Education:
Ph.D. Chemistry, expected Spring 2010 (September 2005 - present)
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California
M.S. Chemistry, expected Summer 2006 (September 2003 - August 2006)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach, California
B.S. Food Science and Engineering (September 1998 – June 2002)
Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Current Research Interests:
Electrochemical studies of nitrosyl and nitroxyl complexes of heme proteins using novel electrodes.
Publications:
Chen, L. & Bu, X. (2006). (3,4)-Connected zincophosphites as structural Analogs of Zinc Hydrogenphosphate. Inorganic Chemistry, 45, 4654-4660.
Chen, L. & Bu, X. (2006). Histidine-Controlled Two-Dimensional Assembly of Zinc Phosphite Four-Ring Units. Chemistry of Materials, 18, 1857-1860.
Zheng, N.; Bu, X.; Lu, H.; Chen, L. and Feng, P. (2005). One-Dimensional Assembly of Chalcogenide Nanoclusters with Bifunctional Covalent Linkers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 14990-14991
Other Interests/Hobbies:
Ooh….. Cooking, swimming, camping, basketball; Jazz, New Age music; Sci-Fi, Animation movies and TV series (a big fan of “Star Trek: TNG”)
