James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Our work focuses on the design and application of what might best be called novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter dynamics. The heart of the work is chemical physics, and most of what we do is ultrafast laser spectroscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance. It generally involves an intimate mixture of theory and experiment: recent publications are roughly an equal mix of pencil- and-paper theory, computer calculations with our workstations, and experiments. Collaborations also play an important role, particularly for medical applications.
Appointments and Affiliations
- James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Radiology
- Professor of Physics
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Contact Information
- Office Location: 2217 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-1604
- Email Address: warren.warren@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- M.S. University of California - Berkeley, 1979
- Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley, 1980
Courses Taught
- CHEM 210D: Modern Applications of Chemical Principles
- CHEM 393: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 394: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 493: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 494: Research Independent Study
- PHYSICS 141D: General Physics I (DIS)
- PHYSICS 141L: General Physics I
- PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
- PHYSICS 590: Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics
In the News
- Duke Professor Warren Warren Wins Award for Magnetic Resonance (Mar 2, 2020)
- Warren S. Warren Wins Optical Society Award (Aug 17, 2018)
- MRI Tags Stick to Molecules with Chemical Velcro (Mar 13, 2018 | Duke Research …
- The Optical Society Recognizes Duke Professor Warren S. Warren (Feb 9, 2018)
- Duke Professor Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry (May 9, 2017)
- New class of molecular 'lightbulbs' illuminate MRI (Mar 28, 2016 | Science Dail…
- New Class of Molecular ‘Lightbulbs’ Illuminate MRI (Mar 23, 2016)
- A New Way of Looking at Melanomas and Renaissance Paintings (May 5, 2015)
- Duke chemist develops 3-D imaging process to examine paintings (Feb 3, 2014 | T…
- Laser looks under the surface of art (Jan 23, 2014 | Nature)
- Shooting Lasers at Priceless Art (Jan 22, 2014)
- Art under a new wavelength (Oct 18, 2013 | UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Science Now…
- Duke discovers that laser can be used to examine art without causing damage (Ju…
Representative Publications
- Yu, Jin, Zhongguo Li, Charles Kolodziej, Seher Kuyuldar, Warren S. Warren, Clemens Burda, and Martin C. Fischer. “Visualizing the impact of chloride addition on the microscopic carrier dynamics of MAPbI3 thin films using femtosecond transient absorption microscopy.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 151, no. 23 (December 21, 2019): 234710–234710. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5127875.
- Lindale, Jacob R., Christian P. N. Tanner, Shannon L. Eriksson, and Warren S. Warren. “Decoupled LIGHT-SABRE variants allow hyperpolarization of asymmetric SABRE systems at an arbitrary field.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) 307 (October 2019): 106577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2019.106577.
- Tanner, Christian P. N., Jacob R. Lindale, Shannon L. Eriksson, Zijian Zhou, Johannes F. P. Colell, Thomas Theis, and Warren S. Warren. “Selective hyperpolarization of heteronuclear singlet states via pulsed microtesla SABRE.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 151, no. 4 (July 2019): 044201. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108644.