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Welcome to the Suits Group
Our work explores fundamental issues in chemical reaction dynamics and chemical physics. We use a combination of quantum-state resolved and universal ion imaging techniques to probe the intimate details of atomic and molecular interactions.
New Directions
NSF-IDBR: Tandem mass spectrometry with electrostatic ion traps.
NSF-CRC: Formation and growth mechanisms of hydrocarbons in Titan's atmosphere.
News
Conformationally-controlled Dynamics: Ion imaging results for the H loss channel from propanal cation dissocation show profound dependence on the initial conformer. This remarkable behavior is understood with the aid of AIMS dynamical calculations from the Martinez group at Illinois. Free reprint: M. H. Kim, et al. Science, 315, 1561 (2007).
An overview of our work is presented in a feature article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: D. Townsend, W. Li, S. K. Lee, R. L. Gross and A. G. Suits, J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 8661 (2005) 10.1021/jp0526086. (Left, below)
Ion Imaging Comes of Age: Contributions to the Pacifichem Symposium "Imaging Probes of Spectroscopy and Dynamics" are compiled in a special issue of PCCP: 8(24) (2006).
Latest Results:
PCCP Hot Article:
Doppler-free/Doppler-sliced Imaging
State Resolved reactive scattering
Orbital polarization in ozone photodissociation
Reflectron Multimass Ion Imaging
Vibrationally-mediated Ion Dissociation
Megapixel Ion Imaging (Cheap!)
For information contact: Arthur Suits