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Laser Spectroscopy and Gas Phase Kinetics

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A successful run at the Advanced Light Source 

October 2023
                                           ALS 2023

Dr. Robert Georges and Ludovic Biennier From the University of Rennes visited the lab 

June 2023
                                            visitors

Talitha's long-awaited article on radical-radical chemistry 

March 2023
                                                JPCA2023

Patrick and Susith at the 13th US National Combustion Meeting 

March 2023
                                                        PatrickPatrick and Susith

Tadini's MD simulation study of heterogeneous chemistry was published in JPCA

January 2023
                                           JPCA Masaya and Goulay 2023

The OH + Cyclopentadiene paper was published in JPCA

November 2022
                                                    JPCA manuscript 2022

Congratulations Dr. Tadini Masaya for a very successful dissertation defense 

November 2022

                                   Dr. Masaya

Patrick teaching Freshman chemistry 

November 2022
                                                    Patrick teaching

Studying the oxidation of conjugated hydrocarbons at the ALS

October 2022
                                                    ALS October 2022

Networking at the 26th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena, Rennes, France

August 2022
                                                   Networking GK2022

Fabien contributed to two chapters of the Edited book about Uniform Supersonic Flows in Chemical Physics

June 2022

                                   Book CRESU

Congratulations Dr. James Lee for a very successful dissertation defense 

June 2022
                                             dissertation Lee

A collaborative study with Jaume I University published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry

February 2022
                   Andres et al.

NSF grant for the study of atmospheric aerosol oxidation

September 2021
                                       NSF aerosols

James analyzing data at the ALS

October 2021

                   James ALS

Kacee's CH + Cyclopentadiene paper was published in JPCA

August 2021
                           JPCA 2021

Congratulations Dr. Kacee Caster for a very successful dissertation defense 

July 2021
                                 Dr. Kacee Caster

Fabien visited the Astrochemistry team at the Institute of Physics of Rennes (France), studying low temperature dimerization reactions

May-July 2021
                                                                                       CRESU

Article published in the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 

July 2020

               Lee et al

Investigating radical oxidation at the ALS

February 2020
                              ALS 2020

Article published in Atmosphere

December 2019
Atmosphere title TOC Atmosphere

Another successful run at the ALS

November 2019
ALS2019 

Tadini giving a talk at SERMACS 2019

October 2019
Tadini SERMACS

Kacee, James, and Tadini were awarded a graduate student fellowship

August 2019
awarded a fellowship
     

A collaborative project with the University of Rennes was selected by the Thomas Jefferson Fund committee to be funded by the “Make Our Planet Great Again” Initiative 

July 2019
Face Fundation 

James giving his presentation at ICCK 2019 in Orléans

June 2019
James ICCK

Kacee's first first-author article was published in JPCA

June 2019
JPCA2019 Caster

Zach presenting at the National conference on Undergraduate Research

April 2019
Zach at NCUR

Zach at the ACS National meeting, with Dan Neumark from UCB

April 2019
Zach at ACS 2019

Night shifts at the synchrotron with Adam Trevitt from the University of Wollongong (Australia)

April 2019
ALS April 2019

Hanyu Fan successfully defended her dissertation

April 2019

Experimental and modeling investigation of the OH-initiated heterogeneous oxidation of semi-solid and aqueous saccharide aerosols

Fan dissertation 

Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

March 2019
JPCA2019 

Article published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

January 2019
PCCP 2019 
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Kacee and Olivier at the ALS discussing data

October 2018
Kacee & Olivier  Kacee & Olivier 

NSF grant for the study of resonance stabilized radicals 

August 2018
Goulay NSF     

Kacee presenting at the 25th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena in Lille, France

July 2018
KC GK2018     

Congratulations to Zach for the undergrade symposium poster prize 

July 2018
Zach     

Group lunch and new group picture

June 2018
group 2018   

Advanced Light Source 

May 2018
ALS2018

Tadini joined the group 

February 2018
Tadina

Group lunch

June 15th 2017
group members 2017

Kacee Caster presenting her poster at ICCK 2017 in Chicago

May 2017
KC at ICCK

Dr. Sebastien Le Picard visited the lab at WVU

April 10th 2017

SDLP

Dr. Juddha Thapa's Graduation

December 2016
JT Graduation
JT Graduation

Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

November 14th 2016
JPCA C atom

Congratulations to Dr. Juddha Thapa on successfully defending his dissertation

June 2016
JT laser
Reaction Kinetics of Hydroxyl Radical with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Precursors

Group lunch 2016

June 2016
Group members 2016

Perspective published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

February 3rd 2016
PCCP2016

Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

December 1st 2015
JPCL

Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

October 16th 2015
OHMGP

Final night at the Advanced Light Source synchroton, studying C(3P) reactions

October 15th 2015
ALSPIc

The high temperature pulsed fast flow has been assembled in the lab

October 5th 2015
Fast flow

Articles published in the Astrophysical Journal

September 15th 2015

ApJII ApJI


Article published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

August 25th 2015
PCCP2015

Studying C(3P) reactions at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron

October 2014
ALSkinetics
Sebastien Le Picard (Univ. Rennes), Jeremy Bourgalais (Univ. Rennes), Ranjith Kumar Abhinavam Kailasanathan (WVU), Fabien Goulay (WVU), and Michael Capron (Univ. Rennes)

Article published in Cellulose in collaboration with the Physics department

September 5th 2014
cellulose

Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

August 12th 2014
JPCS2014

Zimo at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron in Berkeley Ca

 November 22nd 2013
ZimoALS

ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant recipient (2013-2015)


The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries.

Dr. Ranjith Kumar AK has joined the lab

March 16th 2013
RK

The lasers finally arrived

July 2012
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Graveyard shift at the Advanced Light Source

May 2012
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