Step and island dynamics at solid/vacuum and solid/liquid interfaces

M Giesen - Progress in Surface Science, 2001 - Elsevier
The investigation of step and island dynamics on surfaces has enormously contributed to the
microscopic understanding of mass transport processes in equilibrium, during growth and …

Reshaping, intermixing, and coarsening for metallic nanocrystals: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanical and coarse-grained modeling

KC Lai, Y Han, P Spurgeon, W Huang, PA Thiel… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of supported 2D or 3D nanocrystals (NCs) by vacuum deposition and of 3D
NCs by solution-phase synthesis (with possible subsequent transfer to a support) produces …

Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO2 Electroreduction

TH Phan, K Banjac, FP Cometto, F Dattila… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) is a promising strategy toward sustainable fuels. Cu
is the only Earth-abundant and pure metal capable of catalyzing CO2-to-hydrocarbons …

Making waves: kinetic processes controlling surface evolution during low energy ion sputtering

WL Chan, E Chason - Journal of applied physics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
When collimated beams of low energy ions are used to bombard materials, the surface often
develops a periodic pattern or “ripple” structure. Different types of patterns are observed to …

[图书][B] The chemical physics of solid surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis

DA King - 2012 - books.google.com
Surface Properties of Electronic Materials is the fifth volume of the series, The Chemical
Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis. This volume indicates the present …

A physical analogue of the Schelling model

D Vinković, A Kirman - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
We present a mathematical link between Schelling's socio-economic model of segregation
and the physics of clustering. We replace the economic concept of “utility” by the physics …

Surface diffusion manifestation in electrodeposition of metal anodes

BS Vishnugopi, F Hao, A Verma… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal anode-based battery systems have been deemed indispensable towards energy
storage renaissance engendering extensive research into strategies countering dendritic …

Nothing moves a surface: Vacancy mediated surface diffusion

R Van Gastel, E Somfai, SB Van Albada… - Physical review …, 2001 - APS
We report scanning tunneling microscopy observations, which imply that all atoms in a Cu
(001) surface move frequently, even at room temperature. Using a low density of embedded …

Coarsening of two-dimensional nanoclusters on metal surfaces

PA Thiel, M Shen, DJ Liu, JW Evans - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We describe experimental observations and theoretical analysis of the coarsening of
distributions of two-dimensional nanoclusters, either adatom islands or vacancy pits, on …

Decay of Cu adatom islands on Cu (111)

GS Icking-Konert, M Giesen, H Ibach - Surface science, 1998 - Elsevier
We have investigated the decay of Cu adatom islands on Cu (111) as a function of
temperature using scanning tunneling microscopy. By comparing the experimental results …