Impact of Surface Science on Catalysis

Bruce C. Gates, Helmut Knozinger (Eds.)978-0-12-007845-5

Written by leading surface scientists, Impact of Surface Science on Catalysis is a compendium of up-to-date theoretical and experimental results fundamental to understanding surface catalysis. The contents illustrate the dramatic developments in surfaces and adsorbates emerging from density functional theory, calorimetry, and scanning tunneling microscopy. Results of sum frequency generation provide explanations of how reactive intermediates on surfaces are measured during catalysis. Additionally, new data illustrate structures and reactivities of metal oxide surfaces and metal particles dispersed on thin, well-ordered oxide layers.

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Table of contents :
Content:
Contributors
Page ix

Preface
Pages xi-xii
B.C. Gates, H. Knözinger

Dynamics of reactions at surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 1-69
Gerhard Ertl

Theoretical surface science and catalysis—calculations and concepts Original Research Article
Pages 71-129
B. Hammer, J.K. Nørskov

Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of catalytic reactions Original Research Article
Pages 131-206
Joost Wintterlin

Adsorption energetics and bonding from femtomole calorimetry and from first principles theory Original Research Article
Pages 207-259
Qingfeng Ge, Rickmer Kose, David A. King

Active sites on oxides: From single crystals to catalysts Original Research Article
Pages 261-331
Hicham Idriss, Mark A. Barteau

Catalysis and surface science: What do we learn from studies of oxide-supported cluster model systems? Original Research Article
Pages 333-384
H.-J. Freund, M. Bäumer, H. Kuhlenbeck

Sum frequency generation: Surface vibrational spectroscopy studies of catalytic reactions on metal single-crystal surfaces Original Research Article
Pages 385-438
Gabor A. Somorjai, Keith R. McCrea

Index
Pages 439-448