Joe V. Michael

Senior Chemist,
Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase
Argonne National Laboratory
Bldg. 200, D193
Chemistry Division
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
Phone: 630-252-3171
Fax: 630-252-4470
E-mail: jmichael@anl.gov

AAS Fellow Award

Areas of Research and Expertise:

Working with the absolute rates of chemical reactions in thermally
reacting systems. Most of the work has been in support of
practical disciplines such as atmospheric chemistry or the chemistry
of combustion using a variety of techniques including discharge
flow tube and flash or laser photolysis methods with atomic
resonance absorption and/or fluorescence spectrometric detection.
When appropriate, laser induced fluorescence has also been used
to detect reacting species. When appropriate, laser induced
fluorescence has also been used to detect reacting species. In
recent years, these methods have been applied to high temperature
chemistry, and absolute values of thermal rate constants can now
be directly determined by using the shock tube technique.

Recent Publications

Rate Constants for CH₃ + H₂ ® CF₃H + H and CF₃H + H ®
CF₃ + H₂ Reactions in the Temperature Range 1100-1600 K,
J. Hranisavljevic and J. V. Michael, J. Phys. Chem. A 102 (39),
7668-7673 (1998)

Thermal Decomposition of CF₃ using Br-atom Absorption,
J. Hranisavljevic, J. J. Carroll, M.-C. Su, and J. V. Michael,
Int. J. Chem. Kin. 30, 859-867 (1998)

Thermal Decomposition Studies of Halogenated Organic
Compounds, J. V. Michael and S. S. Kumaran, Combust.
Sci. and Tech. 134, 31-44 (1998)

Simultaneous Adjustment of Experimentally Based Enthalpies
of Formation of CF₃X, X = nil, H, Cl, Br, I, CF₃, CN, and a
Probe of G3 Theory, B. Ruscic, J. V. Michael, P. C. Redfern,
L. A. Curtiss, and K. Raghavachari, J. Phys. Chem. A 102 (52),
10889-10899 (1998)

The Branching Ratio in the Thermal Decomposition of H₂CO,
S. S. Kumaran, J. J. Carroll, and J. V. Michael, 27th Symposium
(International) on Combustion/The Combustion Institute 125-133
(1998)

H + CH₂CO ® CH₃ + CO at High Temperature: A High
Pressure Chemical Activation Reaction with Positive Barrier,
J. Hranisavljevic, S. S. Kumaran, and J. V. Michael, 27th
Symposium (International) on Combustion/The Combustion
Institute, 159-166 (1998)

Rate Constants for CH₃ + O₂ ® CH₃O + O at High Temperature
and Evidence for H₂CO + O₂ ® HCO + HO₂, J. V. Michael,
S. S. Kumaran, and M.-C. Su, J. Phys. Chem. A 103 (30),
5942-5948 (1999)

Thermal Rate Constants over Thirty Orders of Magnitude for the
I + H₂ Reaction, J. V. Michael, S. S. Kumaran, M.-C. Su, and
K. P. Lim, Chem. Phys. Lett. 319, 99-106 (2000)

Photolysis of Ketene at 193 nm and the Rate Constant for
H + HCCO at 297 K, G. P. Glass, S. S. Kumaran, and
J. V. Michael, J. Phys. Chem. A 104 (36), 8360-8367 (2000)

Initiation in H₂/O₂: Rate Constants for H₂ + O₂ ® H + HO₂
at High Temperature, J. V. Michael, J. W. Sutherland,
L. B. Harding, and A. F. Wagner, Proc. Combust. Inst. 28,
1471-1478 (2000)

Reply to Comment on "Rate Constants for CH₃ + O₂ ®
CH₃O + O at High Temperature and Evidence for H₂CO + O₂
® HCO + HO₂", J. V. Michael, S. S. Kumaran, and M.-C. Su,
J. Phys. Chem. A 104 (43), 9800-9802 (2000)

Atomic Resonance Absorption Spectroscopy with Flash or
Laser Photolysis in Shock Wave Experiments, J. V. Michael and
A. Lifshitz, Invited Chapter, Handbook of Shock Waves,
G. Ben-Dor, O. Igra, T. Elperin, and A. Lifshitz, Eds., Chemical
and Combustion Kinetics, Chapter 16.3, Academic Press,
New York pp. 77-105 (2001)

Rate Constants for H + CH₄ ® CH₃ + H₂, CH₃ + H₂ ®
CH₄ + H, and CH₄ Dissociation at High Temperature,
J. W. Sutherland, M.-C. Su, and J. V. Michael, Intl. J. Chem.
Kinetics 33 (11), 669-684 (2001)

Rate Constants, 1100<T<2000 K, for the Reaction, H + NO₂ ®
OH + NO, using Two Shock Tube Techniques: Comparison
of Theory to Experiment, M.-C. Su, S. S. Kumaran, K. P. Lim,
J. V. Michael, A. F. Wagner, L. B. Harding, and D.-C. Fang,
J. Phys. Chem. A 106 (36), 8261-8270 (2002)

Rate Constants for H + O₂ + M ® HO₂ + M in Seven Bath
Gases, J. V. Michael, M.-C. Su, J. W. Sutherland, J. J. Carroll,
and A. F. Wagner, J. Phys. Chem. A 106 (21), 5297-5313 (2002)

C₂D₅I Dissociation and D + CH₃ ® CH₂D + H at High Temperature:
Implications to the High-Pressure Rate Constant for CH₄ Dissociation,
M.-C. Su and J. V. Michael, Proc. of the Combustion Inst. 29,
1219-1227 (2002)

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