Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures Publications

October 2008–September 2009)

Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures—Miquel B. Salmeron, Program Leader
Kenta Arima, Peng Jiang, Deng-Sung Lin, Albert Verdaguer and Miquel Salmeron. Ion Segregation and Deliquescence of Alkali Halide Nanocrystals on SiO2. J. Phys. Chem. A.  113 (35), 9715-9720 (2009)
MouslimTatarkhanov, D.Frank Ogletree, Franck Rose, Toshiyuki Mitsui, Evgeny Fomin, Mark Rose, Jorge I. Cerdá, Miquel Salmeron. Metal- and hydrogen-bonding competition during water adsorption on Pd(111) and Ru(0001). J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 18425 (2009).
D. Nordlund, H. Ogasawara, K.J. Andersson, M. Tatarkhanov, M. Salmeron, L.G.M. Pettersson, A. Nilsson, Sensitivity of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Hydrogen Bond Topology, Phys. Rev. B. 80, 233404 (2009).
E. Loginova, S. Maier, I. Stass, N.C. Bartelt, P.J. Feibelman, M. Salmeron, K.F. McCarty Graphene Growth by Metal Etching on Ru(0001) Phys. Rev. B. 80, 235422 (2009).
C. Tsung, J. N. Kuhn, W. Huang, C. Aliaga, G. A. Somorjai, P. Yang, “Sub-10 nm Platinum Nanocrystals with Size and Shape Control: Catalytic Study for Ethylene and Pyrrole Hydrogenation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 5816, 2009.
Z. Huo, F. Tsung, W. Huang, M. Fardy, R. Yan, Y. Li, X. Zhang, P. Yang, “Self-organized ultrathin oxide nanocrystals”, Nano. Lett., 9, 1260, 2009.
S. Joo, J. Park, C. Tsung, Y. Yamada, P. Yang, G. A. Somorjai, “Thermally Stable Nanocatalyst for High Temperature Reactions: Pt-Mesoporous Silica Core-Shell Nanoparticles”, Nature Mater., 8, 126, 2009.
Sang Hoon Joo, Jeong Young Park, Chia-Kuang Tsung, Yusuke Yamada, Peidong Yang and Gabor A. Somorjai. Thermally Stable Pt/Mesoporous Silica Core-Shell Nanocatalysts for High-Temperature Reactions.   Nature Materials 8 (February), 126 (2009). LBNL-2410E
Roger L. York, Yimin Li, George J. Holinga and Gabor A. Somorjai. J. Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectra:  The Influence of Experimental Geometry for an Absorptive Medium or Media. Phys. Chem. A 113, 2768-2774 (2009).
Cesar Aliaga, Jeong Y. Park, Yusuke Yamada, Hyun Sook Lee, Chia-Kuang Tsung, Peidong Yang and Gabor A. Somorjai.  Sum Frequency Generation and Catalytic Reaction Studies of the Removal of Organic Capping Agents from Pt Nanoparticles by UV ¾ Ozone Treatment.  J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 6150-6155 (2009). LBNL-2425E
Gabor A. Somorjai and Jeong Y. Park. Concepts, Instruments, and Model Systems that Enabled the Rapid Evolution of Surface Science.  Surface Science 603, 1293-1300 (2009). LBNL-2433E
Feng Tao, Sefa Dag, Lin-Wang, Zhi Liu, Derek Butcher, Miquel Salmeron and Gabor A. Somorjai. Restructuring of hex-Pt(100) under CO Gas Environments:  formation of 2_D Nanoclusters.  Nano Letters 9, 2167-2171 (2009).
Leonid Belau, Jeong Y. Park, Ted Liang, Hyuntak Seo and Gabor A. Somorjai.  Chemical Effect of Dry and Wet Cleaning of the Ru Protective Layer of the Extreme ultraviolet Lithography Reflector.  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 27(4) 1919-1925 (2009).  LBNL-2430E
Yuri Borodko, Louis Jones, Hyunjoo Lee, Heinz Frei and Gabor A. Somorjai,  Spectroscopic Study of Tetradecyltrimethylammonium Bromide Pt-C14TAB Nanoparticles: Structure, Stability, and Electron-Phonon Coupling.  Langmuir 25, 6665-6671 (2009).
Christopher J. Kliewer, Marco Beiri and Gabor A. Somorjai.  Hydrogenation of the a, b-Unsaturated Aldehydes Acrolein, Crotonaldehyde, and Prenal over Pt Single Crystals:  A Kinetic and Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 9968-9966 (2009).
Roger L. York, George J. Holinga and Gabor A. Somorjai. An Investigation of the Influence of Chain Length on the Interfacial Ordering of L-Lysine and L-Proline and Their Homopeptides at Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interfaces Studied by Sum Frequency Generation and Quartz Crystal Microbalance.  Langmuir 25, 9369-9374 (2009).
Gabor A. Somorjai, Heinz Frei, and Jeong Y. Park.  Advancing the Frontiers in Nanocatalysis, Biointerfaces, and Renewable Energy Conversion by Innovations of Surface Techniques.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 16589-16605 (2009).
Gabor A. Somorjai. Heinz Heinemann.  The Berkeley Years (1978-1993).  Cat. Lett. 133, 232-233 (2009).
Gabor A. Somorjai, Feng Tao and Derek Butcher.  Surface Mobility of Atoms and Molecules Studied with High Pressure Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.  In Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Surface Science, Nanoscience and Catalysis, Eds. Michael Bowker and Philip R. Davies.  Wiley-VCH Verlag , Weinheim (2010) pp. 189-217

(October 2007–September 2008)

M.B. Salmeron
Albers, B. J.; Liebmann, M.; Schwendemann, T. C.; Baykara, M. Z.; Heyde, M.; Salmeron, M.; Altman, E.
I.; Schwarz, U. D., Combined low-temperature scanning tunneling/atomic force microscope for
atomic resolution imaging and site-specific force spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments
2008, 79, (3).
Cabrera-Sanfelix, P.; Sanchez-Portal, D.; Mugarza, A.; Shimizu, T. K.; Salmeron, M.; Arnau, A., Water
adsorption on O(2x2)/Ru(0001): STM experiments and first-principles calculations. Physical
Review B 2007, 76, (20).
Demchenko, D. O.; Sacha, G. M.; Salmeron, M.; Wang, L. W., Interactions of oxygen and hydrogen on
Pd(111) surface. Surface Science 2008, 602, (14), 2552-2557.
Fang, L.; Park, J. Y.; Cui, Y.; Alivisatos, P.; Shcrier, J.; Lee, B.; Wang, L. W.; Salmeron, M., Mechanical
and electrical properties of CdTe tetrapods studied by atomic force microscopy. Journal of
Chemical Physics 2007, 127, (18).
Fang, L.; Park, J. Y.; Ma, H.; Jen, A. K. Y.; Salmeron, M., Atomic force microscopy study of the
mechanical and electrical properties of monolayer films of molecules with aromatic end groups.
Langmuir 2007, 23, (23), 11522-11525.
Ketteler, G.; Ashby, P.; Mun, B. S.; Ratera, I.; Bluhm, H.; Kasemo, B.; Salmeron, M., In situ photoelectron
spectroscopy study of water adsorption on model biomaterial surfaces. Journal of Physics-
Condensed Matter 2008, 20, (18).
Mugarza, A.; Shimizu, T. K.; Cabrera-Sanfelix, P.; Sanchez-Portal, D.; Arnau, A.; Salmeron, M.,
Adsorption of water on O(2x2)/Ru(0001): Thermal stability and inhibition of dissociation. Journal
of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112, (36), 14052-14057.
Park, J. Y.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M.; Jenks, C. J.; Thiel, P. A.; Brenner, J.; Dubois, J. M., Friction
anisotropy: A unique and intrinsic property of decagonal quasicrystals. Journal of Materials
Research 2008, 23, (5), 1488-1493.
Qi, Y. B.; Park, J. Y.; Hendriksen, B. L. M.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M., Electronic contribution to friction
on GaAs: An atomic force microscope study. Physical Review B 2008, 77, (18).
Rose, F.; Tatarkhanov, M.; Fomin, E.; Salmeron, M., Nature of the dissociation sites of hydrogen
molecules on Ru(001). Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111, (51), 19052-19057.
Shimizu, T. K.; Mugarza, A.; Cerda, J. I.; Heyde, M.; Qi, Y. B.; Schwarz, U. D.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron,
M., Surface species formed by the adsorption and dissociation of water molecules on a Ru(0001)
surface containing a small coverage of carbon atoms studied by scanning tunneling microscopy.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112, (19), 7445-7454.
Tatarkhanov, M.; Rose, F.; Fomin, E.; Ogletree, D. F.; Salmeron, M., Hydrogen adsorption on Ru(001)
studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. Surface Science 2008, 602, (2), 487-492.

G.A. Somorjai
Bratlie, K. M.; Komvopoulos, K.; Somorjai, G. A., Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy of
pyridine hydrogenation on platinum nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112,
(31), 11865-11868.
Bratlie, K. M.; Lee, H.; Komvopoulos, K.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G. A., Platinum nanoparticle shape
effects on benzene hydrogenation selectivity. Nano Letters 2007, 7, (10), 3097-3101.
Bratlie, K. M.; Li, Y. M.; Larsson, R.; Somorjai, G. A., Compensation effect of benzene hydrogenation on
Pt(111) and Pt(100) analyzed by the selective energy transfer model. Catalysis Letters 2008, 121,
46 (3-4), 173-178.
Kliewer, C. J.; Bieri, M.; Somorjai, G. A., Pyrrole hydrogenation over Rh(111) and Pt(111) single-crystal
surfaces and hydrogenation promotion mediated by 1-methylpyrrole: A kinetic and sum-frequency
generation vibrational spectroscopy study. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112, (30),
11373-11378.
Lee, H. J.; Habas, S. E.; Somorjai, G. A.; Yang, P. D., Localized Pd overgrowth on cubic Pt nanocrystals
for enhanced electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008, 130, (16), 5406-+.
Somorjai, G. A.; Park, J. Y., Evolution of the surface science of catalysis from single crystals to metal
nanoparticles under pressure. Journal of Chemical Physics 2008, 128, (18).
Somorjai, G. A.; Rous, P. J., John Pendry: his contributions to the development of low energy electron
diffraction surface crystallography. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 2008, 20, (30).
Somorjai, G. A.; Tao, F.; Park, J. Y., The nanoscience revolution: Merging of colloid science, catalysis and
nanoelectronics. Topics in Catalysis 2008, 47, (1-2), 1-14.
Somorjai, G. A. a. J. Y. P., Frontiers of Surface Science. Physics Today 2007, October, 48.
Somorjai, G. A. a. P., J. Y., Molecular Surface Chemistry by Metal Single Crystals and Nanoparticles from
Vacuum to High Pressure Chem. Soc. Rev.. 2008, 37, 2155.
Somorjai, G. A. P., J.Y. , Colloid Science of Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts in 2D and 3D Structures.
Challenges of Nucleation, Growth, Composition, Particle Shape, Size Control and their Indluence
on Activity and Selectivity. . Topics in Catalysis 2008, 49, 126.
Tao, F.; Tang, D.; Salmeron, M.; Somorjai, G. A., A new scanning tunneling microscope reactor used for
high-pressure and high-temperature catalysis studies. Review of Scientific Instruments 2008, 79,
(8).
York, R. L.; Browne, W. K.; Geissler, P. L.; Somorjai, G. A., Peptides adsorbed on hydrophobic surfaces -
A sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy and modeling study. Israel Journal of
Chemistry 2007, 47, (1), 51-58.
York, R. L.; Holinga, G. J.; Guyer, D. R.; McCrea, K. R.; Ward, R. S.; Somorjai, G. A., A new optical
parametric amplifier based on lithium thioindate used for sum frequency generation vibrational
spectroscopic studies of the amide I mode of an interfacial model peptide. Applied Spectroscopy
2008, 62, (9), 937-940.
Park, J. Y.; Lee, H.; Renzas, J. R.; Zhang, Y. W.; Somorjai, G. A., Probing hot bectron flow generated on
Pt nanoparticles with Au/TiO2 Schottky diodes during catalytic CO oxidation. Nano Letters 2008,
8, (8), 2388-2392.
Park, J. Y.; Renzas, J. R.; Hsu, B. B.; Somorjai, G. A., Interfacial and chemical properties of Pt/TiO2,
Pd/TiO2, and Pt/GaN catalytic nanodiodes influencing hot electron flow. Journal of Physical
Chemistry C 2007, 111, (42), 15331-15336.
Park, J. Y.; Zhang, Y.; Grass, M.; Zhang, T.; Somorjai, G. A., Tuning of catalytic CO oxidation by
changing composition of Rh-Pt bimetallic nanoparticles. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (2), 673-677.
Zhang, Y. W.; Grass, M. E.; Kuhn, J. N.; Tao, F.; Habas, S. E.; Huang, W. Y.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G.
A., Highly selective synthesis of cataytically active monodisperse rhodium nanocubes. Journal of
the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (18), 5868-+.

P.D. Yang
Bratlie, K. M.; Lee, H.; Komvopoulos, K.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G. A., Platinum nanoparticle shape
effects on benzene hydrogenation selectivity. Nano Letters 2007, 7, (10), 3097-3101.
Grass, M. E.; Yue, Y.; Habas, S. E.; Rioux, R. M.; Teall, C. I.; Yang, P.; Somorjai, G. A., Silver ion
mediated shape control of platinum nanoparticles: Removal of silver by selective etching leads to
increased catalytic activity. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112, (13), 4797-4804.
Habas, S. E.; Yang, P. D.; Mokari, T., Selective growth of metal and binary metal tips on US nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (11), 3294.
Huang, W.; Kuhn, J. N.; Tsung, C. K.; Zhang, Y.; Habas, S. E.; Yang, P.; Somorjai, G. A., Dendrimer
templated synthesis of one nanometer Rh and Pt particles supported on mesoporous silica:
Catalytic activity for ethylene and pyrrole hydrogenation. Nano Letters 2008, 8, (7), 2027-2034.
Lee, H. J.; Habas, S. E.; Somorjai, G. A.; Yang, P. D., Localized Pd overgrowth on cubic Pt nanocrystals
for enhanced electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008, 130, (16), 5406-+.
Mulvihill, M.; Tao, A.; Benjauthrit, K.; Arnold, J.; Yang, P., Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for
trace arsenic detection in contaminated water. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2008,
47, (34), 6456-6460.
Rioux, R. M.; Hoefelmeyer, J. D.; Grass, M.; Song, H.; Niesz, K.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G. A., Adsorption
and co-adsorption of ethylene and carbon monoxide on silica-supported monodisperse Pt
nanoparticles: Volumetric adsorption and infrared spectroscopy studies. Langmuir 2008, 24, (1),
198-207.
Rioux, R. M.; Komor, R.; Song, H.; Hoefelmeyer, J. D.; Grass, M.; Niesz, K.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G. A.,
Kinetics and mechanism of ethylene hydrogenation poisoned by CO on silica-supported
monodisperse Pt nanoparticles. Journal of Catalysis 2008, 254, (1), 1-11.
Tao, A.; Habas, S.; Yang, P., Shape Control of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals. Small 2008, 4, 310.
Zhang, Y. W.; Grass, M. E.; Kuhn, J. N.; Tao, F.; Habas, S. E.; Huang, W. Y.; Yang, P. D.; Somorjai, G.
A., Highly selective synthesis of cataytically active monodisperse rhodium nanocubes. Journal of
the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (18), 5868-+.
Zhang, Y. W.; Huang, W. Y.; Habas, S. E.; Kuhn, J. N.; Grass, M. E.; Yamada, Y.; Yang, P.; Somorjai, G.
A., Near-monodisperse Ni-Cu bimetallic nanocrystals of variable composition: Controlled
synthesis and catalytic activity for H-2 generation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112,
(32), 12092-12095.

(October 2006–September 2007)

M. Salmeron
T. Mitsui, E. Fomin, D. F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron, A. U. Nilekar and M. Mavrikakis, "Manipulation and Patterning of the Surface Hydrogen Concentration on Pd(111) by Electric Fields", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 46 (30), 5757-5761 (2007).
M. Montano, K. Bratlie, M. Salmeron and G. A. Somorjai, "Hydrogen and Deuterium Exchange on Pt(111) and Its Poisoning by Carbon Monoxide Studied by Surface Sensitive High-Pressure Techniques", Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (40), 13229-13234 (2006).
J. Y. Park, Y. B. Qi, D. F. Ogletree, P. A. Thiel and M. Salmeron, "Influence of Carrier Density on the Friction Properties of Silicon Pn Junctions", Physical Review B 76 (6), 064108 (2007).
M. Salmeron, "Surfaces in Equilibrium with Ultra-High Vacuum to Atmospheric Pressure Environments Studied with Novel Imaging and Spectroscopic Techniques", Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 156, XXII (2007).
A. Verdaguer, C. Weis, G. Oncins, G. Ketteler, H. Bluhm and M. Salmeron, "Growth and Structure of Water on Sio2 Films on Si Investigated by Kelvin Probe Microscopy and in Situ X-Ray Spectroscopies", Langmuir 23 (19), 9699-9703 (2007).
G. Ketteler, S. Yamamoto, H. Bluhm, K. Andersson, D. E. Starr, D. F. Ogletree, H. Ogasawara, A. Nilsson and M. Salmeron, "The Nature of Water Nucleation Sites on Tio2(110) Surfaces Revealed by Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 (23), 8278-8282 (2007).

D.F. Ogletree
G. Ketteler, S. Yamamoto, H. Bluhm, K. Andersson, D. E. Starr, D. F. Ogletree, H. Ogasawara, A. Nilsson and M. Salmeron, "The Nature of Water Nucleation Sites on Tio2(110) Surfaces Revealed by Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 (23), 8278-8282 (2007).
T. Mitsui, E. Fomin, D. F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron, A. U. Nilekar and M. Mavrikakis, "Manipulation and Patterning of the Surface Hydrogen Concentration on Pd(111) by Electric Fields", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 46 (30), 5757-5761 (2007).
J. Y. Park, Y. B. Qi, D. F. Ogletree, P. A. Thiel and M. Salmeron, "Influence of Carrier Density on the Friction Properties of Silicon Pn Junctions", Physical Review B 76 (6), 064108 (2007).