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About Our Group:

We design, build and exploit new types of instruments that provide qualitatively new pictures of how chemical reactions occur. By coupling mass-selective vibrational spectroscopy with cryogenic ion processing, we are able to study a wide variety of chemical phenomena, including small molecule activation, gas-liquid interfacial chemistry, and intracluster hydrogen bonding.

News

Nan Yang Selected as Finalist for the APS 2022 Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics

January 20, 2022
Nan Yang is selected as a finalist for the APS 2022 Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics! The top three will battle it out with talks describing...

Group Alum Awarded Flygare Lecture

January 19, 2022
Hearty congratulations to group alum Joe Fournier, now Asst. Prof. at Wash. U. St. Louis, who was awarded one of the prestigious “Flygare” lectures at the International...

Evan Perez is Guest Speaker at Commonwealth Charter Academy

January 18, 2022
On January 13, Evan Perez paid a virtual visit to the seventh grade class at Commonwealth Charter Academy, a Pennsylvania Cyber School.  He discussed what scientists do as...
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Selected Publications:

Deconstructing Water’s Diffuse OH Stretching Vibrational Spectrum with Cold Clusters
Science, Vol. 364, (6437), (2019) pp. 275-278, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.aaw4086

Spectroscopic Snapshots of the Proton-transfer Mechanism in Water
Science, Vol. 354, (6316), (2016) pp. 1131-1135, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.aaf8425

Capture of CO2 by a Cationic NiI Complex in the Gas Phase and Characterization of the Bound Activated CO2 Molecule through Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., Vol. 55, (4), (2016) pp. 1282-1285, DOI Link: 10.1002/anie.201507965

Vibrational spectral signature of the proton defect in the three-dimensional H+(H2O)21 cluster
Science, Vol. 344, (6187), (2014) pp. 1009-1012, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.1253788

Modes of Activation of Organometallic Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water and C-H Oxidation
Inorg. Chem., Vol. 53, (1), (2014) pp. 423-433, DOI Link: 10.1021/ic402390t