Chemistry 448 Surface Chemistry
Fall 1998
Still under construction! Dates are yet to be finalized. Homeworks and readings will be added freqeuently! Please check back between each class and hit reload on your browser!
Mondays and Wednesdays 440-555 PM, 104 Osmond
Prerequisites: Chemistry 451 and 452 or equivalents.
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Faculty
Professor David L. Allara
Office: 185 MRI Building
Phone: (814) 865-2254
E-mail: dla3@psu.edu
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Office Hours: By appointment
Send e-mail to Prof. Allara
Secretary: Sabrina Glasgow, 184 MRI Building, (814) 863-2619
Professor Paul S. Weiss
Office: 407 Davey Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-3693
E-mail: stm@psu.edu
Instant Messenger: PSWeiss
Office Hours: Thursday 1:30-2:30 PM and by appointment
Send e-mail to Prof. Weiss
Secretary: Connie Smith, 222 Davey Laboratory, (814) 863-0119
We also have excellent guest lecturers planned.
Learning in Chem 448
There is a tremendous amount to learn in this field and in this course. Several scientific communities include areas of surface chemistry, but speak largely in different languages. These fields include chemistry, physics, biology, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering. Our goal is to give you enough background (and language training) to understand current research in these areas through talks and papers. This will require a great deal of work on your part.
Anticipate that the lectures, the readings, and the homeworks will be complementary rather than overlapping. You will be responsible for the material from all of these sources. Similarly, your participation in class is required both for discussions and for the education of your classmates and professors. There is nothing that we plan to say that is so critical that a good classroom discussion would not be preferable.
This is a very dynamic subject with rapidly changing perspectives and many advances. You will learn about these by pointers to the current literature and by taking advantage of the many seminars in this field available at Penn State throughout the semester and beyond.
Recommended Textbooks
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis by Gabor A. Somorjai.
Wiley, New York, 1994. ISBN 0-471-03192-5
Supplementary Texts (optional):
Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, by A. Adamson & A. Gast, 6th Ed.
Wiley, 1997, ISBN-0-471-14873-3.
Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures by Roald Hoffmann.
VCH, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-89573-709-4.
Research in Prof. Allara's group.
Research in Prof. Weiss' group.
Chemistry on the Web.
The Elements.
Photography Information at Kodak.
Gabor A. Somorjai and M. Salmeron.
Lunch?
Class Topics and Readings
These topics and assignments are subject to change, and you should check back regularly. We will try to indicate changes for you.
Wednesday 26 August 1998 Class (Weiss)
Introduction to solids and surfaces
If this lecture was totally unfamiliar, have a look at the optional Hoffmann book, listed above.
Monday 31 August 1998 (Allara)
Introduction to solids and surfaces
Lecture notes.
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Index of the frames (in case your computer cannot handle the size of the above file).
Handout
Wednesday 2 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Crystal structures and defects
Lecture notes.
Index of the frames (in case your computer cannot handle the size of the above file).
Handout
Monday 7 September 1998 Class
Labor Day - no class.
Wednesday 9 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Crystal structures and defects
Lecture notes.
Index of the frames (in case your computer cannot handle the size of the above file).
Handout
Monday 14 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Structures: Surface and Superlattices
Lecture notes for this and the following lecture.
Somorjai Chapter 2
Wednesday 16 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Structures: Surface and Superlattices
Lecture notes for this and the previous lecture.
Somorjai Chapter 2
Monday 21 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Surface Thermodynamics
Lecture notes for this and the next two lectures.
Somorjai Chapter 2
Wednesday 23 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Surface Thermodynamics
Lecture notes for this, the previous and the following lectures.
Somorjai Chapter 3
Monday 28 September 1998 Class (Allara)
Surface Thermodynamics
Lecture notes for this and the previous two lectures.
Somorjai Chapter 3
Note to first year chemistry graduate students and interested others:
This evening at 630 PM in S5 Osmond Prof. Weiss will give a research presentation for first year grad students and interested others. This is part of a series of lectures by chemistry faculty describing research in our groups. Food and drinks will be provided.
If you are in the class and can attend, please do plan on it, even if you are not a first year grad student.
Wednesday 30 September 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Dynamics and Surface Probes
Somorjai Chapter 4
Monday 5 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Dynamics and Surface Probes
Somorjai Chapter 4
Wednesday 7 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Dynamics and Surface Probes
Somorjai Chapter 4
Modified Homework Due: 2-3 page report on a paper on surface dynamics, published after Somorjai's book. The paper can be found in Science, Nature, Surface Science, Langmuir, Physical Review Letters, or another journal approved by one of the instructors. Keep in mind the science/instrumental/clutter issue.
Describe the techniques used and experimental conditions in terms of the issues discussed in class: surface sensitivity, environment required, chemical specificity/sensitivity, energy range, energy resolution, structural information, bonding information, and lateral resolution.
Monday 12 October 1998 Class (Michael J. Natan)
Probing Real Surfaces
Please read:
R. L. Garrell, Analytical Chemistry 61, 410A (1989).
A. G. Frutos and R. M. Corn, Analytical Chemistry 70, 449A (1998).
These will be on reserve in the library.
Wednesday 14 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Analysis
Somorjai Chapter 5
Monday 19 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Exam
covering through Somorjai Chapter 4 and associated lectures
Main topics on the exam:
Atomic and molecular views of surfaces and solids.
Thermodynamic views of surfaces (know the three important equations we discussed).
Probes.
Expect an exam along the lines of our discussion questions and the open ended questions we ask in class. Know the fundamentals!
You may bring any hand-written notes you like to the exam.
Wednesday 21 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Scanning Probes, cont.
Somorjai Chapter 5
Monday 26 October 1998 Class (Weiss and Allara)
Surface Chemical Bonds and Exam Discussion
Somorjai Chapter 6
Wednesday 28 October 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Chemical Bonds and Reaction Mechanisms
Somorjai Chapter 6
Homework Due: 2-3 page report on a paper using scanning probe microscopy to learn something other than surface structure(s). The paper can be found in Science, Nature, Surface Science, Langmuir, Physical Review Letters, or another journal approved by one of the instructors. Keep in mind the science/instrumental/clutter issue.
Note Thursday's talks:
Thursday 29 October 1215 PM in S5 Osmond: Richard Keller
Chemistry Colloquium, from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bioanalytical Applications of Single Molecule Detection
Thursday 29 October 330 PM in 101 Osmond: Paul Weiss
Physics Colloquium
Electrons In, Around, and Through Molecules on Surfaces
Monday 2 November 1998 Class (Allara)
Surface Chemical Bonds
Somorjai Chapter 6
Wednesday 4 November 1998 Class (Allara)
Surface Chemical Bonds
Somorjai Chapter 6
Homework Due: 2-3 page report on a paper on a paper using one or more core level spectroscopies found in Science, Nature, Surface Science, Langmuir, Physical Review Letters, or another journal approved by one of the instructors. Keep in mind the science/instrumental/clutter issue.
Monday 9 November 1998 Class (Weiss)
Surface Chemical Bonds/Catalysis
Somorjai Chapter 7
Wednesday 11 November 1998 Class (Weiss)
Catalysis at Surfaces
Somorjai Chapter 7
Monday 16 November 1998 Class (Winograd)
Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
Homework Due: 2-3 page report on a paper on a surface chemistry paper found in Surface Science, Langmuir, Physical Review Letters, or another journal approved by one of the instructors. Keep in mind the science/instrumental/clutter issue.
Wednesday 18 November 1998 Class (Allara)
Long Range Forces and Colloids
Handout
Monday 23 November 1998 Class (Allara)
Long Range Forces and Colloids
Handout
Homework Due: 2-3 page report on a paper that is a key reference for your final paper.
Note that this homework has been moved up two days -- 11/6
Wednesday 25 November 1998
No class - Thanksgiving
Monday 30 November 1998 Class (Allara and Weiss)
Molecular Films and Surface Functionalization
Handout
Wednesday 2 December 1998 Class(Weiss)
Exam
covering through Long Range Forces and Colloids
Friday 4 December 1998
Paper due in lieu of a Final Exam, , 407 Davey. Note new time.
Monday 7 December 1998 Class (Weiss)
Go over Exam and Paper Topics. Special Topics and Discussion.
Wednesday 9 December 1998 Class (Allara and Weiss)
Go over Exam and Paper Topics, Evaluations, and What If?
Wrap-Up
Grading
1. Class participation: 10%
2. Short (2-3 pages max.) reviews of published research papers on current
lecture topics: 15%
~8 will be required during the semester
*Xerox copy of source article must be attached
This combines the original two sets of short papers.
3. Two exams (1 hr. each): 50% (25% each)
Note that pre-approved make-up or conflict exams will be oral exams.
4. One long paper reviewing the literature on an approved topic: 25%
*topic must involve course material
*10 pages typical with 10-20+ references
*graded on difficulty of material, clarity,
organization, critical/innovative input of
student, + related criteria
TOTAL: 100%
This version: 9 December 1998
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