Year
2016
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Chemistry
Recommended Citation
Vaughn, Bartholomew S., Development of single microdroplet techniques for fundamental chemical measurements, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, 2016. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4946
Abstract
A significant number of current techniques that probe chemical and physical processes in single microdroplets focus on the measurement of long timescale processes. Probing short timescale processes (<100 μs) in single microdroplet domains has been largely prohibitive. Therefore, new experimental techniques are required to probe short timescale chemical transformations in microdroplets. In this thesis, experiments on single free-falling microdroplets that probe chemistry and physics of photoactivated reactions are reported. Single microdroplets are generated using drop-on-demand droplet generation and subsequently interrogated using various pulsed laser systems. The principal advantage of single microdroplet techniques is that each microdroplet is a chemically isolated and self-contained reaction vessel. This allows chemical and physical transformations to be probed with no crosscontamination between microdroplets.
FoR codes (2008)
0301 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, 0306 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.