Ion Distributions in Solution

哈罗德·弗里德曼教授获得了理论与计算化学项目的资助，在离子溶液的统计力学领域进行理论研究。这项研究对进一步了解溶液中的化学平衡和化学反应的性质具有重要意义。弗里德曼教授将运用分析统计力学理论和计算机模拟相结合的方法，将溶液的可测量特性与分子的基本结构和动力学图像联系起来。最重要的可测量性质是电导率、浓度依赖平衡和反应速率，特别是电荷转移反应。新探针的范围从中子衍射，它在建立溶液的分子结构方面具有独特的强大功能，到光谱方法，随着超短脉冲的出现，产生和探测快速分子反应，变得非常强大。

Professor Harold L. Friedman is supported by a grant from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Program to perform theoretical studies in the area of statistical mechanics of ionic solutions. This research is of primary importance in furthering our understanding of the nature of chemical equilibrium and chemical reactions in solution. Professor Friedman will employ a mixture of analytical statistical mechanical theory and computer simulation to relate measurable properties of solutions to a molecular picture of the underlying structure and dynamics. The measurable properties of primary importance are the electrical conductivity, concentration dependent equilibria and reaction rates, especially for charge transfer reactions. New probes range from neutron diffraction, which is uniquely powerful for establishing the molecular structure of solutions, to spectroscopic methods that have, with the advent of ultra-short pulses for both generating and probing fast molecular responses, become enormously powerful.