Surface Science in Fundamentals of Catalysis

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM

301-303 (Lawrence Convention Center)

Johannes Lercher, Technische Universität München, Germany and Matteo Maestri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

1:30 PM
Keynote

Integration of Selective Heterogeneous, Homogeneous, and Enzyme Catalysis on the Nanoscale
Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

2:10 PM

Surface-Level Studies of Selectivity Control in Reactions of Oxygenates
J. Will Medlin, University of Colorado, USA.

2:30 PM

The Prevalence of Bimolecular Routes for Activating Strong Bonds (O₂, NO, CO, N₂) on Metal Surfaces during Catalysis
David Hibbitts, University of California Berkeley, USA and Enrique Iglesia, University of California at Berkeley, ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

2:50 PM

Imaging Water Reactions with Reduced, Stoichiometric, and Oxidized RuO₂(110) Surfaces
Rentao Mu, David Cantu, Xiao Lin, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Zhitao Wang, Igor Lyubinetsky, Roger Rousseau and Zdenek Dohnalek, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.