个人简介

B.S., 1979, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela Ph.D., 1984, University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow, 1984-86, Brookhaven National Laboratory Awards 2009 Elected American Chemical Society Fellow 2008 ACS Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry 2005 Elected American Vacuum Society Fellow 2004 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientist 2003 North American Catalysis Society Paul H. Emmett Award 2001 ACS George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry 2001 Elected American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow 1994 and 1995 Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Program Award 1993 Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Visiting Professorship Senior Editor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry (2007-present) Editor, The Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (1998-2007) Editorial Board Member: Journal of Moldecular Catalysis (2007-present), Topics in Catalysis (2004-present), Catalysis Letters (2004-present), Langmuir (1997-1998) Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect, Chair, Colloids and Surface Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (2005-2007) Treasurer, Colloids and Surface Chemistry Division, ACS (1997, 1998) President and Secretary-Treasurer, California Catalysis Society (1990-1992)

研究领域

Analytical Chemistry/Environmental Chemistry/Materials Chemistry/Physical Chemistry

The overall goal of our research is to understand the mechanism of surface reactions at the molecular level. Our studies are directed towards the characterization of key stable and unstable moieties relevant to heterogeneous catalysis, chemical vapor deposition, and other materials processes. We use a large combination of surface-sensitive techniques, including thermal programmed desorption (TPD), infrared (IR), X-ray photoelectron (XPS), statis secondary ion mass (SSIMS), ion scattering (ISS), low energy electron diffraction (LEED) and Auger electron (AES) spectroscopies in conjunction with molecular beams and high pressure cells, and other spectroscopies. One of our main projects focuses on the surface reactions of hydrocarbon species involved in catalytic reforming and in oxidation processes. We aim to understand the thermodynamic and kinetic forces responsible for the activity and selectivity of conversion reactions involving small hydrocarbons on metal and oxide surfaces. We have recently embarked in the study of ways to impart chirality to surfaces in order to promote enantioselectivity to heterogeneous catalytic processes. We also work on a number of other catalytic problems, including the catalytic conversion of NO, CO, and other poisonous gases responsible for air pollution. A second program is directed toward issues associated with materials chemistry. We are studying the mechanisms of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes, in particular the newer atomic layer deposition (ALD) approach, focusing on the kinetics of the elementary decomposition steps of the molecules used as precursors as well as on the morphology of the resulting films.

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Junghyun Hong, Ilkeun Lee, Francisco Zaera, Correlated Bifunctionality in Heterogeneous Catalysts: Selective Tethering of Cinchonidine Next to Supported Pt Nanoparticles, Catal. Sci. Technol., 5, 680-689 (2015). INVITED, Specialthemed issue focusing on Catalysis on Chiral Surfaces. Prashant V. Kamat, Benedetta Mennucci, Oleg Prezhdo, Gregory Scholes, Francisco Zaera, Timothy Zwier, George C. Schatz, A Prolific First Five Years (Editorial), J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6(1), 180–182 (2015). Andrew J. Gellman, Wilfred T. Tysoe, and Francisco Zaera, Surface Chemistry for Enantioselective Catalysis, Catal. Lett., 145(1), 220-232 (2015). INVITED, Special Issue, Silver Anniversary. Lei Guo, Francisco Zaera, Spatial Resolution in Thin Film Deposition on Silicon Surfaces by Combining Silylation and UV/Ozonolysis, Nanotechnol., 25, 504006/1-504006/10 (2014). INVITED, Special Issue: ‘Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) in Energy, Environment, and Sustainability’ Xiwang Ji, Xiaoyu Niu, Bo Li, Qing Han, Fulong Yuan, Fancisco Zaera, Yujun Zhu, Honggang Fu, Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde to Cinnamal Alcohol over Pt/Graphene Catalysts, ChemCatChem, 6(12), 3246-3253 (2014). Francisco Zaera, New Advances in Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy for the Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions, Chem. Soc. Rev., 43(22), 7624 - 7663 (2014). INVITED, "Catalysis for Production of Renewable Energy" Special Issue Menno Bouman, Xiangdong Qin, Vananh Doan, Benjamin L. D. Groven, and Francisco Zaera, Reaction of Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl on Silicon Oxide Surfaces: Implications for Thin Film Atomic Layer Depositions, Organometallics, 33(19), 5308–5315 (2014). Qiang Ma and Francisco Zaera, Thermal Chemistry of the Cu-KI5 ALD Precursor on a Copper Surface, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 33(1), 01A108/1-01A108/9 (2015). SPECIAL ISSUE: Atomic Layer Deposition. Alexander D. Gordon, Stavros Karakalos, and Francisco Zaera, Dependence of the Adsorption of Chiral Compounds on their Enantiomeric Composition, Surf. Sci., 629, 3-10 (2014). INVITED, Topical Special Issue of Surface Science on "Chirality at Surfaces". Ilkeun Lee and Francisco Zaera, Catalytic Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide at Cryogenic Temperatures, J. Catal, 319, 155–162 (2014). Kamat, Prashant V.; Prezhdo, Oleg; Shea, Joan-Emma; Scholes, Gregory; Zaera, Francisco; Zwier, Timothy; Schatz, George, Why Did you Accept my Paper? (Editorial), J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5, 2443−2443 (2014). EDITORIAL Ji Bong Joo, Robert Dillon, Ilkeun Lee, Yadong Yin, Christopher J. Bardeen and Francisco Zaera, Promoter of H Recombination as an Alternative Mechanism to Electron Trap for the Role of Metals in the Photocatalytic Production of H2, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 111(22), 7942-7947 (2014). Maryam Ebrahimi, Juan Pablo Simonovis, Francisco Zaera, Near-Unity Reaction Probability in Olefin Hydrogenation Promoted by Heterogeneous Metal Catalysts, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5, 2121-2125 (2014). Wei Wang, Shirui Guo, Ilkeun Lee, Kazi Ahmed, Jiebin Zhong, Zachary Favors, Francisco Zaera, Mihrimah Ozkan and Cengiz S. Ozkan, Hydrous Ruthenium Oxide Nanoparticles Anchored to Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Foam for Supercapacitors, Sci. Rep., 4, 4452/1-4452/9 (2014). Xiangdong Qin and Francisco Zaera, Oxidizing versus Reducing Co-reactants in Manganese Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) on Silicon Oxide Surfaces, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol., 3(5) Q89-Q94 (2014). Z. Ma and F. Zaera, Heterogeneous Catalysis by Metals, in Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, R. A. Scott, editor, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, eibc0089 (16 pp.) (2014). INVITED Yujun Zhu and Francisco Zaera, Selectivity in the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde Promoted by Pt/SiO2 as a Function of Metal Nanoparticle Size, Catal. Sci. Technol., 4(4), 955-962 (2014). Prashant Kamat, Gregory Scholes, Oleg Prezhdo, Francisco Zaera, Timothy Zwier, George Schatz, Overcoming the Myths of the Review Process and Getting Your Paper Ready for Publication (Editorial), J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5(8), 896-899 (2014). EDITORIAL Zhihuan Weng and Francisco Zaera, Increase in Both Activity and Selectivity in Catalysis via Surface Modification with Self-Assembled Monolayers, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118(7), 3672-3679 (2014). Trent L. Silbaugh, Javier B. Giorgi, Ye Xu, Aashani Tillekaratne, Francisco Zaera, and Charles T. Campbell, Adsorption energy of tert-butyl on Pt(111) by dissociation of tert-butyl iodide: Calorimetry and DFT, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118(1), 427-438 (2014).