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D-Index
55
Citations
8981
World Ranking
12340
National Ranking
3290

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Franz M. Geiger is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in several scientific fields, including Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects with notable focus on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, and Chemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions.

Frequent coauthors with whom Franz M. Geiger has collaborated include:

  • Regan J. Thomson
  • Jonathan G. Varelas
  • V. Faye McNeill
  • Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
  • Emily Ma

The scientist has published numerous papers across various academic venues. The most frequent venues of publication are:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • WASSERWIRTSCHAFT
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Franz M. Geiger include:

  • "Oxide- and Silicate-Water Interfaces and Their Roles in Technology and the Environment," 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • "Water Structure in the Electrical Double Layer and the Contributions to the Total Interfacial Potential at Different Surface Charge Densities," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A New Imaginary Term in the Second-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility from Charged Interfaces," 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor," 2024, Nature Geoscience
  • "Large Gas-Phase Source of Esters and Other Accretion Products in the Atmosphere," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Franz M. Geiger has received recognition in their field with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2007

Best Publications

  • Bringing the ocean into the laboratory to probe the chemical complexity of sea spray aerosol

    Kimberly A. Prather;Timothy H. Bertram;Vicki H. Grassian;Grant B. Deane

  • Second Harmonic Generation, Sum Frequency Generation, and χ(3): Dissecting Environmental Interfaces with a Nonlinear Optical Swiss Army Knife

    Franz M. Geiger

  • Size-Dependent Changes in Sea Spray Aerosol Composition and Properties with Different Seawater Conditions

    Andrew P. Ault;Ryan C. Moffet;Jonas Baltrusaitis;Douglas B. Collins

  • Aqueous proton transfer across single-layer graphene

    Jennifer L. Achtyl;Raymond R. Unocic;Lijun Xu;Yu Cai

  • Phase-referenced nonlinear spectroscopy of the α-quartz/water interface.

    Paul E. Ohno;Sarah A. Saslow;Sarah A. Saslow;Hong Fei Wang;Franz M. Geiger

  • Second-order spectral lineshapes from charged interfaces

    Paul E. Ohno;Hong Fei Wang;Franz M. Geiger

  • Biological responses to engineered nanomaterials: Needs for the next decade

    Catherine J. Murphy;Ariane M. Vartanian;Franz M. Geiger;Robert J. Hamers

  • Lipopolysaccharide Density and Structure Govern the Extent and Distance of Nanoparticle Interaction with Actual and Model Bacterial Outer Membranes.

    Kurt H. Jacobson;Kurt H. Jacobson;Ian L. Gunsolus;Thomas R. Kuech;Julianne M. Troiano

  • Raman microspectroscopy and vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy as probes of the bulk and surface compositions of size-resolved sea spray aerosol particles

    Andrew P. Ault;Defeng Zhao;Carlena J. Ebben;Michael J. Tauber

  • Highly Oxygenated Multifunctional Compounds in α-pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol

    Xuan Zhang;Andrew T. Lambe;Mary Alice Upshur;William A. Brooks

  • Changing shapes and implied viscosities of suspended submicron particles

    Yuzhong Zhang;M S Sanchez;M S Sanchez;Clair Douet;Yichao Wang

  • Interfacial acidities, charge densities, potentials, and energies of carboxylic acid-functionalized silica/water interfaces determined by second harmonic generation.

    Christopher T Konek;Michael J Musorrafiti;Hind A Al-Abadleh;Paul A Bertin

  • The summertime Boreal forest field measurement intensive (HUMPPA-COPEC-2010): an overview of meteorological and chemical influences

    J. Williams;J. Crowley;H. Fischer;H. Harder

  • Hydrogen chloride-induced surface disordering on ice

    V. Faye McNeill;Thomas Loerting;Thomas Loerting;Franz M. Geiger;Bernhardt L. Trout

  • In-situ probe of gate dielectric-semiconductor interfacial order in organic transistors: origin and control of large performance sensitivities.

    Stephanie R. Walter;Jangdae Youn;Jonathan D. Emery;Sumit Kewalramani

  • Surface-Amplified Ligand Disorder in CdSe Quantum Dots Determined by Electron and Coherent Vibrational Spectroscopies

    Matthew T. Frederick;Jennifer L. Achtyl;Kathryn E. Knowles;Emily A. Weiss

  • Synthesis and Second-Harmonic Generation Studies of Noncentrosymmetric Gold Nanostructures

    Marie L. Sandrock;Charles D. Pibel;Franz M. Geiger;Colby A. Foss

  • Observations and implications of liquid–liquid phase separation at highrelative humidities in secondary organic material produced by α -pinene ozonolysis without inorganic salts

    Lindsay Renbaum-Wolff;Lindsay Renbaum-Wolff;Mijung Song;Mijung Song;Claudia Marcolli;Yue Zhang;Yue Zhang

  • Bulk Contributions Modulate the Sum-Frequency Generation Spectra of Water on Model Sea-Spray Aerosols

    Sandeep K. Reddy;Raphael Thiraux;Bethany A. Wellen Rudd;Lu Lin

  • Direct Probes of 4 nm Diameter Gold Nanoparticles Interacting with Supported Lipid Bilayers

    Julianne M. Troiano;Laura L. Olenick;Thomas R. Kuech;Eric S. Melby

  • Making “Sense” of DNA

    Grace Y. Stokes;Julianne M. Gibbs-Davis;Faith C. Boman;Brian R. Stepp

  • Observations of sesquiterpenes and their oxidation products in central Amazonia during the wet and dry seasons

    Lindsay D. Yee;Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz;Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz;Rebecca A. Wernis;Meng Meng;Meng Meng

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong-fei Wang
Hong-fei Wang Fudan University
Scot T. Martin
Scot T. Martin Harvard University
Qiang Cui
Qiang Cui Boston University
Patrick L. Hayes
Patrick L. Hayes University of Montreal
SonBinh T. Nguyen
SonBinh T. Nguyen Northwestern University
Victor S. Batista
Victor S. Batista Yale University
Catherine J. Murphy
Catherine J. Murphy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mario J. Molina
Mario J. Molina University of California, San Diego
Thomas F. Miller
Thomas F. Miller California Institute of Technology
Robert J. Hamers
Robert J. Hamers University of Wisconsin–Madison

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