电子化学和表面催化领域研究 —— 国际研究和教育合作团队
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THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ELECTRON CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS AT INTERFACES
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电子化学和表面催化领域研究 -- 国际研究和教育合作团队
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
Alec Wodtke graduated magna cum laude with a major in chemistry from the University of Utah
in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley in 1986
with Yuan T. Lee. His work there was awarded both a National Science Foundation
pre-doctoral Fellowship and an American Chemical Society Graduate Fellowship.
From 1986-88, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute in
Goettingen, Germany with Prof. Peter Andresen before joining the faculty at
UCSB in 1988. He received tenure in 1993 and became full Professor in 1996. He
has received a Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award and an
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. At UCSB, Professor Wodtke established a
vigorous research program focused on the study of the chemical properties of
highly vibrationally excited molecules. This work has concerned itself with the
fundamental nature of collisions of molecules in large amplitude vibrational
states, the role of highly vibrationally excited molecules in stratospheric
ozone formation, the quantum picture of isomerization as well as the nature of
large amplitude vibrational motions interacting with metal surfaces. Professor
Wodtke has also made significant contributions to experimental methodology for
studying photochemical dynamics, in particular developing one of the earliest
high resolution approaches to the measurement of correlated product state distributions
between photo-fragment pairs: "quantum-state-specific neutral
time-of-flight". His group has published over 100 papers in the field of
Physical Chemistry. Professor Wodtke served as spokesperson for the Chemical
Dynamics Beam line at the Advanced Light Source from 1995-1999. He began
serving as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSB in
2003.
Co-Principal Investigators
Susannah Scott
Susannah Scott was awarded a B.Sc. in Chemistry with
First Class Honours from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Iowa State University in 1991, for her work on oxygen activation by
chromium with James H. Espenson and Andreja Bakac. In 1992, she joined the
Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse in Lyon,
France, as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with Jean-Marie
Basset. In 1994, she accepted an NSERC Women's Faculty Award at the University of Ottawa
(Canada), where she won the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry
and received tenure in 1998. She was named a Cottrell Scholar of Research
Corporation in 1999 and won Union Carbide Innovation Recognition awards in 1999
and 2000. In 2001, she held a Miller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at UC-Berkeley
and was named a Canada Research Chair in Surface Organometallic Chemistry. She
joined the faculty at UCSB as a full Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Chemistry in 2003. Her work focuses on the interactions of molecules with oxide
surfaces, including the stabilization of highly electronically- and coordinatively-unsaturated
organometallic molecules as catalyst precursors. In this area, she has
contributed the first surface-mediated synthesis of well-defined alkylidene complexes,
the first non-hydrolytic surface condensation reaction and the mechanisms of
olefin epoxidation, metathesis and polymerization in heterogeneous catalysis.
Horia Metiu
Horia Metiu obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1974. After
postdoctoral research at MIT with John Ross and the University of Chicago with Karl Freed, he joined the faculty of UC Santa Barbara in 1976.
His awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar Award, the Exxon Solid State Chemistry ACS award, the UCSB Faculty
Research Lectureship, and Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He is
a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Japan Association for the
Promotion of Science. Since 1999 he has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics. His current
research interests include time-dependent statistical mechanics with
applications to reaction rates, hydrogen diffusion on surfaces, and desorption
rate; catalysis by metal nanoparticles on oxide supports; and simulations of
fuel-cell membranes.
Steven K.
Buratto:
Steve Buratto graduated magna cum laude with majors in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Puget Sound in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the California
Institute of Technology in 1992 with Daniel P. Weitekamp. As a graduate student
he was awarded an AT&T Bell Laboratories Graduate Fellowship From 1992-94,
he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Labs with Dr. Mark J. Cardillo. He
joined the faculty at UCSB in 1994. He received tenure in 2001 and became full
Professor in 2004. He has received an NSF Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellowship and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. Prof. Buratto's
research at UCSB has focused on characterizing the properties of materials on
the nanoscale. He has pioneered new microscopy techniques for probing
luminescence, photoconductivity and electroluminescence on a 10 - 100 nm scale.
His group has also been active in the field of single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
applied to systems with more than one emitting center. They have studied energy
transfer, chromphore-chromphore coupling and photon antibunching in these systems.
More recently, Prof. Buratto's group has become interested in the catalytic
activity of metal nanoclusters supported by oxides, especially the size dependence.
His group is part of a multi-investigator team that has probed the size and
shape of mass-selected Aun and Agn (n = 1-8) deposited on
TiO2(110) (1x1) surfaces in UHV. The Buratto group has used UHV-STM
methods to image the binding site of clusters on the titania surface and the resulting
geometry of the cluster. His group has published over 40 papers in the field of
Physical Chemistry.
Martin
Moskovits
Martin Moskovits, has served as
Dean of Science and Professor of Physical Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara since
2000. He was educated at the University of Toronto (BS Physics and Chemistry, 1965,
Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1971). After receiving his B.S. he co-founded OHM Distributors
and Manufacturers Ltd. an electronics manufacturing company which was sold in
1968. He worked at Alcan Research and Development (later re-named Alcan International)
in Kingston during 1970-71 and returned to the University of Toronto attaining the rank of Professor
of Chemistry in 1982. From 1993-1999 he was Chair of the Department of
Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and
founding Director of its Nanoelectronics Program. Professor Moskovits has authored
or co-authored over 200 technical papers, edited or co-edited 3 books and holds
10 patents. He has received over 240 invitations to speak at international conferences
and meetings. Professor Moskovits' research interests have included matrix
isolation, surface science, surface spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman
scattering, metal and semiconductor clusters, template-fabricated
nanostructures and nanotubes. He is best known for his work in surface-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy to which he provided the correct interpretation of the
effect leading to a number of predictions, later confirmed. His current
interests include nanosensors, nanoscience and technology and novel scanning
microscopies. Professor Moskovits is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,
winner of the 1993 Gerhard Herzberg Award of the Spectroscopy Society of
Canada, the 1993 Royal Society of Chemistry (London) award in Surface and Colloid
Science, Killam Fellow (1989-91), Guggenheim Fellow, Department of Chemistry,
UC, Berkeley, 1986-87, the 1995 400th Anniversary Johannes Marcus Marci Medal
of the Czech Spectroscopy Society, 1999 winner of the CSC EWR Steacie Award,
Fellow of Massey College, member of the editorial board of the Journal of
Chemical Physics, member of the Advisory Board of the NRC's Steacie Institute
for Molecular Sciences, member of the Research Corporation's Award Program
Advisory Committee and member of the Santa Barbara Technology Group board of
advisors, member of the Board of Sansum Medical Research Institute, and vice
Chair of the US Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.
Additional
Senior Technical Personnel
Eric W.
McFarland
Eric McFarland obtained his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He is appointed jointly in the departments of
chemical and electrical and computer engineering. His research activities are
focused on the study of condensed matter systems using novel sensors and characterization
methods with emphasis on developing high-throughput screening technologies for
combinatorial materials research. The group is presently using combinatorial
chemistry to investigate new photocatalytic systems for energy production.
Their work, investigating the growth and development of the catalytic, electronic,
and magnetic properties of transition metal thin films on semiconductors, has
led to the creation of a new sensor concept whereby energetic electrons excited
by reactions at the metal surface are detected and give a unique electronic
signature of the chemical phenomena at the surface.
Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler is director of theoretical physics at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, and is one of the most distinguished scientists applying theory to study catalysis, crystal growth, semiconductor surfaces, carbon nano-porous carbon, fuel cells and the properties of a variety of oxides. His group is also contributing substantially to development of new theory and of software that is made available to others. Professor Scheffler has recently been appointed "Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computational Materials Science and Engineering" at UCSB
Galen Stucky
Galen Stucky received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Iowa State University under the supervision of R. E. Rundle. After postdoctoral study at MIT with C. G. Shull, he held positions at the University of Illinois, Sandia National Laboratory, and DuPont Central Research and Development before joining the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1985. He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the Materials Department, and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering. He has published over 580 scientific articles and has been awarded 13 patents. Recent honors include one of three lecturers at the Symposium in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Chemical Institutes at "Hessische Strasse" (2000), the Humboldt Research Prize (2000), the ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials (2002), an IBM Faculty Award (2003), and the IMMS Award (2004). He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. His current research interests include synthesis and characterization of composite materials; understanding Nature's routes to organic/inorganic bio-assembly; and the chemistry associated with efficient utilization of energy resources.
Peter Ford
Peter C. Ford was born in California and earned his BS degree at Caltech and his Ph.D. at Yale. After postdoctoral study at Stanford, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he holds the rank of Professor (Abovescale). He has supervised the research of 55 Ph.D. graduate and numerous B.S., M.S. and postdoctoral students. He has been honored as a Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar, as a Senior Fulbright Fellow, with an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung US Senior Scientist Research Prize, with the 1992 Richard C. Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society, with election as a Fellow of the AAAS and with the 2008 I-APS Award in Photochemistry by the Inter-American Photochemical Society. His current research interests include the photochemistry/physics of metal complexes, catalysis reactions of biomass conversion, and the bioinorganic chemistry of the nitrogen oxides. " at UCSB
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