In this award, funded by the Chemical Structure, Dynamics and Mechanisms Program of the Chemistry Division, Profs. Robert L. Vold and Gina Hoatson from the College of William and Mary and their graduate and undergraduate student colleagues will develop realistic models for simulating slow molecular motion, apply them to new types of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, and make the modeling and data fitting procedures easily accessible and freely available to the general scientific community. On line documentation, to be developed as part of this project, will include tutorials on experimental procedures, illustrated by animated simulations of typical experiments. This will provide a generally useful teaching tool for introducing students to practical aspects of spectroscopy, even in situations where expensive, high field instrumentation is not readily available.
The work of Prof. Vold, Prof. Hoatson and their research colleagues and research students will enable scientists to study a broader range of materials, and to analyze some of the very slow motions that are important in determining such useful properties as increased sensitivity of ultrasonic detectors. In addition to the broader scientific impact of the proposed work, the students being trained in this project will be exposed to unique interdisciplinary research.
