Ian Carmichael

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Biography

Professor Carmichael received his BSc and PhD from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1971 and 1974 respectively. He spent two years at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on a British Royal Society Science Exchange Fellowship. He joined the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory in 1976 and was appointed Director in 2004

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Research Interests

Ionizing radiation pervades our environment and affects all life on earth. The absorption of this impinging energy can produce profound chemical and biochemical transformations in the materials irradiated. Professor Carmichael's research provides a fundamental molecular-level understanding of the effects of the interaction of such radiation with matter in the condensed phase. The work is performed in the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, the premier facility for radiation chemical research supported by the Chemical Sciences Division of Basic Energy Sciences at the US Department of Energy. The Laboratory provides both unique experimental tools and unique opportunities for focused interdisciplinary collaborations. The knowledge gained from this research provides the scientific basis for solving problems in environmental waste management and remediation, nuclear energy production, capture and chemical conversion of solar energy, and radiation therapy.

Specific topics currently under active investigation include

Electron-driven processes in condensed phases
Excited species in water radiolysis; radical formation in irradiated organic liquids

Radiation effects in heterogeneous systems and at interfaces
Radiation chemistry at water-ceramic oxide interfaces; theoretical characterization of ceramic oxide surfaces

Charge transfer in hybrid assemblies
Charge separation and transport in conjugated polymers

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Recent Papers

Room temperature scavengers for macromolecular crystallography: increased lifetimes and modified dose dependence of the intensity decay
AI Barker, RJ Southworth-Davies, KS Paithankar, I Carmichael and EF Garman
J Synchr Radiat 16 205-16 (2009) Link
A DFT investigation of intermediate steps in the hydrolysis of α−Al2O3(0001)
VA Ranea, I Carmichael and WF Schneider
J. Phys. Chem. C 113 2149-58 (2009) Link
DFT characterization of coverage dependent molecular water absorption on α−Al2O3(0001)
VA Ranea, I Carmichael and WF Schneider
Surf Sci 602 268-75 (2008) Link
13C labeled N-acetyl-neuraminic acid in aqueous solution: Detection and quantification of acyclic keto, hydrate and enol forms by 13C NMR
TE Klepach, I Carmichael and AS Serianni
J Am Chem Soc 130 11892-900 (2008) Link
Homo- and Heterodimetallic Geminal Dianions Derived from the Bisphosphinimine {Ph2P(Me3Si)N}2CH2 and the Alkali Metals Li, Na and K
KL Hull, I Carmichael, BC Noll and KW Henderson
Chem Eur J 14 3939 – 53 (2008) Link
Observation of decreased radiation damage at higher dose rates in room temperature protein crystallography
RJ Southworth-Davies, MA Medina, I Carmichael and EF Garman
Structure 15 1531-41 (2007) Link

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