To provide a fundamental understanding of energyintensive

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Chemical Sciences Division Fundamental
Interactions Program

• To provide a fundamental understanding of
  energy-intensive
• processes from atomic physics to natural
  photosynthesis
• Atomic, Molecular, Chemical, and Optical Physics
• Spectroscopy, excited-state dynamics and decay
  processes, electron-nuclear coupling in atoms,
  molecules, free radicals, and highly charged ions
• Kinetics and mechanisms of energy and momentum
  transfer processes in collisions and in simple
  chemical reactions via experiment and theory
• Development of diagnostic capabilities through
  improved spectroscopic understanding in
  conjunction with state-of-the-art laser
  technology
• Nonlinear optical phenomena
• Combustion Phenomena
• Experimental and theoretical studies to enable
  extrapolation and interpolation of chemical
  reaction rates reliably at temperatures
  characteristic of combustion
• Development and testing of theories beyond RRKM
  to enable predictive capabilities in real
  combustion systems
• Thermodynamics of reaction systems
• Catalysis
• Dynamics and chemical reactions at cluster
  surfaces
• Chemical and physical properties of metal and
  semiconductor clusters
• Solar Energy Conversion
• Light-induced charge separation and electron
  transfer in solution and at interfaces
• Mechanistic and kinetic studies of transient
  species produced via pulsed radiolysis and other
  techniques
• Natural photosynthesis as an efficient model of
  energy conversion for artificial systems