Molecules in Condensed Phase

Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science (CPIMS) research highlights the molecular understanding of physical,chemical, and electron-driven processes with in aqueous media and at interfaces. Study of reaction dynamics at well-characterized metal, metal-oxide surfaces and clusters direct to the progress of theories on the molecular origins of surface-mediated catalysis and heterogeneous chemistry. Study of model condensed-phase systems aim first-principles understandings of dynamical processes and molecular reactivity in solution and at interfaces. The approach face the transition from molecular-scale chemistry to combined phenomena in complex systems, like the influences of solvation on chemical reactivity and structure.

The CPIMS program is special is its significance to DOE mission areas, providing a primary basis for understanding chemical reactivity in complex systems, like those come across in catalysis, separations, energy storage, and the environmental contaminant transport in mineral and aqueous environments. This program is a main supporter of essential research on chemical reactivity of molecular species on metal clusters,  in the liquid phase, and at solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces. Basic studies of reactive processes driven through radiolysis in condensed phases and at interfaces provide enhanced understanding of radiolysis effects and radiation-driven chemistry with in nuclear fuel and waste environments.