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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work in the application of stateresolved and universal ion imaging techniques to a broad range of problems in chemical physics and reaction dynamics

Overview

Arthur G. Suits is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within physical chemistry and physics, with a particular focus on reaction dynamics and molecular spectroscopy.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications

Main fields of study covered by their publications include Physics and Astronomy as well as Chemistry, with more focused work in subfields like Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Spectroscopy, Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Several publication venues have frequently featured their work. The most notable venues include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Faraday Discussions
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Some of their recent papers illustrate the range and depth of their research:

  • "Roaming Reactions and Dynamics in the van der Waals Region" (2020), published in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  • "State-to-state scattering of highly vibrationally excited NO at broadly tunable energies" (2020), published in Nature Chemistry
  • "Orbiting resonances in formaldehyde reveal coupling of roaming, radical, and molecular channels" (2021), published in Science
  • "Isomer-specific kinetics of the C + + H 2O reaction at the temperature of interstellar clouds" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Molecular square dancing in CO-CO collisions" (2020), published in Science

Frequent collaborators include Hua Guo, Shameemah Thawoos, Nureshan Dias, Ranil M. Gurusinghe, and Chandika Amarasinghe, reflecting a sustained engagement in collaborative research efforts.

Throughout their career, Arthur G. Suits has been recognized by professional societies, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. Additionally, they were awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 for pioneering work in state-resolved and universal ion imaging techniques applied to chemical physics and reaction dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The roaming atom: straying from the reaction path in formaldehyde decomposition

    David Townsend;Sridhar A Lahankar;Suk Kyoung Lee;Suk Kyoung Lee;Suk Kyoung Lee;Steven D Chambreau

  • Direct current slice imaging

    David Townsend;Michael P Minitti;Arthur G Suits

  • Roaming Atoms and Radicals : A New Mechanism in Molecular Dissociation

    Arthur G. Suits

  • Phagocytosis of aggregated lipoprotein by macrophages: low density lipoprotein receptor-dependent foam-cell formation

    Arthur G. Suits;Alan Chait;Michael Aviram;Jay W. Heinecke

  • Performance of the vacuum ultraviolet high-resolution and high-flux beamline for chemical dynamics studies at the Advanced Light Source

    P. A. Heimann;M. Koike;C. W. Hsu;D. Blank

  • The "Ozone Deficit" Problem: O2(X, v ≥ 26) + O(3P) from 226-nm Ozone Photodissociation

    R. L. Miller;A. G. Suits;P. L. Houston;R. Toumi

  • Megapixel ion imaging with standard video

    Wen Li;Steven D. Chambreau;Sridhar A. Lahankar;Arthur G. Suits

  • A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Formation of Interstellar C3H Isomers

    R. I. Kaiser;C. Ochsenfeld;M. Head-Gordon;Y. T. Lee

  • Imaging the alignment angular distribution: State symmetries, coherence effects, and nonadiabatic interactions in photodissociation

    Allan S. Bracker;Eloy R. Wouters;Arthur G. Suits;Oleg S. Vasyutinskii

  • Differential cross sections for state-selected products by direct imaging : Ar+NO

    A. G. Suits;L. S. Bontuyan;P. L. Houston;B. J. Whitaker

  • Roaming-mediated isomerization in the photodissociation of nitrobenzene

    Michael L. Hause;Nuradhika Herath;Rongshun Zhu;Ming-Chang Lin

  • State-Resolved Differential Cross Sections for Crossed-Beam Ar-NO Inelastic Scattering by Direct Ion Imaging

    L. S. Bontuyan;A. G. Suits;P. L. Houston;B. J. Whitaker

  • Universal crossed molecular beams apparatus with synchrotron photoionization mass spectrometric product detection

    X. Yang;J. Lin;Y. T. Lee;D. A. Blank

  • Conformationally Controlled Chemistry: Excited-State Dynamics Dictate Ground-State Reaction

    Myung Hwa Kim;Myung Hwa Kim;Lei Shen;Hongli Tao;Todd J. Martinez

  • A COUPLED-CLUSTER AB INITIO STUDY OF TRIPLET C3H2 AND THE NEUTRAL-NEUTRAL REACTION TO INTERSTELLAR C3H

    Christian Ochsenfeld;Ralf I. Kaiser;Yuan T. Lee;Arthur G. Suits

  • Imaging in chemical dynamics

    Arthur G. Suits;Robert E. Continetti

  • Crossed-beam reaction of carbon atoms with hydrocarbon molecules. III: Chemical dynamics of propynylidyne (l-C3H;X 2Πj) and cyclopropynylidyne (c-C3H;X 2B2) formation from reaction of C(3Pj) with acetylene, C2H2(X 1Σg+)

    R. I. Kaiser;C. Ochsenfeld;M. Head-Gordon;Y. T. Lee

  • A differentially pumped harmonic filter on the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Advanced Light Source

    Arthur G. Suits;Philip Heimann;Xueming Yang;Matt Evans

  • Roaming reactions: The third way

    Joel M. Bowman;Arthur G. Suits

  • UV photodissociation of oxalyl chloride yields four fragments from one photon absorption

    Musahid Ahmed;David Blunt;Daniel Chen;Arthur G. Suits

  • Primary and secondary processes in the 193 nm photodissociation of vinyl chloride

    David A. Blank;Weizhong Sun;Arthur G. Suits;Yuan T. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee Academia Sinica
Musahid Ahmed
Musahid Ahmed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ad van der Avoird
Ad van der Avoird Radboud University
Joel M. Bowman
Joel M. Bowman Emory University
Alexander M. Mebel
Alexander M. Mebel Florida International University
Paul L. Houston
Paul L. Houston Cornell University
Hua Guo
Hua Guo University of New Mexico
Todd J. Martínez
Todd J. Martínez Stanford University
Thomas Gustavsson
Thomas Gustavsson University of Paris-Saclay

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