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Nanotribology

Surface Science

Atomic scale manipulation

Catalysis

Atomic scale imaging, manipulation, and spectroscopy Mechanical and electrical properties of molecules in self-assembled films Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy for environnemental sciences Studies of friction, adhesion, and wear at the nanometer scale Electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties of nanoclusters Structure of thin liquid films and wetting Nanoscale material imaging and manipulation (Molecular Foundry) Catalytic and chemical properties of surfaces

 

 

 

 

Updated by Sabine, August 10 2008

Welcometo the Salmeron group.The research in the group of Prof. Salmeron is centered on the nanometer scale mechanical, chemical and physical properties of surfaces and interfaces.

 

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Prof. Miquel Salmeron wins
AVS Medard W. Welch Award

Featured ResultsDissociative hydrogen adsorption on palladium requires aggregates of three or more vacancies
T. Mitsui, M.K. Rose, E. Fomin, D.F. Ogletree, and M. Salmeron
Nature. 422, 705 (2003). LBNL-52007

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Monte Carlo simulations of hydrogen vacancy diffusion and aggregation in a 1x1 layer of hydrogen on Pd(111)

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Recent publications

Water diffusion and clustering on Pd(111)
T. Mitsui, M.K. Rose, E. Fomin, D. Frank Ogletree and M. Salmeron
Science. 297, 1850 (2002).

Dissociative hydrogen adsorption on palladium requires aggregates of three or more vacancies
T. Mitsui, M.K. Rose, E. Fomin, D.F. Ogletree, and M. Salmeron
Nature. 422, 705 (2003).

High Frictional Anisotropy of Periodic and Aperiodic Directions on a Quasicrystal Surface
J.Y. Park, D.F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron, R.A. Ribeiro, P.C. Canfield, C.J. Jenks and P.A. Thiel
Science. 309, 1354 (2005).

Electronic Control of Friciton in Silicon pn junctions
J.Y. Park, D.F. Ogletree, P.A. Thiel, M. Salmeron
Science. 313, 5784 (2006).

Hydrogen and deuterium exchange on Pt(111) and its poisoning by carbon monoxide studied by surface sensitive high-pressure techniques
M. Montano, K. Bratlie, M. Salmeron, and G.A. Somorjai
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, (40) 13231 (2006)

Electronic structure of cobalt nanocrystals suspended in liquid
Hongjian Liu, Jinghua Guo, Yadong Yin, Andreas Augustsson, Chungli Dong, Joseph Nordgren, Chinglin Chang, Paul Alivisatos, Geoff Thornton, D. Frank Ogletree, Felix G. Requejo, Frank de Groot, Miquel Salmeron
Nanoletters 7, 1919-1922 (2007)

Autocatalytic water dissociation on Cu(110) at near ambient conditions
Klas Andersson, Guido Ketteler, Hendrik Bluhm, Susumu Yamamoto, Hirohito Ogasawara, Lars G. M. Pettersson, Miquel Salmeron, Anders Nilsson
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 2793 (2008)  

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