个人简介

University of California, Los Angeles - B.S. (1980) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Ph.D. (1985) University of California, Los Angeles - Postdoctoral Fellow (1985-1987) Awards 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2002 Senior Scientist Fellowship, French Ministry of Research. Laboratory of Physical Spectrometry, University of Grenoble and CNRS 1997 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

研究领域

Physical Chemistry/Environmental Chemistry

Our research focuses on ultrafast (~10 -12 sec) vibrational and electronic dynamics in molecular solids by the use of coherent nonlinear time-resolved laser spectroscopy. Novel laser systems are designed to generate ultrashort laser light pulses which are used as time-resolved probes of molecular dynamics. Variable temperature (e.g. 1.1 - 1000 K) and diamond anvil techniques are utilized to control intermolecular interactions under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. The following projects investigate chemical dynamics and novel applications of molecular solids: chronistermodel1 The Dynamics of Molecular Solids at High Pressure. Diamond anvil high pressure cells (~105 atm) are used to alter intermolecular distances, while picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman and photon echo spectroscopies are used to probe energy relaxation and dephasing in molecular solids. The Dynamics of Organically Doped Sol-Gel Glasses, and Development of Sol-Gel Clad Fiber Optic Sensors. The molecular dynamics (e.g. energy transfer and rotational motion), optical response (e.g. fast optical switching), and chemical sensor characteristics of these unique porous glasses are being investigated. Dynamic high pressure studies of chemical and physical changes using novel dynamic diamond anvil cells. The kinetics of chemical and physical changes (e.g. protein folding, solid-solid phase changes, etc.) are initiated by an impulsive pressure change and probed using time-resolved spectroscopy. Vibrational Energy Bottlenecks in Molecular Solids. The mechanism by which vibrational modes store and dispose of vibrational energy is important for determining chemical reactivity.

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Sebastian R. Jezowski, Christopher J. Bardeen*, Eric L. Chronister*, "Pressure Stabilization of 9-tert-butyl-anthracene with Respect to Photochemical Dewar Isomerization", To be Submitted to Chemical Physics Letters, (2013). Marta S. Fellows Olteanu, Michael McIntire, Patrick M. Lloyd, and Eric L. Chronister*, "Ionic Diffusion and Transport in Silica Sol-Gel Glasses". Submitted to Materials Letters, (2013). Andrew P. Rice, Bohdan Schatschneider and Eric L. Chronister*, "Pressure Dependent Molecular Dynamics of Mixed Molecular Crystals: A lattice and local phonon study of pentacene doped para-terphenyl". Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics (2013). Andrew Rice, Fook Tham and Eric Chronister*, "A Temperature Dependent X-ray study of the Order-Disorder Enantiotropic Phase Transition of p-Terphenyl". Journal of Chemical Crystallography , (2013), 43, 14-25. Nadine Rademacher, Luke L. Daemen, Eric L. Chronister and Thomas Proffen, "Pair Distribution Function Analysis of Molecular Compounds: Significance and New Modeling Approach Discussed on the Example p-Terphenyl", Journal of Applied Crystallography, (2012), 45, 482-488. Sebastian R. Jezowski, Lingyan Zhu, Yaobing Wang, Andrew P. Rice, Gary W. Scott, Christopher J. Bardeen*, Eric L. Chronister*, "Pressure Assisted Bond Dissociation in Anthracene Cyclophane Photodimers". Journal of the American Chemical Society (2012), 134, 7459-7466. Bohdan Schatschneider and Eric L. Chronister*, "Temperature Dependent Vibrational Dynamics in Crystalline para-terphenyl under High Pressure". Chemical Physics Letters (2012), 533, 30-34. Gregory J.O. Beran, Eric. L. Chronister , Luke L. Daemen, Aaron R. Moehlig, Leonard J. Mueller, Jos Oomens, Andrew Rice, David Santiago-Dieppa, Fook S. Tham, Kelly Theel , Sepideh Yaghmaeia and Thomas Hellman Morton, "Vibrations of a Chelated Proton in a Protonated Tertiary Diamine". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2011), 13, 20380-20392. Bohdan Schatschneider and Eric L. Chronister*, "Modeling Pressure and Temperature Induced Solid-Solid Phase Transitions in para-terphenyl". Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2011), 115(3), 407-413. Michael McIntire, Liang Zhao, Valerii Kobryanskii, and Eric Chronister, "High-pressure Raman Spectroscopy of nanoparticle polyacetylene in a poly(vinyl-butyral) marix". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 42 (2011) 1435-1441. Bohdan Schatschneider and Eric L. Chronister*, "Molecular dynamics simulations of temperature- and pressure-induced solid-solid phase transitions in crystalline para-terphenyl", Molecular Simulation, 34 (2008) 1159. Bohdan Schatschneider and Eric L. Chronister, "High-Resolution FTIR study of the para-terphenyl phase transition at high-pressure". Journal of Luminescence 127 (2007) 34–40. Michael J. McIntire and Eric L. Chronister , "Intrinsic Differences Between Tunneling Two Level Systsems in a Molecular versus Polymeric Glass probed by Photon Echo Measurements at Variable Low Temperature and High Pressure". Journal of Chemical Physics, 124 (2006) 014904/1-4. Michael J. McIntire, Masashi Yamaguchi, Misha A. Kol’chenko, Yuri G. Vanier, and Eric L. Chronister , "High Pressure Studies of Optical Dephasing in Polymer Glasses". Journal of Physical Chemistry B , 110 (2006) 227-233. Michael J. McIntire and Eric L. Chronister*, "Low Temperature Photon Echo Study of 2-MTHF Glass under High Pressure", Optics and Spectroscopy (Optika i Spectoskopiya), Vol. 98, (2005), pp. 687-691 (Roman Personov Special Issue). Masashi Yamaguchi, Bruce J. Baer a, Aliaksandr V. Krukau c, Michael J. McIntire, Colm M. Flannery b, and Eric L. Chronister*, "An impulsive stimulated scattering of surface acoustic waves under high pressure", Journal of Luminescence 107 (2004) 359-368. Eric L. Chronister, Liang Zhao, Masashi Yamaguchi, Bruce Baer, "Impulsive stimulated scattering study of surface acoustic waves in metal and semiconductor crystals under high pressure," SPIE proceedings, Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Proceedings of the SPIE, Ed. D. Andrews, vol. 4812, pp. 77-81 (2002). Liang Zhao, Rui Lian, Ilya A. Shkrob, Robert A.Crowell, Stanislas Pommeret, Eric L. Chronister, An Dong Liu, Alexander D.Trifunac, "Ultrafast Studies on the Photophysics of Matrix-Isolated Radical Cations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons", Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2004), 108(1), 25-31. Masashi Yamaguchi, Scott V. Serafin, Thomas Hellman Morton, and Eric L. Chronister*, "Infrared absorption studies of n-heptane under high pressure," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107, 2815-2821 (2003). Junjun Wu, Liang Zhao, EricL.Chronister, and Sarah H.Tolbert, "Elasticity through Nanoscale Distortions in Periodic Surfactant Templated Porous Silica under High Pressure," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106, 5613-5621 (2002).