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Research

Why Surfaces?

Our group investigates fundamental structural, electronic, and chemical surface and interface properties of solid materials. 

Surfaces of materials are where the action is! Most chemical and physical processes such as gas-solid interactions, atomic-vapor deposition, corrosion, as well as environmental and technological chemical transformation reactions occur at the surface of a material. Therefore, a better understanding of the interplay between composition, structure and chemical properties are important for optimizing technological processes such as thin film synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, solid state gas sensing, and photocatalysis. In addition, the formation of interfaces between dissimilar materials -- their structural and electronic properties -- is the basis for most microelectronic devices. Finally, reduced sizes and even dimensions of many nanomaterials results in surface properties to become dominant over bulk properties and consequently surface science studies are more important than ever.