Rebecca Twidale

Co-author on two publications

During her 2^nd year UROP summer placement with Prof. Mike Bearpark, Rebecca participated in a theoretical study in attoscience: the description of long lived oscillatory electronic charge dynamics. The research resulted in a publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics:

Andrew J. Jenkins, Morgane Vacher, Rebecca M. Twidale, Michael J. Bearpark, and Michael A. Robb, ‘Charge migration in polycyclic norbornadiene cations: Winning the race against decoherence’ J. Chem. Phys. 2016, 145, 164103. DOI: 10.1063/1.4965436

During her 3d year UROP summer placement with Prof. Alexei Kornyshev, Rebecca was involved in an entirely different international project (with the participation of Prof. A. Kolomeisky of Rice University, USA). The project focussed on the development of the theory of electrochemical harvesting of mechanical motion with the ‘electrical double layer shoe’ for an AC current generation from walking. The study has revealed the law of reduction of the current due to ion transport limitations and has resulted in a publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry:

Alexei A. Kornyshev, Rebecca M. Twidale and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, ‘Current-Generating Double-Layer Shoe with a Porous Sole: Ion Transport Matters’ J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 7584–7595. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11385

Rebecca graduated in summer 2017 and has secured a PhD place in the joint Oxford/Bristol/Southampton EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences.