He has received a Dreyfus New Faculty award, an NSF Career award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Paul Saltman Award and a CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award. at Stanford University, and conducted postdoctoral research in single-molecule biophysics at Harvard University. in chemistry from Nanjing University, China, in 1997, and his Ph.D. His group has also applied these techniques in bioinorganic chemistry, in particular on proteins that regulate the activity of metal ions in cells, a process important in cellular defense against toxins and possibly involved in Alzheimer’s disease.Ĭhen received his B.S.
Using dyes that fluoresce when a catalytic event occurs, Chen has discovered how the size and shape of particles affect their activity. Forming catalysts into nanoparticles – just a few nanometers, or billionths of a meter, in diameter – enhances chemical reactions by exposing more surface area, and is of particular interest in the development of fuel cells. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the recipient of the 2014 Coblentz Award, presented annually to an outstanding molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40 by the Coblentz Society, a nonprofit organization that fosters the understanding and application of vibrational spectroscopy, which uses the interaction of light with atoms to identify elements and study chemical reactions.Ĭhen’s group has pioneered the use of fluorescence microscopy to study nanoparticles of catalysts.
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