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faculty
Wei-Shun Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Contact
508-999-8247
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Education
| 2007 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD |
| 1998 | National Taiwan University | MS |
| 1996 | National Taiwan University | BS |
Teaching
- CHM 315 Physical Chemistry I
- CHM 318 Physical Chemical Measurements I
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Students will integrate knowledge that they have gained throughout the major and the University Studies curriculum to perform a capstone research project. This will include a lecture component on presenting data in addition to the major laboratory research focus.
Students will integrate knowledge that they have gained throughout the major and the University Studies curriculum to perform a capstone research project. This will include a lecture component on presenting data in addition to the major laboratory research focus.
An advanced treatment of special topics in chemistry with an emphasis on recent developments. The subject matter varies from year to year.
Original chemical research and preparation of thesis. Required for Plan A master's degree. Graded P/F.
Original chemical research and preparation of thesis. Required for Plan A master's degree. Graded P/F.
Research
Research awards
- $ 151,080 awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH for CD spectropolarimeter to enhance research and education activities at UMass Dartmouth
- $ 190,405 awarded by National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: Harnessing the chirality matching principle for enhanced catalytic reactivity
- $ 358,432 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST IV: Active Optical Camouflage with Internal Communications
- $ 351,682 awarded by National Science Foundation for Single-Molecule Specific Voltammetry: Quantifying Reaction Products of Electrocatalysis at Single Particle Level
- $ 399,666 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST I: Advances in Underwater Marine Technology: New Solutions to Biofouling
Research
Research interests
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
- Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
- Chiral metamaterials
- Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development
Wei-Shun Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UMass Dartmouth. He obtained BS and MS in Chemistry from National Taiwan University in 1996 and 1998, respective. After working in the semiconductor industry for a few years, he studied the electro-optical properties of conjugated polymer supervised by Prof. Paul Barbara in the University of Texas at Austin and received Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry in 2007. He joined Link group at Rice University in 2007 as a postdoctoral researcher and promoted to a research fellow since 2012. He joined UMass Dartmouth in 2018. His research interest is to study optical properties of plasmonic nanomaterials at single particle level for the applications of renewable energy, optical sensing, and medical treatment. He has developed steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic techniques to investigate collective optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles, plasmon-mediated chemistry, chiral plasmonics, and plasmon optomechanics. In the MUST program, he will develop high-sensitivity fluorescence imaging technique to probe the bacterial population in biofilm and explore novel nanomaterials to suppress the growth of biofilm.