Surface Chemistry

Harvard: Astrochemistry

Employing chemical processing (electrons and ultraviolet) to experimentally understand how complex organic molecules form and are stable on interstellar ice analogs

PNNL: Vapor and particle detection of explosive materials

Used ion mobility spectrometry to test new thin film coatings for improved detection of trace explosives.

UChicago: Chemical Simulants

Destruction of nerve agent simulants.

UChicago: Gas-Surface Dynamics

Using supersonic molecular beams and time-resolved FT-RAIR Spectroscopy under ultra-high vacuum to examine how impinging molecules adsorb, react, or diffuse into frozen ice films.