Department: Chemical Engineering
Email: hoflund@che.ufl.edu
Title Of Talk: A Synergistic Theoretcial/Experimental Approach to Surface Chemistry Studies
Abstract: Studies in surface chemistry provide important opportunities for collaboration between experimentalists and theoreticians. This point is illustrated by several examples. (1) Many surfaces in technologically important application areas such as heterogeneous catalysis and semiconductors form layered structures in which the composition varies as a function of depth. By collecting appropriate data and formulating a mathematical model, it will be possible to predict the compositional depth profile. (2) Nanotechnology has become a highly visible research area. Research has shown that nanoparticles exhibit different catalytic properties than larger (poly) particles. Although the reason for this difference is not understood, a combined theoretical/experimental approach could resolve this important issue.
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