AVS 65th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Surface Science Division Wednesday Sessions

Session SS+HC-WeM
Catalytic Alloys: Understanding Heterogeneity

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 8:00 am, Room 203C
Moderators: April Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jean-Sabin McEwen, Washington State University


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8:00am SS+HC-WeM1 Invited Paper
Toward Surface Science-informed Design of Bifunctional Deoxygenation Catalysts
J. Will Medlin, University of Colorado Boulder
8:40am SS+HC-WeM3
Computationally Assisted Correlative STEM and EXAFS Characterization for Multiscale Structure Determination of Tunable Rh/Au Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts
S. House, C.S. Bonifacio, University of Pittsburgh, J. Timoshenko, Stony Brook University, P. Kunal, H. Wan, Z. Duan, H. Li, University of Texas at Austin, Judith Yang, University of Pittsburgh, A.I. Frenkel, Stony Brook University, S. Humphrey, R. Crooks, G. Henkelman, University of Texas at Austin
9:00am SS+HC-WeM4
Designing Heterogeneous Alloy Catalysts from First Principles and Surface Science
Charles Sykes, Tufts University
9:20am SS+HC-WeM5
Extracting Diffusing Parameters for Cu and S from Surface Segregation Data Recorded with AES on a Ni-Cu(S) Ternary Alloy
Jacobus Terblans, University of the Free State, South Africa, X.-L. Yan, University of the Free State, China, J.Y. Wand, Shantou University, China, H.C. Swart, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa
9:40am SS+HC-WeM6
Atomic and Electronic Structure of CoO Nanoislands on Au(111)
Ana Sanchez-Grande, IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain, J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, Aarhus University, Denmark, E. Carrasco, B. Cirera, K. Lauwaet, IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain, J. Fester, Aarhus University, Denmark, R. Miranda, Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain, J.V. Lauritsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, D. Ecija, IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain
11:00am SS+HC-WeM10 Invited Paper
Using Water as a Co-catalyst in Heterogeneous Catalysis to Improve Activity and Selectivity
Lars Grabow, University of Houston
11:40am SS+HC-WeM12
Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation of Water Chemistry on Two-dimensional Silica and Aluminosilicate
Jin-Hao Jhang, G.S. Hutchings, Yale University, J.A. Boscoboinik, Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory, E.I. Altman, Yale University
12:00pm SS+HC-WeM13
Double Layer Formation of Water Molecules on Graphene
A. Akaishi, T. Yonemaru, Jun Nakamura, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC-Tokyo), Japan