Research Projects
According to estimates at least 60% of the industrial products and 90% of chemical transformations are based on catalysts. Most large scale catalytic processes are heterogeneously catalyzed. This is the area of our research. We aim towards an atomic level understanding of basic heterogeneously catalyst processes.
- Application of molecular beam techniques to characterize the morphology of catalyst surfaces as well as gaining a deeper understanding of the gas-surface interaction. These topics are related to heterogeneous catalysis and materials science applications.
- Measurements on nano-structured catalyst surfaces such as metal nano-clusters, and nano-tubes.
- Modeling of the obtained results by Monte Carlo Simulations and kinetic (time resolved) Monte Carlo Simulations.
Keywords
surface science; experimental; heterogeneous catalysis; molecular beam scattering; dynamics; kinetics; spectroscopy; AES; XPS; ultra-high vacuum; UHV; supported cluster; model catalysts; nanocatalysts; metal oxides, nanoscience, nanotubes, electron beam lithography; ambient pressure kinetics, GC
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