U.S.-Chile Cooperative Science Program: Interaction Between Metal Atoms and Carbon Clusters

该美洲计划奖将支持 菲利普博士与 奥本大学的舍夫林和加洛博士 卡德纳斯-特里维诺，孔塞普西翁大学， 智利. 该奖项将补充现有的两个 国家科学基金会赠款。该研究涉及的领域 碳原子簇化学与金属原子 化学. 它将侧重于金属的使用 原子作为碳簇的捕获剂 以及基于新集群的合成 材料. 实验将涵盖广泛的 研究领域，旨在提供一个 调查人员的调查方法框架 碳簇化学 辅助研究仪器在 这两所大学将在以下方面发挥重要作用： 促进合作。 新 基于簇的材料将在 奥本，而它们与金属原子的反应 将在孔塞普西翁进行。 随着碳簇的重要性日益显现， 化学和一般的集群， 与金属原子化学的融合有可能 对化学基础设施的影响。

This Americas Program award will support collaborative research between Dr. Philip Shevlin, Auburn University and Dr. Galo Cardenas-Trivino, University of Concepcion, Chile. This award will supplement two existing NSF grants. The research involves the area of carbon cluster chemistry and metal atom chemistry. It will focus on the use of metal atoms as trapping agents for carbon clusters and the synthesis of new cluster based materials. The experiments will cover a broad area of research and are designed to provide a framework for the investigators' approach to carbon cluster chemistry. The complementary research instrumentation at both universities will play a large part in facilitating the collaboration. The new cluster based materials will be synthesized in Auburn while their reactions with metal atoms will be carried out at Concepcion. With the emerging importance of carbon cluster chemistry and that of clusters in general, the merge with metal atom chemistry has a potential impact on the infrastructure of chemistry.