Faculty Profiles

Jacobs, M. I., Aleman, E. T., & Zepeda, R. G. (2025). Confocal Fluorescence Imaging of Levitated Microdroplets. Aerosol Science and Technology.

Jacobs, M. I., Johnston, M., & Mahmud, S. (2024). Exploring how the Surface-Area-to-Volume Ratio Influences the Partitioning of Surfactants to the Air-Water Interface in Levitated Microdroplets. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 128(46), 9986–9997.

Tu, M. Q., Nguyen, H. V., Foley, E., Jacobs, M. I., & Schroeder, C. M. (2023). 3D manipulation and dynamics of soft materials in 3D flows. Journal of Rheology, 67, 877–890. https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000600

Jacobs, M. I., Bansal, P., Shukla, D., & Schroeder, C. M. (2022). Understanding Supramolecular Assembly of Supercharged Proteins. ACS Central Science, 8(9), 1350–1361.

Jacobs, M. I., Jira, E. R., & Schroeder, C. M. (2021). Understanding How Coacervates Drive Reversible Small Molecule Reactions to Promote Molecular Complexity. Langmuir, 37(49), 14323--14335.

Rovelli, G., Jacobs, M. I., Willis, M. D., Rapf, R. J., Prophet, A. M., & Wilson, K. R. (2020). A critical analysis of electrospray techniques for the determination of accelerated rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions in droplets. Chemical Science, 11(48), 13026--13043.

Wilson, K. R., Prophet, A. M., Rovelli, G., Willis, M. D., Rapf, R. J., & Jacobs, M. I. (2020). A kinetic description of how interfaces accelerate reactions in micro-compartments. Chemical Science, 11(32), 8533--8545.

Barrozo, A., Xu, B., Gunina, A. O., Jacobs, M. I., Wilson, K., Kostko, O., … Krylov, A. I. (2019). To be or not to be a molecular ion: the role of the solvent in photoionization of arginine. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(8), 1860--1865.

Jacobs, M. I., Xu, B., Kostko, O., Wiegel, A. A., Houle, F. A., Ahmed, M., & Wilson, K. R. (2019). Using Nanoparticle X-ray Spectroscopy to Probe the Formation of Reactive Chemical Gradients in Diffusion-Limited Aerosols. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123(28), 6034--6044.

Kostko, O., Jacobs, M. I., Xu, B., Wilson, K. R., & Ahmed, M. (2019). Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 151(18), 184702.

Jacobs, M. I. (2019). Surface-Mediated Chemical Transformations of Aerosol Particles and Droplets. University of California, Berkeley.

Jacobs, M. I., Davis, R. D., Rapf, R. J., & Wilson, K. R. (2018). Studying chemistry in micro-compartments by separating droplet generation from ionization. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 30(2), 339--343.

Davis, R. D., Jacobs, M. I., Houle, F. A., & Wilson, K. R. (2017). Colliding-droplet microreactor: rapid on-demand inertial mixing and metal-catalyzed aqueous phase oxidation processes. Analytical Chemistry, 89(22), 12494--12501.

Jacobs, M. I., Davies, J. F., Lee, L., Davis, R. D., Houle, F., & Wilson, K. R. (2017). Exploring chemistry in microcompartments using guided droplet collisions in a branched quadrupole trap coupled to a single droplet, paper spray mass spectrometer. Analytical Chemistry, 89(22), 12511--12519.

Xu, B., Jacobs, M. I., Kostko, O., & Ahmed, M. (2017). Guanidinium group remains protonated in a strongly basic arginine solution. ChemPhysChem, 18(12), 1503--1506.

Jacobs, M. I., Kostko, O., Ahmed, M., & Wilson, K. R. (2017). Low energy electron attenuation lengths in core--shell nanoparticles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(20), 13372--13378.

Kostko, O., Xu, B., Jacobs, M. I., & Ahmed, M. (2017). Soft X-ray spectroscopy of nanoparticles by velocity map imaging. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147(1), 013931.

Jacobs, M. I., Xu, B., Kostko, O., Heine, N., Ahmed, M., & Wilson, K. R. (2016). Probing the heterogeneous ozonolysis of squalene nanoparticles by photoemission. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 120(43), 8645--8656.

Mael, L. E., Jacobs, M. I., & Elrod, M. J. (2015). Organosulfate and nitrate formation and reactivity from epoxides derived from 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 119(19), 4464--4472.

Jacobs, M. I., Burke, W., & Elrod, M. J. (2014). Kinetics of the reactions of isoprene-derived hydroxynitrates: gas phase epoxide formation and solution phase hydrolysis. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14(17), 8933--8946.

Jacobs, M. I., Darer, A. I., & Elrod, M. J. (2013). Rate constants and products of the OH reaction with isoprene-derived epoxides. Environmental Science \& Technology, 47(22), 12868--12876.