Rubtsov Group 2017
Group Announcements
Current research projects of Rubtsov laboratory
1. Ballistic energy transport in molecules (NSF CHE-1462075, 2015-2018, NSF CHE-1900568 2019-2022).
2. Infra-red control of electron transfer processes: implementation of a molecular interferometer. (NSF, CHE-1012371, 2010-2015; NSF CHE-1565427, 2016-2020).
3. Structural assessment of thin films and molecular monolayers using surface-enhanced 2DIR with plasmonic nanoantenna arrays. (Binational Science Foundation grant 201667 with Prof. Lev Chuntonov at Technion, 2017-2021, and NSF MRI grant DMR-1727000, 2017-2020, with Prof. Matthew Escarra at Tulane for purchasing e-beam lithography instrument)
4. Development of a fully automated dual-frequency spectrometer for surface-enhanced ATR 2DIR studies (NSF MRI, CHE-1828531, 2018-2021).
5. Dynamics of the lipid membrane interior using vibrational spectroscopy.
6. Higher-order infrared spectroscopy – 5th-order 2DIR
7. Molecular interactions of Aβ peptides (Alzheimer disease peptides).
Fall 2016
- Xiao Li was awarded the Arlo Harris Fellowship award.
- Robert Mackin was awarded a Teaching Award.
- First year graduate students Zowie Saxman and Junhan Zhou have joined the Rubtsov group!
- Undergraduate students Ashton Friend and Oskay Taskin have joined the Rubtsov group!
- Joel Leger and Clyde Varner‘s paper “Multi-Mode Heterodyned 5th-Order Infrared Spectroscopy” has been accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics.
- Layla Qasim’s paper “Energy Transport in PEG Oligomers: Contributions of Different Optical Bands” has been accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Summer 2016
- Layla Qasim received an award for an outstanding poster presentation at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference.
- Layla Qasim was elected as Chair of the next Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference.
- Layla Qasim and Robert Mackin presented their research at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference.
- Layla was selected to be the discussion leader for the keynote address at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference.
Congratulations to Clara Nyby who won NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to perform "Spectroscopic study of structure-dependent energy transport along polymer chains"
Congratulations to Dr. Gopal Naraharisetty, who received an Assistant Professor appointment at the University of Hyderabad
Physical Chemistry Division Outstanding Student Poster Award was presented to Natalia Rubtsova at the 245th National ACS Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7-11, 2013.
