Steve Bachofer  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Interests

• Peroxide Oxidation Studies: Chemical Kinetics of Organosulfide Oxidations
• Counterion Binding in Micellar Systems utilizing numerous methods
  Methods employed to study of cationic micelles includes: NMR, conductivity, chemical trapping, molecular fluorescence, and surface tension.
• Solubilization of Porphyrin Molecules into Model Membranes Studies to develop better photodynamic therapy agents (PDTs)
• Trapping Various Pollutants with Surfactant-modified Zeolites
  
• Wetlands
  

  Quantifying analytes in wetlands in urban and rural areas using screening methods

• X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) studies
  

  Demonstrating the utility of XRF to quantify various metals in soils and other media