The Surface Science Division provides a forum for cutting-edge and foundational research that involves solid surfaces and interfaces including gas-solid and liquid-solid interactions. We aim to understand the wide range of processes, which play out on surfaces and at interfaces. This knowledge is critical to improve catalysts, find ways to limit corrosion, and even peek into the chemical processes at planetary surfaces. Surface science has close ties with other divisions such as heterogeneous catalysis, and the focus topics on chemical analysis, materials degradation, and 2D materials. This close relation is seen in the program and encourages participants to explore science outside of their immediate sphere of interest. This year’s sessions extend from surface chemistries with water and in liquids, to reactions on alloy surfaces, nanoparticles, and oxide and 2D material surfaces. We showcase advances in molecular organization and promote experiments under “real life conditions”, which are now feasible owing to advances in measurement techniques. We will host the Morton M. Traum award to honor research presented by students in the Surface Science Division.
SS-TuM: Liquid/Solid Interfaces and Electrochemistry
- Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Austria, “Bare and Modified Cu Single-Crystal Electrocatalysts: Interfacial Structure and Reactivity”
SS+2D+AS-TuA: Structure, Adsorption, and Reaction at 2D Material Surfaces
- Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida, “Modifying 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) by Incorporating Excess Transition Metals”
- Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Metal Oxide and Metal Dichalcogenide 2D Nanocrystals: Structure, Adsorption and Catalytic Properties”
SS+AS-MoA: Molecular Organization at Surfaces
- Ursula Mazur, Washington State University, “Cooperativity at the Solution/Solid Interface: Formation and Reactivity of Self-Assembled Monolayers”
SS+AS+SE-ThA: ALD and CVD Surface Chemistry
- Jeffrey Elam, Argonne National Laboratory, “ALD Surface Chemistry on Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes”
SS+AS+TF-MoM: Dynamics and Mechanisms at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Cristina Díaz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, “Stereodynamics Effects in Grazing-Incidence Fast-Molecule Diffraction”
- Susan Sinnott, Pennsylvania State University, “Medard W. Welch Award Talk: Atomistic Simulations to Advance Surface Science”
SS1+AS+HC-FrM: Oxide Surface Structure and Reactivity
- Dario Stacchiola, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Stabilization of Active Cu Sites on Oxide Surfaces”
SS1+HC-WeM: Alloy Surface Reactivity
- Andrew Gellman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, “High Throughput Methods for Comprehensive Study of Alloy Segregation and Structure Sensitivity”
SS2+CA+AS-FrM: Environmental, Atmospheric and Astronomical Surfaces
- Thomas M. Orlando, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Unraveling Water Formation on Planetary and Astrophysical Bodies: The Role of Surface Science”
- Mark Schlossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, “X-Ray Studies of Extractant and Lanthanide Ion Ordering at Liquid Interfaces Relevant to Solvent Extraction”
- Ahmet Uysal, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, “Combining Synchrotron X-ray and SFG Spectroscopy Techniques to Illuminate Aqueous Interfaces”
SS2+AS+HC-WeM: Nanoparticle Surfaces
- Michelle Personick, Wesleyan University, “Precision Engineering of Metal Nanoparticle Surfaces for Fundamental Studies of Catalytic Reactivity”
SS+AS-WeA: Memorial Session in Honor of Patricia Thiel I
- Jim Evans, Iowa State University, “Assembly and Stability of Metal Nanoclusters at Surfaces: Modeling Inspired by Thiel-Group STM Studies”
- Da-Jiang Liu, Iowa State University, “Stability and Dynamics of Sulfur-Metal Complexes on Coinage Metal Surfaces”
- Thomas Michely, University of Cologne, Germany, “Cluster Superlattice Membranes”
- Karina Morgenstern, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, “The Influence of Alloying on Surface Kinetics”
- Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “The Atomic of Structure of Surfaces: From Vacuum to Gas and Liquid Environments”
- Michael Tringides, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory US-DOE, “High Quality 2-D Materials Characterized Paradoxically from Broad Diffraction Features.”
SS+AS-ThM: Memorial Session in Honor of Patricia Thiel II
- R. Jürgen Behm, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Ulm University, Germany, “Unveiling the Nature of the Solid-Electrolyte Interface and of the Interphase Formation Process in Battery Systems”
- Alex Belianinov, Sandia National Laboratory, “Helium Ion Microscopy for Surface Modification and Characterization”
- Vincent Fournée, Institut Jean Lamour – CNRS- Université de Lorraine, France, “Quasicrystals in Two Dimensions: From Metals To Molecules And Oxides”
- Cynthia Jenks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Navigating Complex Interfaces: In Memory of Patricia A. Thiel”
- Dapeng Jing, Ames Laboratory USDOE, “Unusual Flat and Extended Morphology of Intercalated Cu Under MoS2”
- Jeong Young Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) & Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Republic of Korea, “Atomic Scale Investigation of Friction Properties of Quasicrystals and Beyond”
SS-TuP: Surface Science Poster Session