Principle Investigator
Chenfeng Ke
Associate Professor
Chenfeng.Ke@dartmouth.edu
Office: Burke 114 Phone: 603-646-6967
Ph.D. in Supramolecular Chemistry, Nankai University, China
2009 with Yu Liu
Visiting Ph.D. in Photochemistry, Osaka University, Japan
2007-2008 with Yoshihisa Inoue
BSc in Chemistry, Nankai University, 2004
Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, 2022-present
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 2015-2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2011-2015
with Sir Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Laureate 2016)
Newton Fellow (The Royal Society, UK) University of Bristol, 2009-2011
with Anthony Davis
Google Scholar Page CV Academic family tree THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST
Selected Awards
- Susan and Gib Myers 1964 Faculty Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2022
- Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, Dartmouth College, 2022
- American Chemical Society PMSE Young Investigator Award, 2021
- Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry, 2020
- Beckman Young Investigator Award, 2019, the Beckman Foundation
- CAREER award, 2019, the National Science Foundation
- Cottrell Scholar award, 2019, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2018, Dartmouth College
- Burke Research Award, 2015, Dartmouth College
- Newton International Fellowship 2009-2011 from Royal Society in the UK
- The Gold Prize of The Nagai Poster Award, The 5th Asian Cyclodextrin Conference 2009
- Ph.D. Thesis Award of Nankai University, 2009
Postdocs
Jayanta Samanta
Research Associate (7.2019-present) Jayanta.Samanta@dartmouth.edu Ph. D. CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India 2018 Adviser: Ramalingam Natarajan M.S. and B. Sc. Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, India 2012 Research interests: development of HcOF materials Chem., 2021; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021; Chem., 2022 Acc. Mater. Res., 2022 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022 |
Dan Zheng
Research Associate (12.2021-present) Dan.zheng@dartmouth.edu Ph. D. Beijing Normal University, 2021 Research interests: development of 3D-printing hydrogels 
Krishanu Samanta
Research Associate (3.2022-present) Krishanu.Samanta@dartmouth.edu Ph. D. CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India 2022 Adviser: Ramalingam Natarajan |
Graduate Students
Miao Tang Graduate Student (class of 2017) Miao.Tang.GR@dartmouth.edu BS, Peking University, 2017. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019 Chem. Eur. J., 2019 Polym. Chem., 2020, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021 Chem, 2021 Matter, 2021 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021 |
Mingshi Zhang Graduate Student (class of 2018) Mingshi.Zhang.GR @dartmouth.edu BS, Nankai University, 2017. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019; Cryst. Growth Des. 2022 Acc. Mater. Res., 2022 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022 |
Yunjia Zhang Graduate Student (class of 2020) BS, Fudan University, 2020. formal visiting undergraduate student, Ke group, 2019 Acc. Mater. Res., 2022 
Fangzhou Li Graduate Student (class of 2022) BEng, Central South University, 2020 MEng, Johns Hopkins University, 2022 |
Zhuoran Zhong Graduate Student (class of 2020) BS, Fudan University, 2020. 
Zhou Deng Graduate Student (class of 2022) BS, Nankai University, 2020. |
Undergraduate Students
 Undergraduate Student
Mary Ma Undergraduate Student Dartmouth College, Class of 2024 Hometown: Chengdu,China. Mary is an intern participating in research through the Women in Science Project (WISP). She is majoring in Chemistry.  Undergraduate Student
Aila Owens Undergraduate Student Dartmouth College, Class of 2025 Hometown: Oakland, CA. Aila is a pre-med student interested in majoring in Biological Chemistry. |
 Undergraduate Student
Caleb Liu Undergraduate Student Dartmouth College, Class of 2024 Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Caleb is interested in supramolecular and materials chemistry, he is majoring in chemistry and history. |