Professor
Biography
Zi-Ling (Ben) Xue received his B.S. degree in 1982, majoring in physical chemistry and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1989. After a postdoctoral work in 1990-1992, he started his faculty appointment at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1992. Professor Xue is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and American Chemical Society (ACS). Dr. Xue has studied molecular magnetism, including spectroscopic investigations of single-molecule magnets (SMMs). SMMs may be used as new data storage materials with much larger capacities than the current digital media. In addition, SMMs are potential candidates for quantum computing. His group has used far-IR (or terahertz), Raman, inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) spectroscopies to probe magnetic transitions in SMMs and dynamics in the molecules.