Our roadmap to obtaining the imaginary component of the surface second-order nonlinear susceptibility from vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy and heterodyne-detected second harmonic measurements is out in JACS. Stay tuned till galleys are turned around. For now, you can read the piece on chemRxiv. Congratulations to Emily Ma and Ben Rehl, who led this tour-de-force effort Read More…
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Geiger metal energy harvester patent granted
Our nanometal energy harvester patent was granted on 5 July 2022 after being filed on 18 September 2018. Congratulations to listed co-inventor Dr. Mavis Boamah! The patent is for “Energy harvesting devices and methods for converting the mechanical energy of a flowing ionic solution such as rainwater or seawater into electric energy” utilizing “a metal Read More…
Emilie Lozier named 2022 Buffett Global Impacts Graduate Fellow
Emilie Lozier, of the Geiger Research Group, has been named a 2022 Buffett Global Impacts Graduate Fellow in Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Lozier is the first NU chemistry PhD student to be named a Northwestern Buffett Institute Global Impacts Graduate Fellow. The fellowship recognizes her work at the nexus of Pt-group element-free Read More…
Emily Ma wins Burwell Scholarship, posts new dipole potential finding on chemRxiv
Congratulations to Emily Ma, who has won a 2022 Robert L. Burwell Scholarship. This Fellowship, so named for one of Northwestern’s most distinguished Physical Chemistry faculty who served in the department for over 40 years (1939-1980), recognizes and rewards excellence in physical chemistry. You can read about Emily’s latest work on dipole potentials, heterodyne-detected SHG, and SFG spectroscopy, Read More…
The Photonic Voltmeter is Now Chemically Specific – JPC A
Emily Ma’s work on ion specific HD-SHG measurements is now published in the “Dor Ben-Amotz Festschrift” in JPC A. CongratsEmily!
New JACS paper on chiral cloud chemistry
Congratulations to Aleia Bellcross and former Geiger group member Ariana Gray Be for their paper on chiral cloud chemistry that just came out in JACS.
New paper on Stern and diffuse layer interactions with Miller group
Congrats to Emily Ma for leading a major effort to understand Stern and diffuse layer interactions at fused silica:water interfaces from experiment and theory. The paper is published here.
Geiger alumna Dr. Mavis Boamah hired as Experimental Geochemist at PNNL
Congratulations to PNNL Pauling Fellow Mavis Boamah, who was just hired to a permanent staff position of Experimental Geochemist at PNNL!
New arXiv preprint on Stern and Diffuse Layer Interactions during Ionic Strength Cycling
Emily’s year-and-a-half-long foray into kinetic measurements of Stern and diffuse layer structure during ionic strength cycling now available at this arXiv preprint.
From Watermills to Oceanmills: Catherine Walker’s Talk on Power Generation from Metal Nanolayers wins 3rd Place at Undergrad Expo
Congratulations to Catherine Walker, who’s talk placed third at the 2021 Northwestern University Undergraduate Expo. Watch the talk here. The work is on her contributions to the PNAS paper on the same topic.