Solid Surface Physicochemistry: Several Research Frontiers

Author: Wan Hailin et al
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: To promote and advance the research in surface physicochemistry of solids and related fields, the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physicochemistry of Solids at Xiamen University organized the writing of this monograph in 2003. The team included 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, over 20 professors, and more than 40 researchers and graduate students who had been working in the field of surface physicochemistry and related research areas for many years, with a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the research dynamics both domestically and internationally. Based on their own research work, they wrote Frontiers in Surface Physicochemistry of Solids, aiming to balance the development trends in the frontiers of catalytic chemistry, electrochemistry, structural quantum chemistry, and other branches of physicochemistry while focusing on reflecting the major progress, development trends, and recent achievements of the authors and relevant scholars internationally in these branches over the past 10 years. The content includes: valence bond theory methods, chemical adsorption and reaction on metal and metal oxide surfaces, covalent chemistry on the walls of carbon nanotubes, reaction mechanisms of N2 and CO hydrogenation on metal catalysts, and the role of ionic compound cocatalysts, certain issues in light alkane activation and oxygen-containing transformation, electrochemistry and electrocatalysis on metal single crystal surfaces, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, in-situ scanning tunneling microscopy in surface electrochemical research, in-situ surface X-ray diffraction technology in surface electrochemical research, spatially resolved electrochemical research methods, electrochemistry of semiconductors and polymers, electrochemistry of biomolecules, electrode materials and electrode processes in lithium-ion batteries, catalytic synthesis and application of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, ruthenium-based ammonia synthesis catalysts and their mechanisms, chiral metal complex catalysis of asymmetric hydrogenation reactions, chiral metal centers in nitrogenase and heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis, catalytic selective oxidation of methane to oxygen-containing compounds, the selective oxidation catalytic role of rhenium, catalytic combustion technology and its core catalysts, etc. The chapters in the book are independent yet interconnected and cross-reference each other. These discussions are expected to be of certain reference value for researchers engaged in physicochemical research, as well as for faculty and students in chemistry and chemical engineering-related disciplines at higher education institutions.
To promote and advance the research in surface physicochemistry of solids and related fields, the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physicochemistry of Solids at Xiamen University organized the writing of this monograph in 2003. The team included 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, over 20 professors, and more than 40 researchers and graduate students who had been working in the field of surface physicochemistry and related research areas for many years, with a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the research dynamics both domestically and internationally. Based on their own research work, they wrote Frontiers in Surface Physicochemistry of Solids, aiming to balance the development trends in the frontiers of catalytic chemistry, electrochemistry, structural quantum chemistry, and other branches of physicochemistry while focusing on reflecting the major progress, development trends, and recent achievements of the authors and relevant scholars internationally in these branches over the past 10 years. The content includes: valence bond theory methods, chemical adsorption and reaction on metal and metal oxide surfaces, covalent chemistry on the walls of carbon nanotubes, reaction mechanisms of N2 and CO hydrogenation on metal catalysts, and the role of ionic compound cocatalysts, certain issues in light alkane activation and oxygen-containing transformation, electrochemistry and electrocatalysis on metal single crystal surfaces, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, in-situ scanning tunneling microscopy in surface electrochemical research, in-situ surface X-ray diffraction technology in surface electrochemical research, spatially resolved electrochemical research methods, electrochemistry of semiconductors and polymers, electrochemistry of biomolecules, electrode materials and electrode processes in lithium-ion batteries, catalytic synthesis and application of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, ruthenium-based ammonia synthesis catalysts and their mechanisms, chiral metal complex catalysis of asymmetric hydrogenation reactions, chiral metal centers in nitrogenase and heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis, catalytic selective oxidation of methane to oxygen-containing compounds, the selective oxidation catalytic role of rhenium, catalytic combustion technology and its core catalysts, etc. The chapters in the book are independent yet interconnected and cross-reference each other. These discussions are expected to be of certain reference value for researchers engaged in physicochemical research, as well as for faculty and students in chemistry and chemical engineering-related disciplines at higher education institutions.