Chemistry at Ultralow Temperatures using Superfluid Helium Droplets:

在这个由化学系实验物理化学计划资助的项目中，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的罗杰·E·米勒教授将与他的本科生、研究生和博士后研究生一起进行实验，研究各种限制在冷氦液滴中的化学系统。冷液滴的性质使米勒和他的团队能够研究一系列化学上有趣的系统，这些系统很难或不可能用其他方法研究。这些研究将包括氢键系统、高活性自由基分子络合物、金属和半导体簇合物以及小生物分子的继续研究。此外，还将使用强大的红外泵浦激光器进行其他实验，以研究分子内重排和双分子反应。这些非常基础的研究结果将适用于从纳米科学到生物物理学的各种学科。除了将进行的研究的更广泛影响外，米勒小组培训的学生还接受了涉及许多科学学科的非常广泛的培训。

In this project, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Roger E. Miller of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill will conduct experiments with his undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral research students to study a wide variety of chemical systems confined to cold helium droplets. The nature of the cold droplets allows Miller and his group to study a wide range of chemically interesting systems that would be difficult or impossible to study by other means. Included in these studies will be continued studies of hydrogen-bonded systems, highly reactive radical molecule complexes, metal and semiconductor clusters, and small biomolecules. Additional experiments will be performed with a powerful infrared pump laser to investigate intramoleuclar rearrangements and bimolecular reactions. The results from these very basic studies will be applicable to a wide variety of disciplines from nanoscience to biophysics. Besides the broader impact of the research that will be performed, students trained in the Miller group are given a very broad training across many scientific disciplines.