Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry

查尔斯·D·谢里尔博士被授予美国国家科学基金会化学博士后研究奖学金。谢里尔博士在亨利·谢弗教授的指导下获得了佐治亚大学的博士学位。谢里尔博士将在马丁·海德-戈登教授的赞助下继续在加州大学伯克利分校进行研究。博士后研究将集中在分子和金属表面之间的非绝热能量流动的研究。该方法将考虑核-电子耦合，以研究气体-表面粘连、扩散和高能散射的非绝热效应。同样令人感兴趣的是激光诱导气体分子从金属表面脱附的过程，这涉及到从传导电子到吸附物的振动模的非绝热能量转移。有关激光诱导解吸的高质量实验数据为研究提供了帮助。化学博士后研究奖学金计划被视为一个重要的基础计划，旨在拓宽新博士的知识和经验，并吸引他们在当代化学研究和教学中从事有意义的职业。

Dr. Charles D. Sherrill has been awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Dr. Sherrill received the doctoral degree from the University of Georgia under the supervision of Professor Henry Schaefer. Dr. Sherrill will continue research at the University of California at Berkeley under the sponsorship of Professor Martin Head-Gordon. The postdoctoral research will focus on the investigation of nonadiabatic energy flow between molecules and metal surfaces. The approach will take into account nuclear-electronic coupling to investigate nonadiabatic effects on gas-surface sticking, diffusion, and high energy scattering. Also of interest is the process of laser-induced desorption of gas molecules from metal surfaces, which involves nonadiabatic energy transfer from conduction electrons to vibrational modes of the adsorbate. Studies are aided by high-quality experimental data on laser-induced desorption now available. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry Program is viewed as an important infrastructural program designed to broaden the knowledge and experience of new Ph. D.s and attract them into meaningful careers in contemporary chemical research and teaching.