Sarah and Juli win for Rosetta’s PHILAE probe that recently landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, where it apparently found that we are not alone in the solar system.
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Warmup to the annual Geiger group cookie contest
New collaborative paper in J. Chem. Ed. with NU Law School, Groundswell Educational Films, and Chicago’s Columbia College
A General Chemistry Assignment Analyzing Environmental Contamination for the DePue, IL, National Superfund Site Sarah A. Saslow Gomez, Danielle Faurie-Wisniewski, Arlen Parsa, Jeff Spitz, Jennifer Amdur Spitz, Nancy C. Loeb, and Franz M. Geiger
Climate change: how hot will it get in my lifetime?
“Cool” widget from the Guardian.
Geiger papers in ACS Journals
A list of Geiger paper in ACS journals.
Collaborative work with CAICE team featured in PCCP’s Chemistry in Climate Change collection
Chemistry in Climate Change « ESPI Blog. PCCP has collected together some of the best research highlighting the importance of chemistry in climate change. The article ‘Raman microspectroscopy and vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy as probes of the bulk and surface compositions of size-resolved sea spray aerosol particles’ has been selected to feature in this Read More…
New J. Phys. Chem. paper with FIRST EFRC on Mg(II) interactions with graphene
New work reports thermodynamic and electrostatic parameters for fused silica/water interfaces containing centimeter-sized graphene ranging from a single layer of pristine graphene to defected graphene. Interaction of Magnesium Ions with Pristine Single-Layer and Defected Graphene/Water Interfaces Studied by Second Harmonic Generation Jennifer L. Achtyl, Ivan V. Vlassiouk, Sumedh P. Surwade, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Sheng Dai, Read More…
New joint paper with Columbia atmospheric chemistry group in ACP
New collaborative work by the McNeill, Thomson, and Geiger groups reports the synthesis and measurements of some climate-relevant physical properties of SOA particle constituents consisting of the isoprene oxidation products α-, δ-, and cis– and trans-β-IEPOX (isoprene epoxide), as well as syn– and anti-2-methyltetraol. Following viscosity measurements, we use octanol–water partition coefficients to quantify the relative hydrophobicity of the Read More…
New J. Phys. Chem. paper on oxide and hydroxide precipitates on muscovite
New work by Sarah Saslow Gomez shows that the surface charge density of mica may change (and in the case of Al(III), even flip sign from negative (mica) to positive (gibbsite)) when Al(III), Sc(III), or La(III) is present in aqueous phases in contact with heterogeneous geochemical media rich in mica-class minerals, even at subsaturation conditions. Precipitates Read More…
New NSF CCI collaborative paper in J. Chem. Ed.
A combined effort by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory describes how blogging about nanotechnology and sustainability can enhance graduate student communication to general audiences. Enhancing Graduate Student Communication to General Audiences through Blogging about Read More…