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Prof. Topper Gives Talk at 57th Sanibel Symposium

POSTED ON: February 22, 2017

Professor Topper gave an invited lecture on his joint work with John Biswakarma, BSE’15 and Vlad Ciocoi ChE’15, MEng’15 on, "Unusual hydrogen bond diversity in ammonium halide nanoclusters," at the 57th Sanibel Symposium, University of Florida Quantum Theory Project,
St. Simons Island, GA. Their paper, researched while John and Vlad were still undergraduates, was published in an ACS journal.

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