Marshall Newton

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-4366
newton@bnl.gov

Research | Education | Appointments | Publications

Research Activities

Electron- and Photo-Induced Processes for Molecular Energy Conversion

Research Iinterests

Mechanistic analysis of electron transfer kinetics: thermal and photoinitiated; intra- and intermolecular; homogeneous and interfacial. Calculation of nonequilibrium solvation thermodynamics for electron transfer (free energies and entropies) using quantum chemical techniques, molecular-level force fields, and dielectric continuum models. Formulation of compact electronic state spaces for modeling electron transfer, using optical spectroscopic data.

Education

B.A. Dartmouth College, 1961
M.A. Dartmough College, 1963
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1966

Professional Appointments

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1966-67;
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1967-68;
Mellon Fellow, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1968-69;
Associate Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 12/69-6/73;
Chemist, BNL, 7/73-6/75;
Chemist, with tenure, BNL, 7/75-3/79;
Assistant Chairman, BNL, 4/79-12/87;
Senior Chemist, BNL, 5/81-12/08
Senior Chemist Emeritus BNL, 1/09 - present
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10/13 -present

Selected Publications

• Matyushov DV, Newton MD (2019) Optical Absorption by Charge-Transfer Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 123:6564–6578. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04085
• Waskasi MM, Newton MD, Matyushov DV (2017) Impact of Temperature and Non-Gaussian Statistics on Electron Transfer in Donor–Bridge–Acceptor Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121:2665–2676. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00140
• Matyushov DV, Newton MD (2018) Thermodynamics of Reactions Affected by Medium Reorganization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122:12302–12311. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b08865
• Matyushov DV, Newton MD (2018) Q-model of electrode reactions: altering force constants of intramolecular vibrations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20:24176–24185. doi: 10.1039/c8cp03759k
• Matyushov DV, Newton MD (2017) Electrode reactions in slowly relaxing media. The Journal of Chemical Physics 147:194506. doi: 10.1063/1.5003022
• Matyushov DV, Newton MD (2017) Solvent-Induced Shift of Spectral Lines in Polar–Polarizable Solvents. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 121:2232–2240. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b00414
• Dinpajooh M, Newton MD, Matyushov DV (2017) Free energy functionals for polarization fluctuations: Pekar factor revisited. The Journal of Chemical Physics 146:064504. doi: 10.1063/1.4975625
• Mani T, Grills DC, Newton MD, Miller JR (2015) Electron Localization of Anions Probed by Nitrile Vibrations. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137:10979–10991. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04648
• Newton MD (2015) Extension of Hopfield's Electron Transfer Model To Accommodate Site–Site Correlation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119:14728–14737. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07456