028Electron Bifurcation Theory
ResearchResearcher · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2020 - 2028View All Grants
Education
Emory University ·
2005
Ph.D.
Peking University (China) ·
1999
M.S.
Zhengzhou University (China) ·
1996
B.S.