The Surface Science Division (SSD) is highlighting cutting-edge and foundational research involving surfaces and interfaces, including gas-solid and liquid-solid interactions, emphasizing studies by surface spectroscopies and microscopies. A wide range of topics will be covered, from surface chemistry in liquids to reactions on nanoparticles, alloys, oxides, chalcogenides, and low-dimensional materials. We will showcase advances in Operando/in-situ methods and on-surface synthesis. We will hold a special session on Wednesday Celebrating Gabor Somorjai’s contributions to Surface Science, and on Thursday we will have an SSD reception after presentations by “Rising Stars” in surface science.
SS-MoM: Precision On-Surface Synthesis
- Alexander Sinitskii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Porous Graphene Nanoribbons and Nanomeshes”
SS-MoA: Surface Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Properties
- Pavel Jelinek, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia, “Understanding of STS Maps of Strongly Correlated Molecules on Surfaces: Can We Image Molecular Orbitals?”
- Aitor Mugarza, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – ICN2, Spain, “Graphene Nanoarchitectonics: Exploring Dimensionality Effects from 0 to 1.X”
SS-TuM: Dynamics
- Timothy Minton, University of Colorado Boulder, “Hyperthermal Atomic-Oxygen Scattering Dynamics on Representative Satellite Surfaces”
- Ye Xu, Louisiana State University, “Theoretical Investigation of the Adsorption and Diffusion of Co and Ni on Ceria”
SS-TuA: Chemical Reactions
- Camilla Ferreira de Sá Codeço, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Atomic-Scale Insights Into Reactivity and Excitations at Oxide Surfaces”
- Sara E. Mason, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Interpreting Composition-Dependent Oxygen Vacancy Mechanisms in Layered Oxides Through Machine Learning Residuals and Electronic Structure Analysis”
SS-WeM: Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Matthew Montemore, Tulane University, “Ni as a Promoter for Ethylene Epoxidation: Computation, Surface Science, and Reactor Studies”
- Christian Papp, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, “Catalysis with Liquid Gallium Alloys”
- Swetlana Schauermann, Kiel University, Germany, “Molecular Systems for Reversible Hydrogen Storage: Atomistic-Level Insights”
SS-WeA: Somorjai
- Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Professor Somorjai’s Impact on the Evolution of Surface Science”
- Francisco Zaera, Dept. Chemistry, “Behavior of Cu-Pt Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts Under Realistic Conditions”
SS-ThM: Reduced Dimensional Systems
- Lindsay R. Merte, Malmö University, Sweden, “Structure and Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Iron-Based Oxides on Silver”
- Oliver Monti, University of Arizona, “Large Moiré Potential in a Weakly Interacting Organic/2D Material Heterostructure”
SS-ThA: Rising Stars
- Naihao Chiang, University of Houston, “Peter Mark Award Talk: Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Scanning Ion-Conductance Microscopy”
- Philippe Sautet, University of California at Los Angeles, “Restructuring, Fluxionality and Dynamics of Heterogeneous Catalysts in Reaction Conditions from First Principles”
SS-ThP: Surface Science Poster Session
SS-FrM: Photo- and Electrochemical Energy Conversion
- Slavomir Nemsak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Caught in the Act: Correlating Chemical Transformations and Structural Evolution Under Reaction Conditions”
- Marcel Schreier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Real-Time Control of Interfacial Dynamics Enables Electrocatalytic C-H and C-C Bond Transformation and Fuel Formation”