POWRE: Studies of Molecular Motion in Reverse Micelles: A Sabbatical Leave Request

化学部门颁发的POWRE奖将允许Nancy Levinger博士从科罗拉多州立大学延长她的休假，在斯坦福大学的M.D. Fayer实验室工作整整一年，在那里她将学习使用超快激光获得振动相干光谱，并复习由此类实验产生的非线性信号的时间相关量子力学理论描述。回到科罗拉多州立大学后，她将把这些振动回声技术应用于她在极小的纳米级反胶束中的分子间相互作用的继续研究中。振动回波光谱已被证明可以极大地锐化光谱，从而获得关于样品化学环境的更精确的信息。反胶束是模拟生物膜和纳米级反应的重要系统。

This POWRE award by the Chemistry Division will permit Dr. Nancy Levinger to extend her sabbatical leave from Colorado State University to a full year of work in the laboratory of M.D. Fayer at Stanford University, where she will learn the use of ultrafast lasers to obtain vibrational coherence spectra as well as brush up on the time dependent quantum mechanical theoretical description of the non-linear signals generated by such experiments. She will apply these vibrational echo techniques in her continuing study of intermolecular interactions in extrememly small, nanoscale, reverse micelles upon her return to Colorado State University. Vibrational echo spectroscopy has been shown to greatly sharpen spectra allowing more precise information about the chemical environment of the sample to be obtained. Reverse micelles are important systems with which to model biomembranes and nanoscale reactions.