CRC: An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Air-Water Interface In Atmospherically Relevant Systems

放大图片作者：Barbara J.本尼·格伯约翰C. Hemminger和加州大学欧文分校的道格拉斯J.托比亚斯由化学部，国际项目办公室和数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同支持，旨在显着推进我们对空气-水界面化学的理解。更具体地说，他们将研究气体，如SO2，氮氧化物（NO2，N2 O 4，HNO 3），CO2和HCl与水在不同厚度的薄膜中的相互作用。此外，这些薄膜与表面活性剂层的相互作用将进行研究。理论和实验都将被应用于理解这些系统中空气-水界面的化学和物理相互作用。将使用一个综合的空气区模式来探讨这种过程在对流层中涉及粒子和其他表面的界面处的潜在重要性。 该奖项包括与捷克科学院的Pavel Jungaleth和新西兰坎特伯雷大学的Leon菲利普斯的国际合作，其中包括为参与这项工作的学生和博士后研究人员提供国际培训机会。化学合作研究奖（CRC）授予致力于广泛化学兴趣问题的跨学科科学家团队。这些奖项的重点是研究和培训的新合作模式。

Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, Donald Dabdub, R. Benny Gerber, John. C. Hemminger and Douglas J. Tobias of UC Irvine are jointly supported by the Division of Chemistry, the International Programs Office and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for their interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at significantly advancing our understanding of chemistry at the air-water interface. More specifically, they will be looking at the interaction of gases such as SO2, oxides of nitrogen (NO2, N2O4, HNO3), CO2 and HCl with water in films of varying thickness. In addition, interactions of these thin films with surfactant layers will be studied. Both theory and experiments will be applied to understand the chemical and physical interactions at the air-water interface in these systems. The potential importance of such processes at interfaces involving particles and other surfaces in the troposphere will be probed using a comprehensive airshed model. This award includes international collaborations with Pavel Jungwirth, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Leon Phillips, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, that will include international training opportunities for the students and postdoctoral researchers involved with this work. Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) awards are given to interdisciplinary teams of scientists working on problems of broad chemical interest. The emphasis in these awards is on new collaborative modes of research and training.