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A comprehensive understanding of interface phenomena is a prerequisite for continuing progress in catalysis research. In the last decades, impressive improvements in surface imaging and spectroscopy on the one hand and theoretic modelling capabilities on the other gave rise to an increasingly conclusive microscopic picture of adsorption, desorption, and surface reactions. This not only concerns the interfaces solid|vacuum and solid|gas, where improvements in instrumentation are usually introduced first, but also the solid|liquid interface, where most techniques are in principle applicable, too. Also the basic concepts of surface thermodynamics and kinetics, especially in a molecular picture, are generally used in similar ways for both interfaces. 

In view of all these similarities, however, it is surprising that scientific meetings in the communities of surface science and electrochemistry are still held largely separately. The goal of this symposium is to bring together top scientists from both communities for presentations of recent advances in their fields and discussions in a common language.

key issues

• nanostructured surfaces: fabrication and (electro)chemical properties
• structural effects in (electro)catalysis: from sub-nm to µm scale
• in situ observation of surface processes: imaging and spectroscopy
• solid|gas vs. solid|liquid interface: similarities and differences
• from isolated adsorbates to complex surface phases: limits of the molecular picture?
• quantitative links between theory and experiment

registration fees and abstract submission

Registration fee includes lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, dinner on Thursday and Friday, and all coffee breaks. Lodging is not included. 

Abstracts should be electronically submitted in English language via the contoo-account until Saturday, October 31. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. You are encouraged to illustrate your work by uploading one ore more pictures.

organization

This symposium is supported as Bunsen Colloquium by the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
and as topical workshop within the "Kompetenznetz Funktionelle Nanostrukturen" Baden-Württemberg

organizers:

Dr. Harry E. Hoster
Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Ulm University

Prof. Dr. Axel Gross
Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Ulm University

Prof. Dr. Olaf M. Magnussen
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel University

conference secretary:

Ralf T. Roetter
Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Ulm University

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