The Hopkins group welcomes Rebecca Harrop to the research team. Rebecca is a 4th year honours student who is currently undertaking a CHEM 494 research project. Rebecca’s thesis title is “Surface Sulphide Production on Rhodium Nanoclusters”.
During May 2012, Professor Hopkins will be giving two invited lectures on “The Structures and Reactivities of Transition Metal Nanoclusters”. These are scheduled for May 14th at the University of Guelph and May 30th at the annual Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Calgary, Alberta.
Congratulations to Theodore Chow for his winning poster presentation on his computational studies of OCS adsorption on cationic rhodium clusters. Theodore won the 2nd place poster prize at the 2012 SOUSCC.
The Hopkins research group welcomes Mike Lecours and Theodore Chow, who are both currently undertaking co-op workterms. Mike is running ion trajectory simulations to aid in the design of a new research instrument, while Theodore is working on density functional theory calculations of small tranisition metal nanoclusters.
Dr. H. has co-authored an article titled "Effects of Coadsorbed Oxygen on the Infrared Driven Decomposition of N2O on isolated Rh5+ Clusters", which has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. This paper details some research of which Dr. H was a part when he was based at the University of Oxford.
A new article titled "Unravelling the visible spectrum of strontium monomethoxide" has been published in the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. The article discusses high resolution electronic spectroscopy and optical-optical double resonance population depletion techniques as applied to SrOCH3. This work was started in 2005 when Dr. H. was studying for his PhD at UNB!