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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
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Feng Wang is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research program focuses on the development and application of computational methods for studying molecular systems, with an emphasis on the accuracy and efficiency of force fields and electronic structure calculations. Wang's work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling over $735,000.
His recent publications investigate the performance of different computational models for predicting molecular properties, including the hydration free energies of alcohols and amines, and the conformational distributions of polypeptides in water. He has also published on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, such as nickel phosphide-iron oxide core-shell structures for catalysis, and the thermal expansion coefficient of graphene. Wang's research network includes collaborators such as S. M. York and Raymond Weldon at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
With a career h-index of 29 and over 3,351 citations across 144 publications, Wang is recognized as a highly cited researcher. His work contributes to the fields of computational chemistry, materials science, and drug design.
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- h-index: 29
- Publications: 144
- Citations: 3,351
Selected Publications
- Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Nanoparticles: A Laboratory Experiment for Undergraduate Physical Chemistry (2025) DOI
- An Adaptive Force Matching Potential for Alanine Developed with Møller–Plesset Perturbation Theory and Smooth Fourier Transform Correction Map (2025) DOI
- Synthesis of Amorphous and Various Phase-Pure Nanoparticles of Nickel Phosphide with Uniform Sizes via a Trioctylphosphine-Mediated Pathway (2024) DOI
- Revealing Structural Evolution of Nickel Phosphide-Iron Oxide Core–Shell Nanocatalysts in Alkaline Medium for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (2024) DOI
- Simulation of Linear and Cyclic Alkanes with Second-Order Møller–Plesset Perturbation Theory through Adaptive Force Matching (2024) DOI
- Water Potential from Adaptive Force Matching for Ice and Liquid with Revised Dispersion Predicts Supercooled Liquid Anomalies in Good Agreement with Two Independent Experimental Fits (2024) DOI
- Simulating a flexible water model as rigid: Best practices and lessons learned (2023) DOI
- Dipole Cooperativity and Polarization Frustration Determine the Secondary Structure Distribution of Short Alanine Peptides in Water (2023) DOI
- Fragmentation Method for Computing Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics Gradients for Force Matching: Validation with Hydration Free Energy Predictions Using Adaptive Force Matching (2022) DOI
- Performing Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Computing Hydration Free Energies on the B3LYP-D3(BJ) Potential Energy Surface with Adaptive Force Matching: A Benchmark Study with Seven Alcohols and One Amine (2021) DOI
- A comparison of three DFT exchange–correlation functionals and two basis sets for the prediction of the conformation distribution of hydrated polyglycine (2021) DOI
- Real-Time Imaging of Laser-Induced Nanowelding of Silver Nanoparticles in Solution (2021) DOI
- Determining the hydration free energies of selected small molecules with MP2 and local MP2 through adaptive force matching (2021) DOI
- Study of Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Graphene via Raman Micro‐Spectroscopy: Revisited (2021) DOI
- Development and Validation of a DFT-Based Force Field for a Hydrated Homoalanine Polypeptide (2021) DOI
Federal Grants 2 $735,107 total
Efficient and Accurate Force Fields for Computer-Aided Drug Design
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