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9152
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12750
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his creation of a worldclass synchrotron chemical dynamics facility serving the community and his unique marriage of lasers with synchrotron science, used to study small molecule spectroscopy and energetics, biological imaging, combustion, nanoparticle reactivity, and chemical dynamics

Overview

Musahid Ahmed is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within physics and chemistry, focusing particularly on atomic and molecular physics, optics, atmospheric science, organic chemistry, materials chemistry, and spectroscopy.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Chemistry

More specialized subfields of study are:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

Musahid Ahmed's main research topics cover:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Gas-phase synthesis of benzene via the propargyl radical self-reaction, 2021, Science Advances
  • From atoms to aerosols: probing clusters and nanoparticles with synchrotron based mass spectrometry and X-ray spectroscopy, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Formation of Benzene and Naphthalene through Cyclopentadienyl-Mediated Radical-Radical Reactions, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • A Direct Probe of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Aqueous Glycerol Aerosols, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Molecular Properties and Chemical Transformations Near Interfaces, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Musahid Ahmed has published extensively in several scientific venues, most frequently in:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Science Advances
  • Chemical Science

Among the scientist's frequent coauthors are:

  • Wenchao Lu
  • Ralf I. Kaiser
  • Alexander M. Mebel
  • Oleg Kostko
  • Long Zhao

Musahid Ahmed received the Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) honor in 2010. The citation notes their contribution through the creation of a synchrotron chemical dynamics facility and the integration of lasers with synchrotron science to study various phenomena, including small molecule spectroscopy, biological imaging, combustion, nanoparticle reactivity, and chemical dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Selective detection of isomers with photoionization mass spectrometry for studies of hydrocarbon flame chemistry

    Terrill A. Cool;Koichi Nakajima;Toufik A. Mostefaoui;Fei Qi

  • Photoionization mass spectrometer for studies of flame chemistry with a synchrotron light source

    Terrill A. Cool;Andrew McIlroy;Fei Qi;Phillip R. Westmoreland

  • The multiplexed chemical kinetic photoionization mass spectrometer: a new approach to isomer-resolved chemical kinetics.

    David L. Osborn;Peng Zou;Howard Johnsen;Carl C. Hayden

  • The heterogeneous reaction of hydroxyl radicals with sub-micron squalane particles: a model system for understanding the oxidative aging of ambient aerosols

    J. D. Smith;J. H. Kroll;C. D. Cappa;D. L. Che;D. L. Che

  • Room-temperature cycling of metal fluoride electrodes: Liquid electrolytes for high-energy fluoride ion cells

    Victoria K. Davis;Christopher M. Bates;Kaoru Omichi;Brett M. Savoie

  • Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization of small water clusters.

    Leonid Belau;Kevin R. Wilson;Stephen R. Leone;Musahid Ahmed

  • Hydrogen abstraction/acetylene addition revealed.

    Dorian S. N. Parker;Ralf I. Kaiser;Tyler P. Troy;Musahid Ahmed

  • Untangling the chemical evolution of Titan's atmosphere and surface–from homogeneous to heterogeneous chemistry

    Ralf I. Kaiser;Pavlo Maksyutenko;Courtney Ennis;Fangtong Zhang

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation from ozone-initiated reactions with nicotine and secondhand tobacco smoke

    Mohamad Sleiman;Hugo Destaillats;Hugo Destaillats;Jared D. Smith;Chen-Lin Liu

  • Vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization studies of the microhydration of DNA bases (guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine).

    Leonid Belau;Kevin R. Wilson;Stephen R. Leone;Musahid Ahmed

  • Thermal Vaporization of Biological Nanoparticles: Fragment-Free Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization Mass Spectra of Tryptophan, Phenylalanine−Glycine−Glycine, and β-Carotene

    Kevin R. Wilson;Michael Jimenez-Cruz;Christophe Nicolas;Leonid Belau

  • Energy-resolved photoionization of alkylperoxy radicals and the stability of their cations.

    Giovanni Meloni;Peng Zou;Stephen J. Klippenstein;Musahid Ahmed

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

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

  • Ionization Thresholds of Small Carbon Clusters: Tunable VUV Experiments and Theory

    Leonid Belau;Steven E. Wheeler;Brian W. Ticknor;Musahid Ahmed

  • Electronic structure and spectroscopy of nucleic acid bases: ionization energies, ionization-induced structural changes, and photoelectron spectra.

    Ksenia B. Bravaya;Oleg Kostko;Stanislav Dolgikh;Arie Landau

  • Pyrolysis of Furan in a Microreactor

    Kimberly N. Urness;Qi Guan;Amir Golan;John W. Daily

  • Investigating the chemical composition of mixed organic–inorganic particles by “soft” vacuum ultraviolet photoionization: The reaction of ozone with anthracene on sodium chloride particles

    Eric Gloaguen;Erin R. Mysak;Stephen R. Leone;Stephen R. Leone;Musahid Ahmed

  • Synchrotron Radiation Based Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Organic Constituents

    Erin R. Mysak;Kevin R. Wilson;Michael Jimenez-Cruz;Musahid Ahmed

  • Low-temperature formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Titan’s atmosphere

    Long Zhao;Ralf I. Kaiser;Bo Xu;Utuq Ablikim

  • Molecular mass growth through ring expansion in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via radical-radical reactions

    Long Zhao;Ralf. I. Kaiser;Wenchao Lu;Bo Xu

  • The effect of π-stacking, H-bonding, and electrostatic interactions on the ionization energies of nucleic acid bases: adenine–adenine, thymine–thymine and adenine–thymine dimers

    Ksenia B. Bravaya;Oleg Kostko;Musahid Ahmed;Anna I. Krylov

  • Chemical Dynamics, Molecular Energetics, and Kinetics at the Synchrotron

    Stephen R. Leone;Musahid Ahmed;Kevin R. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Leone
Stephen R. Leone University of California, Berkeley
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alexander M. Mebel
Alexander M. Mebel Florida International University
Kevin R. Wilson
Kevin R. Wilson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Arthur G. Suits
Arthur G. Suits University of Missouri
Mark H. Thiemens
Mark H. Thiemens University of California, San Diego
Anna I. Krylov
Anna I. Krylov University of Southern California
G. Barney Ellison
G. Barney Ellison University of Colorado Boulder
Mark R. Nimlos
Mark R. Nimlos National Renewable Energy Laboratory
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton University of Florida

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