Faculty with interests in Physical Chemistry

Faculty Member (photos)	Research interests
Elliot R. Bernstein	Structure and energy levels of isolated molecules, reactive intermediates, and ions; structure, energy levels, energy dynamics and reactions of isolated clusters; growth and fragmentation of gas phase clusters.
Ellen R. Fisher	Investigations of plasma generated radicals interacting with surfaces via laser induced fluorescence and resonant enhanced multiphoton ionization.
Marshal Fixman	Statistical mechanics, especially of polymers, dynamics of stiff chain molecules, helix-coil transition, dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions, excluded Volume effect, polyelectrolytes, lattice models of liquids.
Branka M. Ladanyi	Statistical mechanics applied to liquid structure and dynamics, solvent effects on chemical reactions, light scattering, dielectric relaxation, and nonlinear optics.
Nancy E. Levinger	Ultrafast solvation and chemical reaction dynamics at liquid/liquid, liquid/solid interfaces and in restricted environments.
Thomas Meersmann	Novel NMR techniques for diffusion in porous media, NMR imaging, Laser Enhanced Xenon-129 NMR Spectroscopy ó Optical Pumping
Gary E. Maciel	Development and application of experimental and theoretical NMR approaches for the study of structure and dynamics. Applications in materials, catalysis, fossil fuels, environmental problems, and surfaces.
Anthony K. RappÈ	Development of molecular mechanics and dynamics technologies as well as electronic structure techniques; application of these theoretical methodologies to catalytic processes.
Grzegorz Szamel	Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of condensed phase systems.
Alan Van Orden	Single molecule detection and spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, optical and scanning probe microscopy, optical sensors for pharmaceutical, clinical, and environmental chemistry.