Silvina Pagola

Norfolk, Virginia Area United States

"Research Scientist" at the College of William and Mary and "Adjunct Associate Professor" at Hampton University

Education

I work as a part-time Chemistry professor and a researcher (Materials Science/Solid State Chemistry). My research area is mechanochemistry, the study of chemical reactions produced by mechanical energy (e.g. by grinding the reactants), avoiding or considerably reducing the use of reaction solvents, for which they are "green chemistry" synthetic methods. I am synthesizing charge transfer salts of tetrathiafulvalene (an electron donor) and studying their solid state properties. I have many years of experience in crystal structure determination of materials (organic and inorganic) from X-ray powder diffraction data. I carry out structure determinations using laboratory or synchrotron powder...