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, which play out 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 heterogeneous catalysis, and the focus topics on chemical analysis, materials degradation, and 2D materials. These close relations are seen in the program and encourage 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 and 2D material surfaces. We showcase advances in photochemistry and 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.
SS1+AS+TF: Mechanisms at Surfaces and Interfaces
SS2+AS+HC+TF: Overcoming Barriers in Dynamic Processes
- Paola Quaino, IQAL-UNL – Santa Fe, Argentina
SS3+2D+AS: Surface Science of 2d Materials
- Kwabena Bediako, UC Berkeley
SS4+AS+CA: Environmental and Atmospheric Surfaces
- Vicki Grassian, UC San Diego, “Chemistry of Environmental Interfaces”
SS5+HC: Photochemistry
- Victor Batista, Yale University
SS6+HC: Electrochemistry
SS7: Liquid-Solid Interfaces
SS8+2D+AS+HC: Oxide and Chalcogenide Surfaces and Interfaces
- Mikolaj Lewandowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, “Ultrathin Iron Oxide, Nitride, and Sulfide Films: Bringing the Well-Known Compounds to a Unit-Cell Thickness”
SS9+2D+AS+HC: Oxide and Chalcogenide Reactivity
- Annabella Selloni, Princeton University
SS10+AS+TF: Thin Film Surface Chemistry
- Yingge Du, Pacific Northwest National Lab
SS11+AS: Molecular Organization at Surfaces
- Steven Tait, Indiana University
SS12+HC: Alloys and Complex Surfaces
- Charles Sykes, Tufts University, “Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood
In Silico”
SS13: A Special Session Honoring Wilson Ho
- Chi Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Zhenchao Dong, University of Science and Technology of China, “Sub-nanometer Resolved Single-Molecule Optical Spectromicroscopy”
- Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Probing Chemistry at the Angstrom-Scale via Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”
- Ying Jiang, Peking University, China, “Unravelling the Mysteries of Water and Ice: A Journey Starting from Single Water Molecule”
- Yousoo Kim, RIKEN, Japan
- Christopher P. Lutz, IBM Research, “Magnetic Imaging of Individual Organic Radicals Using Inelastic Tunneling and Spin Resonance”
- 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”
SS14: Surface Science Poster Session