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36 - I S * * E - S 0@~· m -~~~· -~~~~~~~~TTF - -~~~~~~~~llilll A S~~~~~r.ir *~~e. 0 - 0iiir Available to DOE and DOE contractors from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information. P.O. Box 62. Oak Ridge, TN 37831; prices available from (615) 576-8401. Available to the public from the National Technical Information Service. U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Rd.. Springfield, VA 22161. DOE/ER--0144/10 (DE92011920) August 1992 Distribution Categories UC-400 and UC-401 Summaries of FY 1992 Research in the Chemical Sciences U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Research Division of Chemical Sciences This report was compiled for the Office of Energy Research from project summaries contained in the Research-In-Progress (RIP) database of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The RIP database describes new and ongoing energy and energy-related research projects carried out or sponsored by the Department of Energy. Contents PREFACE vii University of Arizona 34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES DIVISION viii Boston University 34 PROGRAM SUMMARIES ix Brandeis University 34 LABORATORY ADMINISTRATION xiii California Institute of Technology 35 University of California, Berkeley 35 NATIONAL LABORATORIES University of California, Irvine 35 Photochemical and Radiation Sciences University of California, Los Angeles 36 Ames Laboratory 1 University of California, Santa Barbara 36 Argonne National Laboratory 2 Clemson University 36 Brookhaven National Laboratory 3 University of Colorado 37 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 4 Columbia University 3 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 4 Dartmouth College 38 Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory 5 University of Houston 38 Chemical Physics Marquette University 39 Ames Laboratory 7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39 Argonne National Laboratory 8 University of Massachusetts at Boston 39 Brookhaven National Laboratory 9 University of Minnesota 39 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 10 National Institute of Standards and 40 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 11 Technology, Gaithersburg Pacific Northwest Laboratory 11 University of North Carolina at Chapel 40 Laboratories, Livermore 12 Hill Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore 12University of North Carolina at Charlotte 41 Atomic Physics Northwestern University 41 Argonne National Laboratory 13Ohio State University41 Brookhaven National Laboratory 14 OregonOhio State Graduate University Institute of Science and 4241 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 14Technology Technology Oak Ridge National Laboratory 15 Pennsylvania State University, University 42 Sandia National Laboratories, 16 Park Albuquerque University of Pittsburgh 43 Chemical Energy Portland State University 43 Ames Laboratory 16 Princeton University 43 Argonne National Laboratory 18 University of Rochester 44 Brookhaven National Laboratory 19 Rutgers, The State University of New 45 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 20 Jersey Los Alamos National Laboratory 21 University of South Florida 45 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 21 Stanford University 45 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 21 Syracuse University 46 Pacific Northwest Laboratory 23 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 46 Separations and Analysis University of Texas at Austin 4-6 Ames Laboratory 23 Washington State University 47 Argonne National Laboratory 24 Wayne State University 47 Brookhaven National Laboratory 24 Chemical Physics Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 25 Aerospace Corporation 47 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 25 University of Akron 48 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 25 Arizona State University 48 Pacific Northwest Laboratory 27 University of Arizona 4:8 Heavy Element Chemistry University of California, Los Angeles 49 Argonne National Laboratory 29 Catholic University of America 49 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 29 University of Chicago 4:9 Los Alamos National Laboratory 30 University of Colorado 50 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 30 Columbia University 50 Chemical Engineering Sciences Cornell University 51 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 30 Emory University 51 Los Alamos National Laboratory 31 University of Georgia 52 Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore 31 Harvard University 52 OFFSITE INSTITUTIONS University of Illinois at Chicago 53 Photochemical and Radiation Sciences Johns Hopkins University 53 University of Akron 33 University of Kentucky 54 University of Alabama 33 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 54 Arizona State University 33 University of Massachusetts at Amherst 54 Research in Chemical Sciences iii CONTENTS University of Michigan 55 Lehigh University 7 University of Minnesota 55 Louisiana State University 77 National Institute of Standards and 56 University of Louisville 78 Technology, Gaithersburg University of Maryland at College Park 78 University of New Orleans 56 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel 57 University of Massachusetts at Amherst 7 Hill University of Michigan 79 University of Oregon 57 University of Minnesota 79 Pennsylvania State University, University 57 University of Missouri at Columbia 80 UnPark of PennsUniversity of Nevada at Reno 80 Princeton University 58 University of North Carolina at Chapel 80 Hill Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 59 Northwestern University 81 Rice University 59 University of Oklahoma 82 University of Rochester 60 University of Oregon 82 University of Southern California 60 Pennsylvania State University, University 82 Stanford University 61 Park State University of New York at Stony 61 University of Pennsylvania 83 Brook University of Pittsburgh 84 University of Utah 61 Purdue University 85 University of Washington 62 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 85 University of Wisconsin at Madison 62 University of Rochester 86 Atomic Physics Rutgers, The State University of New 86 California State University, Fullerton 62 Jersey Clark Atlanta University 63 University of South Carolina 87 University of Colorado 63 University of Southern California 87 University of Connecticut 63 Southern Illinois University 87 Cornell University 64 Stanford University 88 Georgia Institute of Technology 64 State University of New York at 88 Harvard University 64 Binghamton Kansas State University 64 State University of New York at Buffalo 88 University of Kansas 65 Syracuse University 89 University of Kentucky 65 Texas A & M University 89 University of Louisville 65 University of Texas at Austin 89 National Institute of Standards and 66 Tulane University 90 Technology, Gaithersburg University of Utah 90 University of Nebraska 66 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 91 University of Nevada at Reno 66 University University of New Mexico 66 University of Washington 91 Pennsylvania State University, Lehman 67 Wayne State University 92 University of Pittsburgh 67 University of Wisconsin at Madison 92 Rice University 67 University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 93 University of Rochester 68 Yale University 93 University of Southern California 68 Separations and Analysis University of Tennessee at Knoxville 68 Auburn University 94 Texas A & M University 68 Brigham Young University 94 University of Texas at Austin 69 Brown University 94 University of Toledo 69 Columbia University 95 Vanderbilt University 69 University of Delaware 95 University of Virginia 70 Duke University 95 Western Michigan University 70 Emory University 96 The College of William and Mary 70 University of Florida 96 Chemical Energy The George Washington University 97 Auburn University 70 Georgia Institute of Technology 97 California Institute of Technology 71 Hampton University 97 University of California, Irvine 71 University of Houston 97 University of California, San Diego 71 University of Idaho 98 University of California, Santa Barbara 72 University of Illinois at 98 Colorado State University 72 Urbana-Champaign University of Colorado 73 Kansas State University 98 University of Connecticut 73 Lehigh University 99 University of Delaware 73 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 99 Harvard University 74 Michigan State University 99 University of Illinois at 74 University of Michigan 99 Urbana-Champaign University of Minnesota 100 Indiana University 75 University of Missouri at Rolla 100 University of Iowa 76 National Institute of Standards and 100 Kansas State University 76 Technology, Gaithersburg iV Research in Chemical Sciences CONTENTS University of North Carolina at Chapel 101 North Carolina State University 111 Hill University of Pennsylvania 112 University of Oklahoma 101 esy -. c,' , .TY * C.iA P Prnnceton University 11" Oregon State University 101 Purdue University 102 Stanford University 112 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 102 State University of New York at Stony 112 State University of New York at Buffalo 102 Brook Syracuse University 103 University of Virginia 113 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 103 University of Wisconsin at Madison 113 Texas A & M University 104 Yale University 113 Texas Tech University 104 Small Business Innovation Research University of Texas at Austin 105 Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. 1141 University of Utah 105 Bend Research, Inc. 114 Virginia Commonwealth University 106 Washington State University 106 Cape Cod Research, Inc. University of Wyoming 106 Chromex, Inc. 11 Heavy Element Chemistry EIC Laboratories, Inc. 115 Florida State University 106 Eltron Research, Inc. 115 University of New Mexico 107 INRAD, Inc. 115 Ohio State University 107 Jet Process Corporation 115 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 107 Laser Photonics Technology, Inc. 116 Chemical Engineering Sciences Materials and Electrochemical Research 116 University
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