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. This Division’s overarching goal is to provide the atomistic insights on solid surfaces and interfaces needed to advance our understanding of materials systems and to benefit society. This year’s sessions address reaction dynamics and mechanisms at surfaces, with special emphasis on unique chemistries occurring on oxide surfaces. Technical developments in recent years have greatly expanded our capabilities for investigating reactions with operando methods, thus promoting the study of catalytic surfaces as well as environmental and atmospheric surfaces under realistic pressure conditions. We also focus on photochemistry and electrochemistry for energy applications, molecular organization at surfaces, and the chemistry of thin film growth and etching. This year we introduce a dedicated session on astrochemistry and surfaces for space and extreme environments.
SS+2D+AP+BI+NS+TF-ThA: Molecular Organization at Surfaces
- Meike Stöhr, University of Groningen, Netherlands, “Molecular Nanostructures on Metals vs. Graphene: Towards Preserving Functional Properties”
SS+2D+AP+PS+TF-TuM: Surface Chemistry of Film Growth and Etching
- Stacey Bent, Stanford University, “Thin Film Growth One Step at a Time: Unraveling Mechanisms in Atomic Layer Deposition”
SS+AP+AS+HC+LD+SE+TF-MoA: Oxides Surfaces and Interfaces
- Sanjaya Senanayake, Brookhaven National Laboratory, ” Methanol Synthesis Pathways for the Selective Conversion of C-H bonds “
- Ye Xu, Louisiana State University, “Interaction of Small Heteroatomic Organic Compounds with Ceria”
SS+CA+HC+NS+TF-TuA: Photochemistry, Electrochemistry and Dynamics at Surfaces
- Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, “Halide Ion Mobility in Metal Halide Perovskites and its Impact on Photovoltaic Performance”
SS+CA+TF-MoM: Dynamics and Mechanisms at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Theofanis Kitsopoulos, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, “Kinetics and Dynamics of CΟ Oxidation on Atomically Stepped Metal Surfaces”
- Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh, “How Plasmons Decay into Hot Electrons in Metals, as seen by Plasmonic Photoemission”
SS+SE-FrM: Environmental and Astrochemistry, and Surfaces for Space Applications
- Markus Ammann, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland, “Chemistry and Hydrogen Bonding Environment at Environmental Surfaces as Seen by X-ray Photoelectron and Electron Yield NEXAFS Spectroscopies”
- John Hennessy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “Atomic Layer Processing for Space-based Optical Coatings”
- Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden University, The Netherlands, “Molecular Processes in Ultra-High Vacuum between the Stars”
SS-On Demand: Surface Science On Demand Session
SS+HC-TuP: Surface Science Division Poster Session