Terror in a bottle: Chemistry's answer to national security
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Profile
Matthew Augustine, associate professor of chemistry
Augustine and his graduate students are working on ways to use nuclear magnetic resonance, luminescence, ultrasound and other techniques in chemistry. One of their interests is to apply physics to study wine.
In fact, the Augustine lab created a machine using nuclear magnetic resonance to determine the chemical composition of wine. The University of California has licensed the technology to a private company, and two U.S. patents have been issued to the university for Augustine's technology on "Methods and Devices for Analysis of Sealed Containers."
Augustine joined the faculty at UC Davis in 1997 after earning a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate from Yale. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a David and Lucille Packard Fellowship, a National Science Foundation early career development award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
Contact: Matthew Augustine, Chemistry, (530) 754-7550, augustine@chem.ucdavis.edu