Steven A. Adelman

RESEARCH TIMELINE

• Gas Phase Beginnings

• Liquids in Equilibrium I : Ions and Dipoles

• Friction and Noise I : Macroscopic Models

• Condensed Phase Reactions I: Gas/Solid Collisions

• Chemical Reactions in Liquids

• Ultrafast Irreversible Processes

• Molecular Friction

• Vibrational Relaxation in Liquids

• Diffusion in Fluids

 

• Gas Phase Beginnings
  
  For fledgling theorists, atoms in gases make fine first classes.
  
  1. Accurate Analytic Static and Dynamic Polarizabilities for H- via the Asymptotic Approximation, S.A. Adelman, Phys. Rev., A5, 508-514 (1972).
  
  2. Coulomb Approximation for Analytic Multipole Polarizabilities of Ground and Excited State Atoms, S.A. Adelman and A. Szabo, Phys. Rev. Lett., 22, 1427-1430 (1972).
  
  3. Two Photon Detachment Cross-Section of H-, S.A. Adelman, J. Phys. B.6, 1986-1991 (1973).
  
  4. Asymptotic Approximation for Ionic-Covalent Configuration Mixing in Hydrogen and Alkali Hydrides, S.A. Adelman and D.R. Herschbach, Mol. Phys., 33, 793-809 (1977).

• Liquids in Equilibrium I : Ions and Dipoles
  
  Salt solutions are mundane potions which cry out for profound new notions.
  
  1. Exact Solutions of the Mean Spherical Model for Strong Electrolytes in Polar Solvents, S. A. Adelman and J. Deutch, J. Chem. Phys., 60, 3935-3949 (1974).
  
  2. The Effective Direct Correlation Function: An Approach to the Theory of Liquid Solutions, S.A. Adelman, J. Chem. Phys., 64, 724-731 (1976).
  
  3. Theory of Non-Primitive Electrolyte Solutions: Generalized Electrostatic Model for the Equilibrium Properties of Ionic-Polar Mixtures, S.A. Adelman and J.-H. Chen, J. Chem. Phys., 70, 4291-4309 (1979).
  

• Friction and Noise I : Macroscopic Models
  
  Despite establishment wisdom, fluid mechanics is for flow through pipes—not molecules.
  
  1. Microscopic Theory of Polymer Internal Viscosity: Mode Coupling Approximation for the Rouse Model, S.A. Adelman and K.F. Freed, J. Chem. Phys., 67, 1380-1393 (1977).
  
  2. Transport Properties of Concentrated Polymer Solutions: Hydrodynamic Screening Theory of Viscous Friction in a Suspension of Spheres., C.Y. Mou and S.A. Adelman, J. Chem. Phys., 69, 3135-3145 (1978).
  
  3. Macroscopic Model for Solvated Ion Dynamics, J.H. Chen and S.A. Adelman, J. Chem. Phys., 72, 2819-2831 (1980).
  
  
  
  
  
• Condensed Phase Reactions I: Gas/Solid Collisions
  
  A little bit of solid can go a long way.
  
  1. Generalized Langevin Equation Approach for Atom/Solid Surface Scattering: General Formulation for Classical Scattering off Harmonic Solids, S.A. Adelman and J.D. Doll, J. Chem. Phys., 64, 23752388 (1976).
  
  
  
  
• Chemical Reactions in Liquids
  
  Feel like a reacting solute. Take a roller coaster ride into a wall!
  
  1. Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Liquid Solution, S. A. Adelman, Adv. Chem. Phys., 53, 61 (1983).
  
  2. Generalized Langevin Theory for Many-Body Problems in Chemical Dynamics: The Method of Partial Clamping and Formulation of the Solute Equations of Motion in Generalized Coordinates, S. A. Adelman, J. Chem. Phys., 81, 2776, (1984).
  
  3. Theory of Liquid Phase Activated Barrier Crossing: The Instantaneous Potential and the Parabolic Model, S. A. Adelman and R. Muralidhar, J. Chem. Phys., 95, 2752 (1991).
  
  4. Irreversible Motion on Macroscopic and Molecular Timescales and Chemical Dynamics in Liquids”, S.A. Adelman and R. Ravi, Adv. Chem. Phys. 115, 181-243 (2000).
  
  
  
  
• Ultrafast Irreversible Processes
  
  What a difference a picosecond makes.
  
  1. Irreversible Motion on Macroscopic and Molecular Timescales and Chemical Dynamics in Liquids”, S.A. Adelman and R. Ravi, Adv. Chem. Phys. 115, 181-243 (2000).
  
  
  
  
• Molecular Friction
  
  Despite delivered dogma, brass balls in a bathtub do not hydronium ions make.
  
  1. Molecular Theory of Liquid Phase Vibrational Energy Relaxation, S. A. Adelman, R. Ravi, R. Muralidhar, and R. H. Stote, Adv. Chem. Phys., 84, 73 (1993).
  
  2. Theory of Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquids: Vibrational-Translational-Rotational Energy Transfer, S. A. Adelman, R. H. Stote, and R. Muralidhar, J. Chem. Phys., 99, 1327 (1993).
  
  3. Theory of Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquids: Vibrational-Vibrational Energy Transfer, S. A. Adelman, R. Muralidhar, and R. H. Stote, J. Chem. Phys., 99, 1333 (1993).
  
  
  
  
• Vibrational Relaxation in Liquids
  
  “A complete theory if vibrational relaxation in liquids poses many problems of high order.” - C. Delalande and G.M Gale.
  
  1. Time Correlation Function Approach to Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquids: Revised Results for Monatomic Solvents and a Comparison with the Isolated Binary Collision Model, S.A. Adelman, R. Muralidhar, and R.H. Stote, J. Chem. Phys., 95, 2738 (1991).
  
  2. Comparison of Two Simple Models for High Frequency Friction: Exponential versus Gaussian Wings, S.A. Adelman, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113 (16), 5528-5536, 2009
  
  3. Short Timescale Dynamics and the Correlation between Liquid and Gas Phase Vibrational Energy Relaxation Rates, S.A. Adelman, submitted to J. Phys. Chem., July, 2009.

• Diffusion in Fluids
  
  Diffusion is slow in liquids and fast in gases, but one determines the other for all atomic masses.
  
  1. Short Time Scale Dynamics and a Second Correlation between Liquid and Gas Phase Chemical Rates: Diffusion Processes in Noble Gas Fluids, S.A. Adelman and Pelin Cox, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 15610 (2010).