Time：Jan. 21st,09:00 AM
Location: 3rd Floor Meeting Room, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis
Lecturer: Prof. Miquel B. Salmeron
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California, Berkeley, USA
Abstract：
Over the past century the science of surfaces has undergone an enormous progress. The atomic and electronic structure, reactivity, and dynamics of many material surfaces have been uncovered. Several Nobel prizes have marked the great accomplishments of our predecessors, from I. Langmuir in 1932 to G. Ertl in 2007. This progress has been fostered and propelled by the continuous development of powerful techniques that have provided atomic and molecular level details of surfaces, adsorption and desorption phenomena, vibration and electronic spectra, electron diffraction and real space imaging by the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. The nature of many techniques has constrained Surface Science to ultra-high vacuum environments. And yet practical surfaces are surrounded by gases and liquids at ambient conditions of pressure and temperature. Under these conditions the surfaces are covered with dense layers of adsorbed molecules. The last two decades have witnessed the development of many new techniques that can operate under ambient conditions, and that can provide spatial and spectroscopic resolution similar to that of vacuum techniques. This new observation window has revealed previously unknown phenomena arising from the adsorption of molecules that interact weakly with the surface that therefore are present in sufficient concentrations only in equilibrium with the gas phase. At relevant ambient temperatures, room temperature and above, many kinetic processes that are frozen at the low temperatures required in vacuum environments are unlocked. In this lecture I will review the physics and chemistry of surfaces with dense layers of adsorbates and new phenomena that derive from this, including hydrogen dissociation reactions on Pd and Ru, dense layers of CO, CO2 and H2 and their effect on the structure of metal surfaces. Prospects for similar studies of the solid-liquid interface, a new frontier in the field, and their impact in environmental science, electrochemistry and energy storage will also be discussed. Finally I will discuss the potential of ultrafast techniques to study dynamic processes with the hope of determining elusive reaction transitions states.
Introduction：
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 1975
M.A. in Physics, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1971
B.A. in Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain, 1967
Professional Experience
2012-present Senior Scientist and Principla Investigator, Materials Science Divison. LBNL
2008-2012 Director of the Materials Science Division. LBNL
2008 Visiting Professor at the “Institut des Nanosciences de Paris”. Jussieu, Paris. France.
2006-present Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Eng. Dept. University of California Berkeley.
2004-present Scientific Director of the Imaging and Manipulation Facility of the Molecular Foundry.
2001 Visiting Professor (3 months). Fritz-Haber Institute, Max-Planck Society, Berlin.
1991-94 Visiting Professor (1 month / year). University of Barcelona, Spain
1990 Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
1984-90 Divisional Fellow. Materials and Chemical Sciences Division. LBNL
1983 Visiting Scientist (4 months). Exxon Research Co. New Jersey
1981-84 Professor, Physics Dept. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
1973-84 Senior Scientist. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
1972-73 Assistant Professor of Physics. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Honors
2015 Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics. American Physical Society
2010 R&D 100 Award, R&D Magazine
2010 Outstanding Lecturer Award, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
2008 Medard W. Welch Award. American Vacuum Society
2008 Langmuir Lectureship Award. American Chemical Society
2007 Outstanding Performance Award, LBNL.
2004 Klaus Halbach Award for development of Innovative Instrumentation
2003 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
2001 Outstanding Performance Award, LBNL
1997 Iberdrola Foundation Professor. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
1996 Fellow of the American Physical Society
1996 Outstanding Research Award in Materials Chemistry. U.S. Department of Energy
1995 Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award in Materials Chemistry. U.S. Dept. of Energy
1995 Nicolas Cabrera Foundation Professor. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
1994 Outstanding Performance Award, LBNL
1991 Certificate of Merit in Technology Transfer, LBNL
1990 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Technology Transfer Merit
1989 Outstanding Achievements in Technology Transfer, LBNL
Original Publications
500 Journal articles and book chapters.
440 Invited talks, including 30 plenary and keynote lectures.
Patents Held
1. J. Hu, D.F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron and X.-D. Xiao, “Method for Imaging Liquid and Dielectric Materials with Scanning Polarization Force Microscopy.” U.S. Patent No. 5,880,360 (3/9/99)
2. I. Brown, R. MacGill, J. Galvin, D.F. Ogletree and M. Salmeron, “Miniature Pulsed Vacuum Arc Plasma Gun and Apparatus for Thin-Film Fabrication.” U.S. Patent No. 5,841,236 (11/24/98)
3. J. Hu, D.F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron and X.-D. Xiao, “Apparatus for Imaging Liquid and Dielectric Materials with Scanning Polarization Force Microscopy.” U.S. Patent No. 5,744,704 (4/28/98).
4. Jeong Park, D.F. Ogletree and M. Salmeron, “Electronic control of friction in semiconductor surfaces”. U.S. Patent Application No. 60/949,851 (7/14/07)
5. Solution-processed, ultrasensitive UV-Vis-NIR photodetectors from sintered cadmium telleride nanocrystals. ROI submitted. September 2015.
PhD Thesis supervised: 36 students from Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science Departments from various Universities in the US and in Europe
Professional Activities
2011 Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of AAAS Science
2011 Organizer of the 1 Symposium on Frontier in Catalysis: Symposium on Surfaces and Nanomaterials for
Catalysis through In-situ and Ex-situ Studies. MRS San Francisco, April 25-29, 2011
2009-present Member Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2009 Organizer of the 31st Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis of the AVS.
2007 Organizer of International Workshop of “Water at interfaces”. Shanghai.
2007 Organizer of High Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy Workshop. Berkeley
2004-present Member Steering Committee, National Center of Electron Microscopy
2004-2006 Member Scientific Advisory Board, Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Synchrotron)
2003-present Member Editorial Board of Surface Science
2003-present President of the Scientific Advisory Board, “Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia”. Barcelona, Spain.
2001-03 Scientific Advisor, Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain.
2001 Chairman, International Review Committee for FOM Grants, Holland.
2001 International Conference on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Program Committee
2000 Member of the Research Award Prizes Committee. Generalitat de Catalunya. Barcelona. Spain
1999 Member, International Review Committee, Austrian Science Fund
1996 MRSEC Panel, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
1994-present Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Tribology Letters
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