Prof. George Schatz presents a summary of tools that were developed by his group at Northwestern University and are used in teaching chemistry:

• DDSCAT
• QC-Lab
• Nanosphere Optics Lab
• PNP Cyclic Peptide Ion Channel Model
• Nanosphere Optics Lab Field Simulator
• Transpull
• Molpull
• NUITNS: Northwestern University Initiative for Teaching Nanoscience

George C. Schatz is Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clarkson University and a Ph. D at Caltech. He was a postdoc at MIT, and has been at Northwestern since 1976.

Schatz has published three books and over 1000 papers. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry from 2005 to 2019. Awards include Sloan and Dreyfus Fellowships, the Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon, the Max Planck Research Award, the Bourke Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Ver Steeg Fellowship of Northwestern University, the Feynman Prize of the Foresight Institute, the Herschbach Medal, the Debye and Langmuir Awards of the ACS, the S F Boys-A Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2014 Hirschfelder Award of the University of Wisconsin, the 2014 Mulliken Medal of the University of Chicago, and the 2019 Ahmed Zewail Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society and of the AAAS. He was honored in the George C. Schatz Festschrift of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol 113, 2009. In 2010 he appeared on the Times Higher Education list of Top 100 Chemists of the Past Decade, and has been on the Thompson-Reuters / Clarivate Analytics list of highly cited researchers since 2014.

Schatz is a theoretician who studies the optical, structural and thermal properties of nanomaterials, including plasmonic nanoparticles, DNA and peptide nanostructures, and carbon-based materials, with applications in chemical and biological sensing, electronic and biological materials, high performance fibers, and solar energy. His past work has also been concerned with understanding the dynamics of chemical reactions in the gas phase and in gas-surface collisions.

53^rd Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• George C. Schatz (2023), "A Summary of Chemistry Teaching Tools on nanoHUB Developed at Northwestern University," https://nanohub.org/resources/37687.

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1. chemistry
2. computational chemistry
3. NCN Group - Chemistry
4. QC-Lab
5. quantum chemistry