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Cristian Schulthess

Associate Professor, Plant Science

Mobility and fate of nutrients and contaminants in soil, Physical chemical behavior of compounds at interface

Phone: 860-486-1943
E-mail: c.schulthess@uconn.edu
Website: http://www.canr.uconn.edu/plsci/cps.html

My interests are on understanding the reactivity of organic and inorganic compounds in soils. These involve various investigative tools, such as:

Spectroscopic studies of the liquid-solid interfaces; surface charge as a function
of pH, ionic strength and components present in the mixture using electrophoresis equipment and acid-base titration studies; the impact of other ions present in the samples on the reaction processes, with emphasis on aqueous inorganic carbon species and of dissovled salts; and mechanistic mathematical modeling of the adsorption and desorption data. In summary, my research interests seek to understand the basic, fundamental chemical
processes that occur in our soils.