Probing Liquid Surfaces

这一职业进步奖将使Mary Jane Shultz博士能够将她的研究重点从电子振动状态特定的反应性转移到液体界面上较不明确的反应领域。该项目将开发能够检查液体界面的光谱和分子探测器。通过二次谐波产生和FTIR研究界面上的离子物种。结构和动力学参数将根据离子与液体界面的相互作用进行测量和解释。%该提案开发了一个程序，可以提供有关气体与液体相互作用的新信息。这项工作很重要，因为许多环境问题都与这种相互作用有关。这项工作可以使人们更好地了解环境化学，并找到将空气污染等问题降至最低的方法。

This Career Advancement Award will enable Dr. Mary Jane Shultz to shift her research empahsis from electronic-vibrational state specific reactivity to the less well defined area of reactions on liquid interfaces. The project will develop spectroscopic and molecular probes capable of examining liquid interfaces. Ionic species will be studied at the interface by second harmonic generation and by FTIR. Structural and dynamic parameters will be measured and interpreted in terms of how ions interact with liquid interfaces. %%% This proposal develops a program which can provide new information on the interactions of gases with liquids. The work is important because many environmental problems are related to such interactions. The work can lead to a better understanding of environmental chemistry and to ways that such problems as air pollution can be minimized.