RADIATION CHEMISTRY AT NOTRE DAME 1943-1994†‡ Robert H. Schuler
Abstract–Radiation chemical research originated at Notre Dame in the early 1940's when the 2 MeV Van de Graaff of the Notre Dame Physics Department was used to resolve radiation chemical problems relating to interests of the Manhattan Project. Early studies involved examination of the overall course of radiation effects by conventional chemical methods. These studies mainly employed spectrophotometric gas analysis and scavenger techniques to examine the course of radiolysis. In the period since the early 1960's pulse radiolysis methods incorporating time resolved absorption spectrophotometric, electron spin resonance and resonance Raman detection have been added to these methodologies. Currently these time resolved studies are complemented by chromatographic measurements which provide very detailed information on the overall course of radiation chemical reactions. The addition of laser flash photolysis methods in the mid 1970's also has augmented the mechanistic information available from the Laboratory's radiation chemical studies. The state-of-the-art of these various approaches, as currently practiced in the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, is described. † Presented 10 September 1994 at the Historical Session of the 4th International Meeting of Pulse Investigations in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Lodz, Poland held in honor of Professor J. Kroh of the Technical University of Lodz. The research described herein was supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy. This is contribution No. NDRL-3748 from the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory. ‡ A bibliography of the Radiation Laboratory's reports is available as document SR 138. This document lists 3670 publications and meeting presentations and 162 special reports issued from the Laboratory from 1946 to 1993. It also includes publications from the Mellon Institute Radiation Research Laboratory which merged with the Radiation Laboratory in 1976.
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