- Miquel Salmeron
Director, Materials Sciences Division
LBNL Senior Scientist
Scientific Director, the Molecular Foundry Imaging and
Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility
Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley
- mbsalmeron@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-6230
Education:
B. A. Physics University of Barcelona,
Spain
M.A. Physics Universite Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Ph.D. Physics Universidad Autonoma de
Madrid, Spain
 Major Awards:
2008 Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society
2003 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
1996 Fellow of the American Physical Society
1996 DOE Outstanding Research Award in Materials Chemistry
1995 DOE Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award in Materials Chemistry
General Research Interests:
• The atomic structure
of surfaces: imaging and manipulation
of individual atoms and molecules.
Adsorption, diffusion and
reactions of molecules on single crystal metal and oxide surfaces
• Mechanical
properties of materials at the atomic level: how
atoms and molecules exchange energy during frictional sliding
• The
structure of liquid films and droplets at the molecular level: wetting
phenomena, dissolution
• Molecular electronics: molecules to conduct
electricity, rectification and semiconducting properties. Relation
between molecular structure and electronic properties
• Catalysis and
environmental science using Scanning Tunneling and Force Microscopies,
Photoelectron Spectroscopy under ambient conditions at the Berkeley
Synchrotron
MSD Research Projects:
Atomic Scale Mechanical and Chemical
Properties of Surfaces
Self-assembly of Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite Materials
Chemical and Biological Reactions at Environmental
Interfaces
Molecular Foundry Imaging and Manipulation Facility
program
MSD Research Highlights:
Of Friction
and the DaVinci Code
Molecular
Foundry Scientist Educates Journalists–Scientific Literacy
Project, SF
Lab Scientist
Interviewed on Hispanic Public Radio Camino al Futuro (Road
to the Future)
Sea-Salt
Aerosol Surfaces—New Synchrotron Spectroscopy Technique Probes
Solution Dynamics
Personal
website: http://stm.lbl.gov/Salmeron_group/home.html
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