John Determan

Biochar is a useful way to store carbon that cannot be easily released back into the atmosphere. When burned at low temperatures, they can be highly functionalized to bond to lighter metals. At higher burning temperatures, they are porous and aromatic and bind to heavier metals…

This research project seeks to use nanoparticles to detect the presence of illicit drugs such as a methamphetamine analog. Nanoparticles have a diameter of less than 100 nanometers. Coinage metal like copper, silver, and gold nanoparticles are relatively stable with high refractive indices…

Illicit drug use and addiction is a wide-reaching crisis. After only a few hours, some illicit drugs become undetectable because the body metabolizes it quickly. Having an efficient onsite test that can be utilized by officers or EMTs is necessary for countering this problem…

Compact all-electron correlation consistent basis sets (cc-pVNZ and related) were previously designed by Mahler and Wilson for use with ab initio computational methods…

Correlation consistent basis sets (cc-pVxZ) were designed by Thomas Dunning Jr. and co-workers and have shown systematic improvement with increase of size…