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Delroy
Baugh
Associate Professor Dynamics of photochemical and atomic-radical/surface reactions. The UCLA hexapole and polarization analysis of product quantum states are used to measure the transition matrix (magnitude/phase) for photochemical reactions. Hyperthermal H-atom beams are used to study etching reactions and to do vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbates on Si and diamond surfaces. |
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- (310) 206-1485 |
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Peter
Felker
Professor High resolution nonlinear laser spectroscopy of species in molecular beams; picosecond time-resolved studies of photochemical and photophysical dynamics of molecules. |
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- (310) 206-6924 |
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William
Gelbart
Professor Physical aspects of viral life cycles: ours is a joint group [co-directed by Professor Charles M. Knobler] doing theory and experiment on representative viruses from the bacterial, plant, and animal kingdoms, focusing on the generic properties of their structures and replication, both in vitro and in vivo. |
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- (310) 825-2005 |
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James
Gimzewski
Professor Nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology research: cell sonics; nanomechanics of cells and bacteria; design, fabrication and measurements of molecular systems that exhibit functionality at the level of single molecules and in the field of nanofabrication; atom and molecule manipulation with scanning tunneling microscopy; compact nuclear fusion devices; and carbon nanotubes. |
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- (310) 794-7514 |
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Raphael
Levine
Professor Chemistry under extreme conditions; nanoelectronics and molecule based logic devices; reaction dynamics and mechanism in large systems including clusters and in solution; algebraic techniques for structure and dynamics in anharmonic systems; dynamics in phase space, including the application of information theory. |
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- (310) 206-0476 |
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Alex Levine
Assistant Professor Soft condensed matter and biology, Properties of biopolymers and their aggregates; Particle and polymer dynamics in membranes and at interfaces; Theory of microrheology. |
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- (310) 794-4436 |
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Yung-Ya
Lin
Associate Professor Channeling progress in fundamental spin physics and engineering into significant improvements in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging with valuable applications in chemistry, biology and medicine, such as early tumor/lesion detection, nanoscience-based molecular imaging, cellular imaging and stem/cancer cell trafficking, and indirect detection and spin amplification by hyperpolarization, diffusion, and chemical exchange. |
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- (310) 206-2856 |
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Thomas
Mason
Associate Professor Experimental physical chemistry; design and fabrication of novel colloidal architectures in solution through directed assembly; dynamic light scattering, rheology, and optical microscopy of the structure, phase behavior, and dynamics of concentrated dispersions of solid particles and liquid emulsion droplets; small angle neutron and light scattering measurements of structures in nanoscale and microscale soft materials; shear-induced structural transitions in multiphase materials. |
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- (310) 206-0828 |
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Daniel
Neuhauser
Professor Theoretical Chemistry. Spintronics, molecular electronics, theory and simulation of nanosystems; interference based molecular devices. New approaches for very large scale simulations of nano- and mesoscopic quantum systems, both stationary and under strong fields. |
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- (310) 206-1274 |
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Benjamin
Schwartz
Professor Experimental and Theoretical Physical Chemistry: femtosecond studies of solution phase photochemistry; solvation dynamics; classical, quantum and non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations; photophysics of conducting polymers, polymer interfaces and polymeric devices. |
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- (310) 206-4113 |
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Sarah
Tolbert
Professor Solid state physical chemistry; self-organized nanoscale materials for optical, electronic, magnetic, and structural applications. Self-assembled inorganic/organic composites and colloidal materials designed to control optical and electronic properties. Biologically based materials. Kinetic control of nanoscale architectures; high pressure stability; understanding and correlating structural changes across lengthscales. |
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- (310) 206-4767 |
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Shimon
Weiss
Professor Application of single molecule spectroscopy to biology and nanotechnology; dynamic structural biology; conformational dynamics of molecular machines; protein folding; protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions; single molecule enzymology; ultrahigh resolution & ultrahigh sensitivity fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy; physics and chemistry of mesoscopic (nano-scale) systems. |
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- (310) 794-0093- |
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Jeffrey
Zink
Professor Laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition and simultaneous characterization of photofragments; nano-materials and sol-gel optical materials; optical sensors; excited state processes in metal complexes including luminescence, photochemistry and photocatalysis; electronic and resonance Raman spectroscopic studies of excited state distortions. |
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- (310) 825-1001 |
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Charles
Knobler |
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Howard
Reiss
Emeritus Professor Nucleation, fundamental nonlinear theory of redox couples, statistical mechanics of a variety of strongly coupled systems, physical chemistry of conducting polymers. |
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Robert
Scott
Emeritus Professor Thermodynamics of liquids and liquid mixtures, phase equilibria, critical and tricritical phenomena, global phase diagrams calculated from equations of state. |
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