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

化学部颁发的POWRE奖将允许Nancy Levinger博士将她从科罗拉多州立大学的休假延长到斯坦福大学M.D.Fayer的实验室工作一整年，在那里她将学习使用超快激光来获得振动相干谱，并温习由此类实验产生的非线性信号的依赖时间的量子力学理论描述。她将在返回科罗拉多州立大学后，将这些振动回声技术应用于她对极小、纳米级、反胶束中分子间相互作用的继续研究。振动回波光谱学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准确的信息。反胶束是模拟生物膜和纳米级反应的重要体系。

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.