Rich Cox
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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PNNL Publications
2025
- Bubas A.R., A.D. French, K.M. Melby, M.J. Rodriguez, and R.M. Cox. 2025. "The Balance of Orbital Overlap and Orbital Energy in the Activation of Methane by Actinide Cations: Insights from Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry." Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 12, no. 4:1503-1516. PNNL-SA-202772. doi:10.1039/D4QI02748E
2024
- Cox R.M., A.R. Bubas, K.M. Melby, A.D. French, M.J. Rodriguez, M.P. Prange, and N. Govind. 2024. "The Curious Case of Pu+: Insight on 5f Orbital Activity from Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) Reactions." Inorganic Chemistry 63, no. 43:20617-20624. PNNL-SA-199527. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03263
- Cox R.M., K.M. Melby, A.D. French, and M.J. Rodriguez. 2024. "f-Block reactions of metal cations with carbon dioxide studied by inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26, no. 1:209-218. PNNL-SA-187315. doi:10.1039/D3CP04180H
- Felmy H.M., R.M. Cox, A.F. Espley, E.L. Campbell, B.R. Kersten, H.E. Lackey, and S.D. Branch, et al. 2024. "Quantification of hydrogen isotopes utilizing Raman spectroscopy paired with chemometric analysis for application across multiple systems." Analytical Chemistry 96, no. 18:7220 - 7230. PNNL-SA-194339. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00802
- French A.D., K.M. Melby, K.P. Hobbs, R.M. Cox, G.C. Eiden, E.W. Hoppe, and I.J. Arnquist, et al. 2024. "The importance of ion kinetic energy for interference removal in ICP-MS/MS." Talanta 272. PNNL-SA-190989. doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2024.125799
- French A.D., K.P. Hobbs, R.M. Cox, and I.J. Arnquist. 2024. "The impact of gas purity on observed reactivity with NO using inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry." Analyst 149, no. 24:5812-5820. PNNL-SA-200414. doi:10.1039/D4AN01227E
- Hobbs K.P., A.D. French, K.M. Melby, E.J. Bylaska, K. Harouaka, R.M. Cox, and I.J. Arnquist, et al. 2024. "Assessing gas-phase ion reactivity of 50 elements with NO and the direct application for 239Pu in complex matrices using ICP-MS/MS." Analytical Chemistry 96, no. 15:5807-5814. PNNL-SA-191260. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.3c04774
2023
- French A.D., K.M. Melby, R.M. Cox, E.J. Bylaska, G.C. Eiden, E.W. Hoppe, and I.J. Arnquist, et al. 2023. "Utilizing Metal Cation Reactions with Carbonyl Sulfide to Remove Isobaric Interferences in Tandem Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Analyses." Spectrochimica Acta. Part B, Atomic Spectroscopy 207. PNNL-SA-179586. doi:10.1016/j.sab.2023.106754
2022
- Cox R.M., K. Harouaka, M. Citir, and P.B. Armentrout. 2022. "Activation of CO2 by Actinide Cations (Th+, U+, Pu+, and Am+) as Studied by Guided Ion Beam and Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry." Inorganic Chemistry 61, no. 21:8168-8181. PNNL-SA-169403. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00447
- Harouaka K., K.M. Melby, E.J. Bylaska, R.M. Cox, G.C. Eiden, A.D. French, and E.W. Hoppe, et al. 2022. "Gas-phase ion-molecule interactions in a collision reaction cell with ICP-MS/MS: Investigations with CO2 as the reaction gas." Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 46, no. 3:387-399. PNNL-SA-168537. doi:10.1111/ggr.12429
2021
- Felmy H.M., A.J. Clifford, A. Schafer Medina, R.M. Cox, J.M. Wilson, A.M. Lines, and S.A. Bryan. 2021. "On-Line Monitoring of Gas-Phase Molecular Iodine using Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Paired with Chemometric Analysis." Environmental Science & Technology 55, no. 6:3898-3908. PNNL-SA-152725. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c06137
- Harouaka K., C.J. Allen, E.J. Bylaska, R.M. Cox, G.C. Eiden, M. di Vacri, and E.W. Hoppe, et al. 2021. "Gas-phase ion-molecule interactions in a collision reaction cell with triple quadrupole-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry:: Investigations with N2O as the reaction gas." Spectrochimica Acta. Part B, Atomic Spectroscopy 186. PNNL-SA-158777. doi:10.1016/j.sab.2021.106309
2020
- Bair J.L., D.G. Abrecht, N.R. Overman, A.D. Guzman, D.A. Collins, R.M. Cox, and S.L. Riechers. 2020. Improving Ductility of Hydride Embrittled Zirconium: Final Report. PNNL-30487. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Improving Ductility of Hydride Embrittled Zirconium: Final Report
- Hughey K.D., A.M. Bradley, H.M. Felmy, A.J. Clifford, R.M. Cox, A.M. Lines, and S.A. Bryan, et al. 2020. "Quantitative far-infrared band strengths of iodine monochloride (ICl), a molten salt off-gas product." In Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XXI; SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing. Proceedings of the SPIE, edited by Guicheteau, J.A. and C.R. Howle, 11416, Paper No. 114160Q. Bellingham, Washington:SPIE. PNNL-SA-152471. doi:10.1117/12.2557555
- Song M., K.G. Field, R.M. Cox, and G.S. Was. 2020. "Microstructural characterization of cold-worked 316 stainless steel flux thimble tubes irradiated up to 100 dpa in a commercial Pressurized Water Reactor." Journal of Nuclear Materials 541. PNNL-SA-153474. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152400