Lotefa Binta Tuli

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    tuli1@llnl.gov
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Dr. Lotefa Binta Tuli is a postdoctoral researcher in the Reaction Dynamics group. Her research focuses on modeling the formation and destruction of water droplets and ice particles stemming from the utilization of conventional and sustainable aviation fuels. Dr. Tuli is developing detailed chemical kinetic models which simulate particle size and number distributions of these water droplets and ice particles. Her work will aid stakeholders in understanding the early nucleation of ice particles which can persist as contrails which contribute to climate forcing effects from the aviation sector.

 

Research Interests

  • Quantum mechanics calculations including the exploration of potential energy surfaces, reaction rate coefficients, formation of resonance-stabilized hydrocarbon radicals, aromatic hydrocarbons, and the growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) over a wide range of thermodynamic states.
  • Applications-oriented theoretical chemistry, predictions of physico-chemical (structural, thermodynamics) properties. 
  • Chemistry and physics sub-models in simulations.

 

PhD Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 2023 M.S. Chemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 2021 M.S. Organic Chemistry, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2012 B.Sc. Chemistry, Dhaka Uni

  1. Shane J. Goettl, Lotefa B. Tuli, Andrew M. Turner, Yahaira Reyes, A. Hasan Howlader, Stanislaw F. Wnuk, Patrick Hemberger*, Alexander M. Mebel* and Ralf I. Kaiser* “Gas Phase Synthesis of Coronene through stepwise Directed Ring Annulation” J. Am. Che. Soc. 28, 15443-15455, 145, (2023). doi/10.1002/kin.21406
  2. Tuli, Lotefa Binta ; Goettl, Shane; Turner, Andrew; Howlader, Md. A.; Hemberger, Patrick; Wnuk,

Stanislaw; Guo, Tianjian; Mebel, Alexander; Kaiser, Ralf “Gas Phase Synthesis of Nano Bowl C40 (C40H10)”, Nature Communications 14, 1527 (2023).

  1. Lotefa Binta Tuli, Alexander M. Mebel, Michael Frenklach. “Bay capping via acetylene addition to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Mechanism and kinetics” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 39(1), 969-977 (2023).
  2. Jia Wang1,2, Joshua H. Marks1,2, Lotefa B. Tuli3, Alexander M. Mebel3, Valeriy N. Azyazov4 and Ralf I. Kaiser1,2* “The Formation of Thioformic Acid (HCOSH) - the Simplest Thioacid - in Interstellar Ice Analogs” The Journal of Physical Chemistry 126, 9699-9708 (2022).
  3. Long Zhao,a Srinivas Doddipatla,a Ralf I. Kaiser, a Wenchao Lu, b Oleg Kostko, b Musahid Ahmed, b Lotefa Binta Tuli,c Alexander N. Morozov,c A. Hasan Howlader, c Stanislaw F. Wnuk,c Alexander M. Mebel, c Valeriy N. Azyazov,de Rana K. Mohamedf and Felix R. Fischer;fgh “Gas-Phase Synthesis of Corannulene – A Molecular Building Block of Fullerenes” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23, 5683-6320 (2021).
  4. Lotefa Binta Tuli, Alexander M. Mebel. “Formation of phenanthrene via H‐assisted isomerization of 2‐ethynylbiphenyl produced in the reaction of phenyl with phenylacetylene” International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 52, 875-883 (2020).

Florida International University UGS outstanding manuscript/paper award                May 2023

Florida International University SGA scholarship                                                         Summer 2022                                    

Florida International University UGS-GSRSP award                                                     Summer 2021

National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship                                                     January 2014