AVS 64th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Fundamental Discoveries in Heterogeneous Catalysis Focus Topic Thursday Sessions

Session HC+SS-ThA
Combined Experimental and Theoretical Explorations of the Dynamics of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 2:20 pm, Room 24
Moderator: L. Gabriela Avila-Bront, College of the Holy Cross


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2:20pm HC+SS-ThA1 Invited Paper
Building the World’s Greatest Microscope: Revealing the Atomic Scale Dynamics of Surface Chemistry
A. Wodtke, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, O. Buenermann, H. Jiang, Y. Dorenkamp, Institute for Physical Chemistry University of Goettingen, Germany, A. Kandratsenka, S.M. Janke, Daniel Auerbach, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
3:00pm HC+SS-ThA3
Calibrating Electronic Structure Calculations – A Joint Experimental-Theoretical Approach
Arthur Utz, E.K. Dombrowski, E. High, Tufts University
3:20pm HC+SS-ThA4
CO2, CO and H2O on Copper Surfaces: A HPXPS Study Supported by DFT Calculations
A. Regoutz, G. Kerherve, J.M. Kahk, J. Lischner, David Payne, Imperial College London, UK
4:00pm HC+SS-ThA6 Invited Paper
Dissociative Adsorption of Methane on Transition Metal Surfaces and Supported Atoms from First Principles Calculations
Heriberto Fabio Busnengo, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
4:40pm HC+SS-ThA8
Methane Steam Reforming: Using External Electric Fields to Enhance the Catalytic Performance of Ni-based Catalysts
Fanglin Che, University of Toronto, Canada, J. Gray, S. Ha, J.-S. McEwen, Washington State University
5:00pm HC+SS-ThA9
Mullite Support Boosts Active Oxygen Atoms for Enhanced Platinum Sub-nanometer Clusters Catalysis
Xiao Liu, J.M. Cai, B. Shan, R. Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
5:20pm HC+SS-ThA10
Calorimetric Energies of Small Adsorbates on Ni(111) and NiO(111) Surfaces, with Comparison to Pt(111) to Explain Differences in Catalytic Activity between Ni vs Pt
Wei Zhao, S. Carey, Z. Mao, S. Morgan, C. Campbell, University of Washington
5:40pm HC+SS-ThA11
Defect Formation on MoS2 via Methanol to Methoxy Conversion
Prescott Evans, H.K. Jeong, S. Beniwal, P.A. Dowben, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, D. Le, T.S. Rahman, University of Central Florida