Linlin Jensen

Professional Appointments and Affiliations

Associate Teaching Professor

Office

220C Whitmore Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802

Mailing Address

104 Chemistry Building

Education

B.S. Chemistry, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China (1999)

Ph. D Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2006)

Postdoctoral scholar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY (2007)

Honors and Awards

Opportunity Grant, Penn State Faculty Affairs (2024) 

Priestley Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry (2024) 

Schreyer Institute Teaching Excellence Teaching Transformation and Innovation Grant (2023) 

C.I. Noll Award for Teaching Excellence, Eberly College of Science (2023) 

Teaching Innovation Award, Eberly College of Science (2023)

Selected Publications

L. L. Jensen, L. Jensen, An Atomistic Electrodynamics Model for Optical Properties of Silver Nanoclusters, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 15182-15190, 2009

L. L. Jensen, L. Jensen, Electrostatic Interaction Model for the Calculation of the Polarizability of Large Noble Metal Nanoclusters. J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 15697–15703, 2008, Featured on the cover.

L. L. Jensen, J. T. Muckerman, M. D. Newton, First-principles studies of the structural and electronic properties of the (Ga_1-xZn_x)(N_1-xO_x) solid solution photocatalyst, J. Phys. Chem. C, 3439-3446, 2008

L. Jensen, L. L. Zhao, G. C. Schatz, Size-Dependence of the Enhanced Raman Scattering of Pyridine Adsorbed on Ag_n (n =2 − 8, 20) Clusters. J. Phys. Chem. C., 111, 4756-4764, 2007

L. L. Zhao, L. Jensen, G. C. Schatz, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Pyrazine at the Junction Between Two Ag₂₀ Nan-oclusters, Nano Lett., 1229-1234, 2006

L. L. Zhao, L. Jensen, G. C. Schatz, Pyridine - Ag₂₀ Cluster: A Model System for Studying Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 2911-2919, 2006

L. L. Zhao, S. L. Zou, E. C. Hao, G. C. Schatz, Electrodynamics in computational chemistry. Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry: the First Forty Years, 47-65, 2005

C. L. Haynes, A. D. McFarland, L. L. Zhao, R. P. Van Duyne, G.C. Schatz, et. al. Nanoparticle optics: The importance of radiative dipole coupling in two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays. J. Phys. Chem. B., 107, 7337-7342, 2003

L. L. Zhao, K. L. Kelly, G.C. Schatz, The extinction spectra of silver nanoparticle arrays: Influence of array structure on plasmon resonance wavelength and width. J. Phys. Chem. B., 107, 7343-7350, 2003