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129
Citations
54552
World Ranking
352
National Ranking
157

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his outstanding and innovative contributions to the study of atomic clusters and his pioneering work on multiply charged anions
  • 1997 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lai-Sheng Wang is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry, with a significant focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Boron Compounds in Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry and Materials
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies

Lai-Sheng Wang has published in various scientific venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wang include:

  • Dao-Fu Yuan
  • Yue-Rou Zhang
  • Weijia Chen
  • Teng-Teng Chen
  • G. Stephen Kocheril

Selected recent papers by Lai-Sheng Wang feature research on nanoclusters, boron-based compounds, and metal-boron bonding, including:

  • "A Heteroleptic Gold Hydride Nanocluster for Efficient and Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Spherical trihedral metallo-borospherenes," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "B48: a bilayer boron cluster," 2021, Nanoscale
  • "Observation of Four-Fold Boron-Metal Bonds in RhB(BO-) and RhB," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Monovalent lanthanide(I) in borozene complexes," 2021, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Lai-Sheng Wang has received a number of recognitions, including fellowships from several organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2007
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2005
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2003, cited for outstanding contributions to atomic clusters and pioneering work on multiply charged anions
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997

Best Publications

  • Au20: A Tetrahedral Cluster

    Jun Li;Xi Li;Xi Li;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Observation of an all-boron fullerene.

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Ya-Fan Zhao;Wei-Li Li;Qiang Chen

  • Hydrocarbon analogues of boron clusters--planarity, aromaticity and antiaromaticity.

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Jun Li;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Planar hexagonal B 36 as a potential basis for extended single-atom layer boron sheets

    Zachary A. Piazza;Han-Shi Hu;Wei-Li Li;Ya-Fan Zhao

  • Observation of all-metal aromatic molecules.

    Xi Li;Xi Li;Aleksey E. Kuznetsov;Hai-Feng Zhang;Hai-Feng Zhang;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • On the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Small AuN- (N = 4−14) Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-Functional Study

    Hannu Häkkinen;Bokwon Yoon;Uzi Landman;Xi Li

  • All-Boron Aromatic Clusters as Potential New Inorganic Ligands and Building Blocks in Chemistry

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Role of water in electron-initiated processes and radical chemistry: issues and scientific advances.

    Bruce C Garrett;David A Dixon;Donald M Camaioni;Daniel M Chipman

  • All-Metal Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity

    Alexander I. Boldyrev;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Planar-to-tubular structural transition in boron clusters: B20 as the embryo of single-walled boron nanotubes.

    Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Satya S. Bulusu;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Soohaeng Yoo

  • Hepta‐ and Octacoordinate Boron in Molecular Wheels of Eight‐ and Nine‐Atom Boron Clusters: Observation and Confirmation

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Anastassia N. Alexandrova;K. Alexander Birch;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • Synthesis of the H-cluster framework of iron-only hydrogenase

    Cédric Tard;Xiaoming Liu;Saad K. Ibrahim;Maurizio Bruschi

  • Understanding boron through size-selected clusters: structure, chemical bonding, and fluxionality.

    Alina P. Sergeeva;Ivan A. Popov;Zachary A. Piazza;Wei-Li Li

  • A concentric planar doubly π-aromatic B19− cluster

    Wei Huang;Alina P. Sergeeva;Hua-Jin Zhai;Boris B. Averkiev

  • s - p Hybridization and Electron Shell Structures in Aluminum Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study

    Xi Li;Xi Li;Hongbin Wu;Hongbin Wu;Xue-Bin Wang;Xue-Bin Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Photoelectron spectroscopy of size‐selected transition metal clusters: Fe−n, n=3–24

    Lai‐Sheng Wang;Han‐Song Cheng;Jiawen Fan

  • Evidence of hollow golden cages

    Satya S. Bulusu;Xi Li;Lai-Sheng Wang;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Threshold photodetachment of cold C−60

    Lai-Sheng Wang;J. Conceicao;Changming Jin;R.E. Smalley

  • Experimental observation and confirmation of icosahedral W@Au12 and Mo@Au12 molecules.

    Xi Li;Boggavarapu Kiran;Jun Li;Hua-Jin Zhai

  • Structure of the Na x Cl x+1 - (x=1-4) clusters via ab initio genetic algorithm and photoelectron spectroscopy

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;You-Jun Fu;Xin Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua-Jin Zhai
Hua-Jin Zhai Shanxi University
Alexander I. Boldyrev
Alexander I. Boldyrev Utah State University
Xue-Bin Wang
Xue-Bin Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Xi Li
Xi Li Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Xiao Cheng Zeng
Xiao Cheng Zeng City University of Hong Kong
Xin Yang
Xin Yang Southern University of Science and Technology
Jun Li
Jun Li Tsinghua University
Anastassia N. Alexandrova
Anastassia N. Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles
David A. Dixon
David A. Dixon University of Alabama
Richard E. Smalley
Richard E. Smalley Rice University

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