Education
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PhD in Physical Chemistry, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, in Münster, Germany
Description of Research
Dr. Zamponi works in inelastic neutron scattering, soft condensed matter, and polymer dynamics research. Before coming to ORNL in 2007 as an instrument scientist for the Jülich Center for Neutron Science at SNS, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center Jülich, Germany.
Selected Publications
M. Zamponi, M. Monkenbusch, L. Willner, A. Wischnewski, B. Farago, and D. Richter, Contour length fluctuations in polymer melts: A direct molecular proof, Europhysics Letters 72 1039 (2005)
M. Zamponi, A. Wischnewski, M. Monkenbusch, L. Willner, D. Richter, A.E. Likthman, G. Kali, and B. Farago, Molecular observation of constraint release in polymer melts, Physical Review Letters 96, 238302 (2006)
M. Prager, A. Pietraszko, L. Sobczyk, A. Pawlukojc, E. Grech, T. Seydel, A. Wischnewki, and M. Zamponi, X-ray diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering study of 1:1 tetramethylpyrazine chloranilic acid complex: temperature, isotope and pressure effects, Journal of Chemical Physics 125 194525 (2006)
J. Voss, Q. Shi, H.S. Jacobson, M. Zamponi, K. Lefman, and T. Vegge, Hydrogen dynamics in Na3AlH5: A combined density functional theory and quasielastic neutron scattering study, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111 3886 (2007)
M. Tehei, B. Franzetti, K. Wood, F. Gabel, E. Fabiani, M. Jasnin, M. Zamponi, D. Oesterhelt, and G. Zaccai, Neutron scattering reveals extremely slow cell water in Dead Sea organism, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 766 (2007)
Contact Information
Michaela Zamponi
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008 MS-6475
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475
Telephone: 865.576.5119
Fax: 865.574.6080
E-mail: zamponimm@ornl.gov |
