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Sandia National Laboratories Honors David Osborn’s Remarkable Career in Chemical Physics
Post, February 20, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories recently hosted a one-day “Colloquium on Chemical Dynamics” to celebrate the extraordinary career of David Osborn, a distinguished physical chemist in the Combustion Research Facility. The event brought together 70 colleagues, collaborators, and friends—including several who traveled from Europe—to honor David’s scientific contributions, leadership, and lasting impact...

Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model
Post, November 25, 2025 • CRF researchers, along with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Southeast University Nanjing, Columbia University, Polytecnico Milano, Brown University, Baylor University, and the Technical University of Denmark, have developed a theory-informed kinetics model (ThInK) for the small molecule chemistry (H2 and C1 – C3 species) that forms...

Theory of the tunneling ‘switch’
Post, August 27, 2026 • CRF researcher Timothy Zwier, together with Edwin Sibert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published a paper on "On the role of symmetry in quenching OH tunneling in 2,6-dimethylphenol" in "The Journal of Chemical Physics", providing more detailed theoretical descriptions of recent experiments that were interpreted to show that certain symmetry states...

Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal
Post, September 17, 2025 • Tim Zwier, was awarded the Miguel Catalán Medal at the XVIII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, July 21-24, 2025 in Vigo, Spain The medal, named for Prof. Miguel Catalán (1894-1957), honors a scientist for exceptional contributions and research record in the field of Atomic and Molecular Physics....

Transient Pulse-Response for Complex Systems
Post, May 6, 2026 • CRF researchers Nils Hansen, Emma Litzer, and David Osborn, together with colleagues Wenqi Zhou, Alexander R. Morey, Carey Chang and Coleman X. Kronawitter from UC Davis, published a paper on "Transient Pulse-Response Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Complex, Deactivating Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems: Application to Ethane Dehydroaromatization" in "The Journal of Physical...

Watching molecules move
Post, September 29, 2017 • Velocity-Mapped Ion Imaging hits 30 years of research at SandiaBy Michael PadillaThirty years ago, David Chandler (8300) built an apparatus at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility to image the fragments of a molecule as it fell apart. At the time, David had no idea what a tremendous impact his research would...
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