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 benefit society. This year’s sessions address reaction dynamics and mechanisms at surfaces, with special emphasis on unique chemistries occurring on oxide, chalcogenide, and semiconductor surfaces. Technical developments in recent years have greatly expanded our capabilities to investigate 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. One of the sessions will host the Morton M. Traum award for exciting research presented by students in the Surface Science Division, and another session hosts a Memorial Symposium for Patricia Thiel in recognition of her invaluable contributions to research in surface science.
SS1+CA+TF: Dynamics and Mechanisms at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Theofanis Kitsopoulos, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Germany, “Probing the Kinetics and Dynamics on Metal Surfaces using Ion Imaging Methods”
- Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh, “How Plasmons Decay into Hot Electrons in Metals, as seen by Plasmonic Photoemission”
SS2+AS+QS: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Quantum Chemistry
- Andreas Heyden, University of South Carolina, “Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Heterogeneous Catalysis”
SS3+AS+BI+CA+HC+LD+PS: Environmental and Atmospheric Interfaces
- Markus Ammann, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland, “Chemistry and Hydrogen Bonding Environment at the Surface of Minerals, Aqueous Solutions and Ice as Seen by X-ray Photoelectron and Electron Yield NEXAFS Spectroscopies”
SS4+CA+HC+NS: Photochemistry and Electrochemistry Surfaces for Energy Applications
- Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, “Halide Ion Mobility in Metal Halide Perovskites and its Impact on Photovoltaic Performance”
SS5+AP+AS+HC+LD+SE+TF: Reactivity of Oxide and Chalcogenide Surfaces
- Ye Xu, Lousiana State University, “Interaction of Small Heteroatomic Organic Compounds with Ceria”
SS6+2D+AP+PS+TF: Surface Chemistry of Film Growth and Etching
- Stacey Bent, Stanford University, “Mechanisms of Film Growth by Atomic Layer Deposition”
SS7+AP+AS+HC+LD+SE+TF: Oxides and Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
- Sanjaya Senanayake, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Deciphering Pathways for Selective Oxidation of C-H Bonds Over Metal Oxide Surfaces”
SS8+2D+AP+BI+NS+TF: Molecular Organization at Surfaces
- Meike Stohr, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands, “Molecular Nanostructures on Metals vs. Graphene”
SS9+SE: Astrochemistry and Surfaces for Space and Extreme Environments
- John Hennessy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, “Atomic Layer Processing for Space-based Optical Coatings”
- Ewine van Dischoeck, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Netherlands, “Molecular Processes in Ultrahigh Vacuum Between the Stars”
SS10: Memorial Session in Honor of Patricia Thiel (ALL INVITED SESSION)
- Jürgen Behm, Ulm University, Germany, “Surface Science Model Studies of Electrode-Electrolyte Interactions”
- Alex Belianinov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Helium Ion Microscopy for Surface Modification and Characterization”
- Jim Evans, Ames Laboratory, “Formation and Evolution of Metal Nanoclusters at Surfaces: Thiel Group Studies”
- Vincent Fournee, University of Lorraine, France, “Metal and Molecular Thin Films Templated on Quasicrystalline Surfaces”
- Cynthia Jenks, Argonne National Laboratory, “The Many Facets of Surface Chemistry: In Honor of Pat Thiel”
- Dapeng Jing, Ames Laboratory, “Encapsulation of Copper at the Surface of Bulk MoS2“
- Ann Lii-Rosales, University of Colorado Boulder, “Atomic Scale Processing Strategies: From Metal Encapsulation to Metal Etching”
- 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 University Bochum, Germany, “The Influence of Alloying on Surface Kinetics”
- Jeong Young Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, “Atomic Scale Investigation of Friction Properties of Quasicrystals and Beyond”
- Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “From Surfaces and Interfaces: Advancing Operando Studies”
- Michael Tringides, Iowa State University, “High Quality 2-D Materials Paradoxically Characterized from Broad Diffraction Features”
SS11: Surface Science Division Poster Session