AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Surface Science Tuesday Sessions

Session SS1-TuM
Reactivity of Metal Clusters

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 8:00 am, Room 2002
Moderator: A.J. Gellman, Carnegie Mellon University


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8:00am SS1-TuM1
Thermal Stability of Metallic Nano-Clusters and Film Patterning on Solid Surfaces Studied Via Weakly Bound Buffer Layer
M. Asscher, Hebrew University, Israel
8:20am SS1-TuM2
CO and NO Reactions over Rh Nanoparticles Supported on Ceria Thin Films@footnote 1@
S.D. Senanayake, D.R. Mullins, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
8:40am SS1-TuM3 Invited Paper
Size Dependent Composition and Catalytic Reactivity of Platinum Clusters from First Principles
W.F. Schneider, University of Notre Dame
9:20am SS1-TuM5
Formic Acid Decomposition on Pd Nanoparticles Deposited on TiO@sub 2@(110)
J. Zhou, S. Dag, V. Meunier, S.V. Kalinin, D.R. Mullins, S.H. Overbury, A.P. Baddorf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:40am SS1-TuM6
Pd Cluster Growth on the SnO2 (101) Surface
Kh. Katsiev, U. Diebold, M. Batzill, Tulane University
10:40am SS1-TuM9
New Atomic-Scale Insights Into Promoter and Support Effects on MoS@sub 2@ Nanoclusters from STM Studies of Hydrotreating Model Catalysts
J. Kibsgaard, J.V. Lauritsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, H. Topsoe, B.S. Clausen, Haldor Topsoe A/S, Denmark, F. Besenbacher, University of Aarhus, Denmark
11:00am SS1-TuM10
Deposition and Reactivity of Mo@sub x@S@sub y@ (x/y=4/6, 6/8, 7/10) Clusters on Au(111)
J.M. Lightstone, M.J. Patterson, J. Lofaro, Stony Brook University, P. Liu, M.G. White, Brookhaven National Laboratory
11:20am SS1-TuM11
The Structure of Catalytically Active Gold
M.S. Chen, D.W. Goodman, Texas A&M University
11:40am SS1-TuM12
Novel Gold Catalysts: UHV and Ambient Studies on Nanoporous Gold Surfaces
M. Baeumer, T. Nowitzki, B. Juergens, C. Schulz, V. Zielasek, University Bremen, Germany, J. Biener, M. Biener, A.V. Hamza, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory