Prof. Huang of Purdue University and the Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center assumes the role of Deputy Editor as of November 1, 2026.
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) is pleased to announce that Professor Libai Huang (Purdue University) has been appointed as Deputy Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (JPC C).
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, led by Editor-in-Chief Joan-Emma Shea (UC Santa Barbara) is divided by topic area into The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, each of which are led by a Deputy Editor.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C publishes experimental, theoretical and computational research on the physical chemistry of nano, low-dimensional and bulk materials; chemical transformations at interfaces; and energy conversion and storage.
Prof. Huang, previously an Executive Editor at the journal, officially assumes the role of Deputy Editor on November 1, 2026. Prof. Huang succeeds Gregory V. Hartland in the position, who led the journal from 2020–2026 and has recently been announced as the next Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
“I’m excited to serve as Deputy Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and to strengthen its role as a journal where fundamental physical chemistry provides new insights into important problems in complex materials,” said Huang. “I see JPC C as an intellectual bridge connecting communities that study very different materials but often share the same fundamental physical questions.”
Libai Huang is the Tarpo Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University and Director of the Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC), a U.S. Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Rochester and was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory and a Principal Investigator at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory before joining Purdue University in 2014.
Professor Huang’s research focuses on understanding how the dynamics and interactions of excitons, charge carriers, and phonons give rise to the properties of molecular and quantum materials. Her group develops ultrafast optical microscopy and spectroscopy to visualize nonequilibrium transport, many-body interactions, and quantum dynamics across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
