MSE Virtual Seminar: Charlie Campbell, University of Washington
Description
Transition metal catalysts for energy technologies:
Fundamental understanding and pathways to catalyst design
Charles T. Campbell
Departments of Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Prof. Charles T. Campbell is the Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Washington, where he is also Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Physics. He is the author of over 330 publications and two patents on surface chemistry, catalysis, physical chemistry and biosensing, with over 29,000 total citations and an h-index of 90 (Google Scholar). He is an elected Fellow of the ACS, the AVS and the AAAS, and Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He received the Arthur W. Adamson Award of the ACS, the ACS Award for Colloid or Surface Chemistry, the ACS Catalysis Award for Exceptional Achievements, the Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award, the Robert Burwell Award/Lectureship of the North American Catalysis Society, the Medard W. Welch Award of the AVS, the Gauss Professorship of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Ipatieff Lectureship of Northwestern University and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Surface Science for over ten years, and now serves as Editor-in-Chief of Surface Science Reports, and on the Boards of Catalysis Reviews, Catalysis Letters and Topics in Catalysis. He received his BS (1975) and PhD (1979) degrees at the University of Texas at Austin in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, respectively, then did postdoctoral research in Germany under Gerhard Ertl (who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry).
Better catalysts and electro-catalysts are required for clean-energy technologies and environmental protection. Experimental and theoretical results concerning the energetics and kinetics of surface chemical reactions of importance for designing better late transition metal catalysis will be reviewed. Topics include: (1) measurements of the adsorption energies of small molecules and molecular fragments on single crystal surfaces, and their use in improving density functional theory (DFT); (2) the effects of solvents of such adsorption energies; (3) a method for analyzing kinetic models based on elementary-step kinetic parameters that can be used with DFT to computationally optimize catalytic materials, and (4) measurements of the energies of transition metal atoms in nanoparticle catalysts as a function of particle size and support, which correlate with catalytic performance and give ideas for better catalysts.
For Webinar information please contact Kyle Page (kmp265@cornell.edu)