Profile of Professor Wenbin Lin

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Crystal engineering of NLO materials, rational design of chiral circular helicates, exploratory synthesis of chiral nanoporous materials and their applications in enantioselective catalysis and separations are all current research interests of Professor Wenbin Lin, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.��Graduating from the University of Scienceand Technology of China, Hefei, China, Lin then obtained his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA.�� After gaining experience at Brandeis, and then Northwestern University, Lin moved to Chapel Hill in July 2001, as an Assistant Professor.�� Since July 2003, Lin has been Associate Professor of Chemistry there.� ��Lin has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, more recent awards include the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2001 - 2006), the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award (2000 - 2003) and the Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award (2000 - 2002).�� Lin has recently demonstrated the rational design of intrinsically polar solids for application in second-order nonlinear optics using the molecular building block approach, allowing the prediction and control of the acentricity and chirality of solid state materials for the first time. The Lin group is currently extending this approach to the rational synthesis of chiral nanoporous materials which will potentially find applications in enantioselective catalysis and separations.� ��Lin is also interested in the study of self-assembly of discrete chiral circular helicates and metallodendrimers, and the evaluation of their use as chiral sensory materials.�