From Surface Science to Fuel-Cell Catalysis
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A comprehensive understanding of interface phenomena is a prerequisite for continuing progress in catalysis research. In the last decades, impressive improvements in surface imaging and spectroscopy on the one hand and theoretic modelling capabilities on the other gave rise to an increasingly conclusive microscopic picture of adsorption, desorption, and surface reactions. This not only concerns the interfaces solid|vacuum and solid|gas, where improvements in instrumentation are usually introduced first, but also the solid|liquid interface, where most techniques are in principle applicable, too. Also the basic concepts of surface thermodynamics and kinetics, especially in a molecular picture, are generally used in similar ways for both interfaces.
In view of all these similarities, however, it is surprising that scientific meetings in the communities of surface science and electrochemistry are still held largely separately. The goal of this symposium is to bring together top scientists from both communities for presentations of recent advances in their fields and discussions in a common language.
key issues
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nanostructured surfaces: fabrication and (electro)chemical properties
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structural effects in (electro)catalysis: from sub-nm to µm scale
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in situ
observation of surface processes: imaging and spectroscopy
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solid|gas vs. solid|liquid interface: similarities and differences
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from isolated adsorbates to complex surface phases: limits of the molecular picture?
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quantitative links between theory and experiment
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From Surface Science to Fuel-Cell Catalysis