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Plenary Lecture

Alec M. Wodtke, Georg-August University of Göttingen and The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

“Pump-Probe Experiments with Neutral Matter: A New Approach to the Kinetics of Surface Reactions”

Knowledge of the rates of elementary gas phase reactions has contributed decisively to our understanding of important societal problems, for example stratospheric ozone chemistry. Growing our knowledge of rates of elementary chemical reactions at surfaces is crucially important to improving heterogeneous catalysis. In comparison to gas phase reactions, there are surprisingly few known activation energies of elementary surface reactions, nor knowledge of the energies and entropies of the reactions’ transition states. This situation is a result of limitations on our methods for measuring rate constants of elementary surface reactions. Furthermore, first principles theories to predict surface reaction rates remain largely un-validated. In this talk, I will present recent experimental advances yielding the rates of elementary reactions at surfaces, which rely on a stroboscopic pump-probe concept designed for neutral matter. This method is also capable of revealing surface-site-specific kinetics information. Not only is site specific reactivity an essential aspect of surface reaction mechanisms, it is essential to provide benchmarks for testing first principles methods for calculating reaction rates, another potentially powerful tool with which to investigate heterogeneous catalysis.

Biography

Alec M. Wodtke
-Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
-Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
-International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

Alec Wodtke is an experimental chemist working on chemical reaction dynamics. He was an Asst. Prof. at UCSB where he developed methods for studying gas-phase collision dynamics of highly vibrationally excited molecules. This produced results on topics ranging from the quantum nature of chemical isomerization, to the role of hot molecules in stratospheric ozone production. He received several awards for his work and advanced to tenured Assoc. Prof. and then Full Prof., eventually becoming Chemistry department Chairman. Over the course of his career, He has published about 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals including more than two dozen invited reviews and/or feature articles. In 2010, he was awarded a Humboldt Professorship and moved to Germany to become a Max Planck Director and University Professor in Göttingen. Here, he established the Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, which explores a wide variety of problems in fundamental surface chemistry emphasizing interactions between experiment and theory.

Five representative publications, as senior author:

  1. Velocity-resolved kinetics of site-specific carbon monoxide oxidation on platinum surfaces, Jannis Neugebohren, Dmitriy Borodin, Hinrich W. Hahn, Jan Altschäffel, Alexander Kandratsenka, Daniel J. Auerbach, Charles T. Campbell, Dirk Schwarzer, Dan J. Harding, Alec M. Wodtke & Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos, Nature, 558(7709), 280-3 (2018)
  2. Electron-hole pair excitation determines the mechanism of hydrogen atom adsorption, Oliver Bünermann, Yvonne Dorenkamp, Hongyan Jiang, Alexander Kandratsenka, Svenja Janke, Daniel J. Auerbach, AM Wodtke, Science 350(6266) 1346-9 (2015)
  3. Electronically non-adiabatic influences in surface chemistry and dynamics, Alec M. Wodtke, Chemical Society Reviews, 45, 3641-57 (2016).
  4. The Sommerfeld ground-wave limit for an adsorbed molecule at a surface, Li Chen, Jascha Lau, Dirk Schwarzer, Varun B. Verma, Alec M. Wodtke,Science, 363, 158–161 (2019).
  5. Imaging covalent bond formation by H-atom scattering from Graphene, Hongyan Jiang, Marvin Kammler, Feizhi Ding, Yvonne Dorenkamp, Frederick R. Manby, Alexander Kandratsenka, Alec. M. Wodtke, Thomas Miller III, Oliver Bünermann, Science 364(6438) 379-382 (2019)

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