Focus Session: Wetting and Hard-Soft Interfaces

Presentations

• Water Enhanced Catalysis of CO Oxidation on Free and Supported Gold Nanoclusters

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:15 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Angelo Bongiorno

  • Uzi Landman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Inst. of Technology
    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics
    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    • Team 2

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• Tuning the diamond surface from hydrophobic to superhydrophilic by submonolayer surface modification

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:27 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Sheng Meng

    • Physics, University of Texas at Austin and Physics, Harvard University
    • University of Texas \& ORNL

  • Zhenyu Zhang

    • Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory \& University of Tennessee
    • University of Tennessee \& ORNL
    • Oak Ridge National Lab
    • Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee

  • Efthimios Kaxiras

    • Physics, Harvard University

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• Infrared Studies of Water Adsorption on Acetic Acid thin films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:39 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Michel Malick Thiam

  • Maryam Ebrahimi

  • Kam Tong Leung

    • WATLABs, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

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• Ab-initio simulations of H2O interaction with b-SiC surfaces.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2006, 11:51 AM – March 16, 2006, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Giancarlo Cicero

    • INFM, Torino Polytechnic
    • Politecnico of Turin

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• Physics of solid and liquid alkali halide surfaces near the melting point

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:27 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Tatyana Zykova-Timan

    • SISSA, Trieste

  • Davide Ceresoli

    • SISSA, INFM, Democritos, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy

  • Ugo Tartaglino

    • SISSA, INFM, Democritos, via Beirut 2-4

  • Erio Tosatti

    • SISSA, Democritos, ICTP, P.O. Box 586, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
    • SISSA, ICTP, and Democritos, Trieste (Italy)
    • SISSA and ICTP, Trieste
    • SISSA/ICTP/Democritos Trieste
    • SISSA, INFM, Democritos, ICTP, P.O. Box 586, I-34014 Trieste, Italy

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• Nanoscale Observation of Alkane Dewetting

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:39 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Mengjun Bai

  • Klaus Knorr

  • Matthew Simpson

  • Sven Trogisch

  • Haskell Taub

    • U. Mo.-Columbia

  • Ulrich Volkmann

    • P. U. Cat\'{o}lica Chile

  • Flemming Hansen

    • Tech. U. Denmark

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• Energetics of benzene and phenol adsorption on a TiO$_{2}$(110) surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:51 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • A. Baddorf

  • Sefa Dag

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • ORNL
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

  • J. Zhou

  • S. Kalinin

  • S. Overbury

  • D. Mullins

  • V. Meunier

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • Computer Science \& Mathematics Div and CNMS, ORNL POBox 2008, TN 37831-6367 USA

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• Adsorption and reaction of benzene and phenol with Pd nanoparticles supported on TiO$_{2}$(110)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:03 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • J. Zhou

  • S. V. Kalinin

  • Sefa Dag

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • ORNL
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

  • V. Meunier

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • Computer Science \& Mathematics Div and CNMS, ORNL POBox 2008, TN 37831-6367 USA

  • S. H. Overbury

  • D. R. Mullins

  • A. P. Baddorf

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• LEEM study of the growth of 6,13-pentacenequinone thin films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:15 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jerzy Sadowski

  • Abdullah Al-Mahboob

  • Tsuguki Nishihara

  • Yasunori Fujikawa

  • Toshio Sakurai

    • Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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• Growth of divalent metal carbonates at soft organic templates.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:27 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Sumit Kewalramani

  • Geoffrey Dommett

  • Kyungil Kim

  • Guennadi Evmenenko

  • Haiding Mo

  • Pulak Dutta

    • Northwestern University

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• Structural characterization and molecular dynamics within low-coverage films of $p$-terphenyl adsorbed onto graphite

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:39 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Edward Kintzel

  • Kenneth Herwig

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Comparative STM study of azobenzene derivatives on bare and insulator coated metal surfaces

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:51 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Niv Levy

  • Matthew J. Comstock

  • Jongweon Cho

  • Armen Kirakosian

  • Carine Edder

  • Jean M. J. Frechet

  • Frank Lauterwasser

  • Jessica Harvey

  • Dirk Trauner

  • Michael Crommie

    • Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley; Mat. Sci. Div, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab
    • Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

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• Unoccupied electronic states at the interface of alkanethiol SAMs on Au(111)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 2:03 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Matthias Muntwiler

  • Chad Lindstrom

  • Xiaoyang Zhu

    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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