The Surface Science Division provides a forum for cutting-edge and foundational research that involves solid surfaces and interfaces including gas-solid and liquid-solid interactions. We aim to understand the wide range of processes, taking place on surfaces and at interfaces. This knowledge is critical to improve catalysts, find ways to limit corrosion, and even peek into the chemical processes at planetary surfaces. Surface science has close ties with other divisions such as nanoscale Science and Technology and Applied Surface Science, and the focus topics on heterogeneous catalysis, chemical analysis, materials degradation, and 2D materials. This close relation is seen in the program and encourages participants to explore science outside of their immediate sphere of interest. This year’s sessions extend from surface chemistries with water and in liquids, to reactions on alloy surfaces, nanoparticles, and oxide, chalcogenide and 2D materials surfaces. We showcase advances in molecular organization and promote experiments under “real-life conditions”, which are now feasible owing to advances in measurement techniques. We will host the Morton M. Traum Award to honor research presented by students in the Surface Science Division. This year, we will honor the career of Wilson Ho, by having a special symposium “25 Years of Single-Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy and Microscopy.”
SS1+HC-MoM: Electrochemistry
- Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “Controlling CO2 Reduction and Electrocatalysis Reactivity Using Alloy and Polymer-modified Electrodes”
SS2-MoM: Liquid-Solid Interfaces
SS+AS+TF-MoA: Mechanisms at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Mitsunori Kurahashi, National Institutes for Materials Science, Japan, “Spin- and Alignment-Controlled O2 Chemisorption and Catalytic CO Oxidation on Stepped Pt and Pt/Co Alloy Surfaces”
SS+2D+AS+HC-TuM: Oxide and Chalcogenide Surfaces and Interfaces
- Mikołaj Lewandowski, NanoBioMedical Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, “Ultrathin Metal Oxide, Nitride and Sulfide Films: Bringing the Well-Known Compounds to a Unit-Cell Thickness”
SS+HC-TuA: Photochemistry
- Victor Batista, Yale University, “Pt Nanoclusters on GaN Nanowires for Solar-Assisted Seawater Hydrogen Evolution”
- Annabella Selloni, Princeton University, “Structure and Chemistry of Aqueous Oxide Interfaces from Molecular Simulations”
SS+2D+AS+HC-WeM: Surface Science of 2D Materials
- D. Kwabena Bediako, University of California at Berkeley, “Tunable Interfacial Electrochemistry at Moiré Material Interfaces”
SS-WeA: A Special Session Honoring Wilson Ho: 25 Years of Single-Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy and Microscopy
- Chi Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, “Revealing the Local Band Structures of Sharp WS2/MoS2 Heterojunction and Graded WxMo1-xS2 Alloy by Near-Field Optical Imaging”
- Zhen-Chao Dong, University of Science and Technology of China, “Sub-Nanometer Resolved Single-Molecule Optical Imaging”
- Nan Jiang, University of Illinois Chicago, “Probing Chemistry at the Angstrom-Scale via Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”
- Ying Jiang, International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, China, “Unravelling the Mysteries of Water and Ice: A Journey Starting from Single Water Molecule”
Yousoo Kim, RIKEN, Japan, “Development of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Inspired by STM-IETS” - Christopher Lutz, IBM Almaden Research Center, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Individual Organic Radicals with sub-Molecular Resolution Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope”
- Steven Sibener, University of Chicago, “On-Surface Chemical Dynamics Probed with Concurrent In Situ STM, Infrared Spectroscopy, and Supersonic Molecular Beams”
- Joseph Stroscio, NIST, “Unraveling Orbital Magnetism Contributions to Landau Levels in Moiré Quantum Matter”
SS2+AS+TF-ThM: Thin Film Surface Chemistry
- Yingge Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Understanding the Surface Chemistry of Oxide Thin Films by Isotope Labeling”
SS1+AS-ThM: Molecular Organization at Surfaces
- Steven Tait, Indiana University, “Supramolecular Self-assembly and Metal-Ligand Redox Assembly at Surfaces”
SS+HC-ThA: Alloys and Complex Surfaces
- E Charles Sykes, Tufts University, “Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico”
SS-ThP: Surface Science Poster Session