• Home
  • Dr. Anderson L. Marsh
Dr. Anderson L. Marsh

Anderson Marsh

Vernon and Doris Bishop Professor of Chemistry
Director of Chemistry Engineering Track

Email: marsh@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6149

Office Location: Neidig-Garber 404

Expertise:
Physical Chemistry

Research & Practice Areas:
Surface chemistry and nanoscience as they relate to catalysis, alternative energy, and environmental remediation.

  • Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award, Lebanon Valley College, 2013
  • E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry Teaching at Small Colleges, ACS Middle Atlantic, 2013
  • 2019 ACS Physical Chemistry Exam Committee

Many of the reactions that take place in an industrial setting or out in the environment occur at interfaces. Our work is focused on understanding how the structure of solid surfaces affects their reactivity for the removal of pollutants from wastewater using nanomaterials, during catalysis for environmentally friendly processes, in the interaction of nanomaterials with environmental systems, and in the photochemistry of small molecules on ice films. We prepare materials with selected surface structures and characterize them using microscopy and spectroscopy. We then use these materials in reaction studies. Our end goal is to correlate surface properties with reactivity to design materials that result in a positive impact on our environment.