Marie Payne Graham Lecture
On the Nature of the Entropic Bond
On the Nature of the Entropic Bond
3:30PM MEC 205
by Hannah Musgrove, UVA ChemSciComm
For decades, astrochemists have been using infrared (IR) spectroscopy to determine what types of molecules are present during the creation of stars.The data from this method have long identified the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the clouds of gas and dust that eventually warm up to form stellar nurseries as well as new planets (Fig. 1).