Wei-Shun Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Contact
508-999-8247
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Science & Engineering 317
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
Teaching
Courses
Experiments in physical chemistry designed to test established theoretical principles which have been introduced in CHM 315 and 316. The experiments provide the student with basic experience in obtaining precise physical measurements of chemical interest.
An advanced treatment of special topics in chemistry with an emphasis on recent developments. The subject matter varies from year to year.
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 B.S. and M.S. 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.
