ANNUAL REPORT 2011 - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia

Main Researcher: (IEM-CSIC) Salvador Montero Martín.Coordinator: José Cernicharo Quintanilla.Duration: January 2010-December 2014.Objectives: Several key topics in the areas of molecular complexity in space and in the chemistry of regions of starand planet formation: water in the universe, carbon chemistry, deuterium, chemical complexity, ionization andphotodissociation, oxygen and nitrogen chemistry, molecular tracers of shocks, interstellar dust grain chemistry.Espectroscopía Láser de Gases de Interés en la Atmósfera o en Procesos de Combustión.Code or Reference: FIS2009-08069.Funding Institution:DGI (MICINN).Main Researcher:José Luis Doménech Martínez.Duration: January 2009-December 2012.Objectives: To apply the laser spectroscopy techniques implemented in our Laboratory to the study ofgas-phasemolecular systems of relevance in atmospheric or in combustion processes. The goal of thestudies is to obatainspectroscopic parameters of use in the interpretation of field measurements, and toverify formalisms and potentialenergy surfaces to advance in the knowledge of the physics ofmolecular collisions.Estudio teórico-experimental de colisiones moleculares y condensación: de la fase gas a microchorros dehidrógeno líquido.Code or Reference: FIS2010-22064-C02.Funding Institution: MICINN.Main Researcher: José Mª Fernández Sánchez.Duration:January 2011-December 2013.Objectives:State-to-state rate coefficients for inelastic collisions of CO and O2at low temperature, homogeneousclustering of O2, and search for supefluidity in highly undercooled liquid microjets of para-H2.Investigation of superfluidity in highly supercooled para-hydrogen by means of inelastic light scattering.Code or Reference: HD2008-0068.Funding Institution: MICINN.Main Researcher: José Mª Fernández Sánchez.Duration: January 2009-March 2011.Objectives: Prospective experiments to search for the predicted superfluidity in liquid para-hydrogen.Coherent control of molecular states with ultrafast laser pulses.Code or Reference: DE2009-0088.Funding Institution: MICINN.Main Researcher: Mirta Rodríguez Pinilla.Duration: January 2010-December 2011.Objectives: Modelling and analysis of photon-induced charge-transfer in molecules including control by externalfields and relaxation processes.Fenómenos Coherentes En Gases De Moléculas Dipolares Ultrafrías.Code or Reference: FIS2010-18799.Funding Institution: MICINN.Main Researcher: Mirta Rodríguez Pinilla (Jan.-Oct.), Julio Santos Gómez (from Nov.)Duration: January 2011-December 2013.Objectives: Theoretical study of the simultaneous control of rotational and translational degrees of freedom ofultracold dipolar molecules, using static and time-dependent electromagnetic fields.3.4 DPTO. DE FÍSICA MACROMOLECULAR / MACROMOLECULAR PHYSICSEstructura, dinámica y sus interrelaciones en materiales poliméricos nanoestructurados en una, dos y tresdimensiones.Code or Reference: MAT2009-07789.Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Main Researcher: Tiberio A. Ezquerra Sanz.Duration: January 2010-December 2012.Objectives: To advance in the understanding of the underlying physics soft matter nanostructuring.Modelización y simulación de sistemas complejos.Code or Reference:MODÉLICO-CM(P2009ESP-1691).85