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SUMMARY:Einstein's Chemical View of Light and Nonlinear Optics
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dor Ben-Amotz\, Purdue University\nBio: All of our resea
 rch involves the development of new tools for use in the solution of pract
 ical chemical problems. The techniques we employ include Raman spectroscop
 y\, fluorescence\, densitometry and sound velocity measurement as well as 
 computer simulation and statistical mechanical modeling. Applications of o
 ur experimental and theoretical discoveries range from disease screening\,
  chemical imaging\, industrial monitoring and plastic recycling\, to globa
 l thermodynamic quantitation of chemical processes such as protein folding
 \, drug binding and hydrophobic hydration.\nRaman and fluorescence microsc
 opy are combined with near-IR lasers\, fiber optics and optical array dete
 ctor to develop new instruments for micro-chemical analysis\, proteomic di
 agnostics and real-time chemical imaging. These make it possible to identi
 fy and map chemical substances in less than 1 second -- fast enough for ro
 botic vision\, multiplexed disease screening\, on-line process monitoring 
 and automated recycling applications.\nOur experimental and theoretical mo
 deling efforts are aimed at better understanding liquid and supercritical 
 fluid chemical processes of relevance to drug design and delivery\, polyme
 r processing and reaction yield optimization. We use laser spectroscopy\, 
 densitometry and sound velocity to measure changes in molecular vibration\
 , rotation\, isomerization\, dissociation and solvation-shell structure as
  a function of pressure and temperature. The results are compared with cla
 ssical and quantum mechanical models for the effects of aqueous and non-aq
 ueous solvents on chemical processes.\nEducation\nB.A.\, 1976\, Bennington
  College\; M.A.\, 1981\, Brandeis University\; Ph.D.\, 1986\, University o
 f California\, Berkeley\; Postdoctoral Fellow\, Exxon Corporate Research L
 aboratory\, 1986-89.\nRecognitions\n    ASME-Innovative Research Award\
 , 1995\n    ONR-Young Investigator\, 1992\n    NSF-Presidential Youn
 g Investigator\, 1991\n
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