Yongmei Wang
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Memphis
United States of America
Biography
I moved to the University of Memphis in Fall 2003 as an Associate Professor. Before that I was in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for seven years as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor. Before that, I did postdoc research at two places, University of Akron with Prof. Wayne Mattice (end of 1990 to end of 1993), and at University of Houston with Prof. Raj Rajagopalan (from beginning of 1994 to 1996 Fall). It was in Akron that I fell in love with Macromolecules and that I began my computational studies of macromolecules (Thanks, Prof. Mattice for giving me a chance!). My Ph.D. degree was from University of Notre Dame where I did experimental work in fluorescence spectroscopy studies of energy transfer in spread monolayers.
Research Interest
Computational studies at the interface of macromolecular systems and nanomedicine, in particularly interested in the study of separation and characterization of macromolecules and nanoparticles; rational design of polymeric systems for gene and drug delivery; and plasmonic optical properties of metallic nanoparticles; and the use of nanoparticles in nanomedicines.
Publications
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Dependence of SERS enhancement on the chemical composition and structure of Ag/Au hybrid nanoparticles, Elise Chaffin, Ryan T. O Connor, James Barr, Xiaohua Huang, Yongmei Wang, J. Chem. Phys. 145, 054706
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Comparison of Critical Adsorption Points of Ring Polymers with Linear Polymers. Ziebarth J. D, Gardiner A. A, Wang Yongmei, Jeong, Y., Ahn, J. Jin, Y., Chang, Taihyun. Macromolecules 49, 8780-8788.
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Structural comparisons of PEI/DNA and PEI/siRNA complexes revealed with molecular dynamic simulations. Jesse Ziebarth, Dennis Kennetz, Nyles Walker, Yongmei Wang, J. Phys. Chem. B
