Microdroplet Chemistry
Event details
| Date | 15.09.2016 |
| Hour | 16:30 › 17:30 |
| Speaker |
Prof. Richard N. Zare Stanford University Department of Chemistry |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
My research group has been studying chemical reactions in microdroplets and comparing the findings with the behavior of the same reaction in bulk solution. Our detection method has been a high-resolution mass spectrometer. Two different experimental setups are employed, one involving fusing together two streams of microdroplets (shown in Fig. l, the panel on the left), the other simply involving desorption electrospray ionization (shown in Fig, 1, the panel on the right). One significant advantage of investigating reactions in microdroplets is that this technique allows us to detect and identify fleeting intermediates in complex reactions. Another special feature of microdroplet chemistry is that the rates of some reactions can be accelerated by a factor of 1000 or more. This talk is intended to be of interest to all types of chemists.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Swiss Chemical Society/Prof. Ulrich Lorenz