AVS 61st International Symposium & Exhibition
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Wednesday Sessions

Session NS-WeM
Nanoscale Catalysis and Surface Chemistry  

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 8:00 am, Room 304
Moderator: Jeremy Robinson, Naval Research Laboratory


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8:00am NS-WeM1 Invited Paper
Single Atom Alloys as a Strategy for Selective Heterogeneous Hydrogenations
Charles Sykes, Tufts University
8:40am NS-WeM3
In Situ FTIR Spectroscopic Observation of the Formation of Gold Ketenylidene during Carboxylic Acid Oxidation on a Au/TiO2 Nanoparticle Catalyst
Monica McEntee, W. Tang, M. Neurock, J.T. Yates, Jr., University of Virginia
9:00am NS-WeM4
Fabrication and Photocatalytic Activity of Metal-loaded TiO2 Nanometer Scale Particles
Paolo Reyes, Y. Liu, J.C. Hemminger, University of California Irvine
9:20am NS-WeM5
Size-dependent Trends in CO and O2 Adsorption on Pd Nanoparticle Catalysts
Hemma Mistry, L.K. Ono, University of Central Florida, B. Roldan Cuenya, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
9:40am NS-WeM6
Mixed Structures of CO and H on Ru(0001) as Precursor States for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
Barbara Lechner, X. Feng, S. Carenco, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, P.J. Feibelman, Sandia National Laboratories, M.B. Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:00am NS-WeM10
In Situ Investigation of Oxidation State and Reactivity of a Cu Model Catalyst by Simultaneous Mass Spectrometry and Indirect Nanoplasmonic Sensing
Hans Fredriksson, H.J.W. Niemantsverdriet, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
11:20am NS-WeM11
Controlling Surface Reactivities of TiO2 (110) by Nanoscale Strain Field
Zhisheng Li, D.V. Potapenko, R.M. Osgood, Columbia University
11:40am NS-WeM12 Invited Paper
NSTD Recognition Award Lecture: Probing Local Optoelectronic Properties of Porphyrin-Gold Molecular Interfaces with STM/STS
X. Chen, E.H. Morales, T.-H. Park, University of Pennsylvania, M.J. Therien, Duke University, Dawn Bonnell, University of Pennsylvania