Professor Prashant Jain has been named a senior editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, a publication of the American Chemical Society. The journal reports experimental, theoretical, and computational research on the physical chemistry of molecules, clusters, and aerosols.
Jain is G. L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of JACS and the Journal of Chemical Physics. Jain and his group experimentally and theoretically investigate nanoscale light-matter interactions. They confine light using nanostructures and use these concentrated photons for inducing novel chemical reactivity, powering the synthesis of fuels and chemicals, and deciphering how catalysts function at the atomic level. His laboratory has discovered plasmon resonances in quantum dots and new crystal phases that exist only on the nanoscale.