Dr Murray Booth
Postdoctoral Research Associate
MPhys Physics with Astrophysics (Manchester) 2003, PhD Synchrotron Surface Science of Pharmaceuticals (Manchester/UMIST) 2008
Room Number: [Simon Building]
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 6587
Email: alastair.booth@manchester.ac.uk
Professional biography
1999-2003 MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester
2003-2007 PhD in Chemical Engineering at UMIST/University of Manchester, Synchrotron surface science supervised by Dr Sven L. M. Schroeder
2007-Current Atmospheric Science Postdoctoral research under Dr Carl Percival, also working with Dr David Topping and Prof Gordon McFiggans
Publications
Booth, A. M., Braun, S., Lonsbourough, T., Purton, J., Patel, S., and Schroeder, S. L. M.: Pharmaceutical compounds studided using NEXAFS, API Conf. Proc., 882, 325-327, 2007.
Booth, A. M., Markus, T., McFiggans, G., Percival, C. J., Mcgillen, M. R., and Topping, D. O.: Design and construction of a simple Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometer (KEMS) system for vapour pressure measurements of low volatility organics, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2, 355-361, doi:10.5194/amt-2-355-2009, 2009.
Booth, A.M., Topping, D.O., McFiggans, G. and Percival, C.J. (2009) Design Surface tension of mixed inorganics and dicarboxylic acid aqueous solutions at 298.15 K and their importance for cloud activation predictions, PCCP, 11(36), 8021-8028.
Booth, A. M., Barley, M. H., Topping, D. O., McFiggans, G., Garforth, A., and Percival, C. J.: Solid state and sub-cooled liquid vapour pressures of substituted dicarboxylic acids using Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometry (KEMS) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4879-4892, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4879-2010, 2010.
Booth, A. M., Montague, W. J., Barley, M. H., Topping, D. O., McFiggans, G., Garforth, A., and Percival, C. J.: Solid state and sub-cooled liquid vapour pressures of cyclic aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 655-665, doi:10.5194/acp-11-655-2011, 2011.
Recent and forthcoming publications
A. Zuend, C. Marcolli, A. M. Booth, D. Lienhard, V. Soonsin, U. K. Krieger,
D. O. Topping, T. Peter, and J. H. Seinfeld: New and extended parameterization of the
thermodynamic model AIOMFAC: Calculation of activity coefficients for organic-inorganic mixtures containing carboxyl, hydroxyl, carbonyl, ether, ester, alkenyl, alkyl, and aromatic functional groups