John Freiderich

Washington State University

Projects

Large-scale computational modeling of the chemical transformation of actinide elements at interfaces

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Wibe De Jong

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Subsurface migration of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear energy and weapons production is a critical issue to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the safe and cost-effective disposal of…

Computational Studies of "Covalent Hydration" Reactions Involving Non-innocent 2-2'-bipyridine Ligands Within Ru Water Oxidation Catalysts

Lead Institution

Washington State University

Principal Investigator

Aurora Clark

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The notion that bipyridine ligands in catalysts such as [Ru(bpy)3]3+ and the "blue dimer" [(bpy)2Ru(OH2)]2O4+ might participate in water oxidation through formation of OH-substituted…