Award Abstract #0074913
POWRE: Studies of Molecular Motion in Reverse Micelles: A Sabbatical Leave Request

NSF Org:	CHE Division of Chemistry
Initial Amendment Date:	August 7, 2000
Latest Amendment Date:	August 7, 2000
Award Number:	0074913
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	John Stevens CHE Division of Chemistry MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:	July 15, 2000
Expires:	June 30, 2002 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$77583
Investigator(s):	Nancy Levinger levinger@lamar.colostate.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Colorado State University 601 S Howes St Fort Collins, CO 80523 970/491-6355
NSF Program(s):	PROJECTS, OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 1592, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	1978, 1253

ABSTRACT

This POWRE award by the Chemistry Division will permit Dr. Nancy Levinger to extend her sabbatical leave from Colorado State University to a full year of work in the laboratory of M.D. Fayer at Stanford University, where she will learn the use of ultrafast lasers to obtain vibrational coherence spectra as well as brush up on the time dependent quantum mechanical theoretical description of the non-linear signals generated by such experiments. She will apply these vibrational echo techniques in her continuing study of intermolecular interactions in extrememly small, nanoscale, reverse micelles upon her return to Colorado State University. Vibrational echo spectroscopy has been shown to greatly sharpen spectra allowing more precise information about the chemical environment of the sample to be obtained. Reverse micelles are important systems with which to model biomembranes and nanoscale reactions.

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