The final conference agenda is below. A downloadable version is also available.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
| Time | Description |
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| 4-6 pm | Registration (Guest House) |
| 4-6 pm | Reception (Guest House) |
Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 7:00-7:45am | Buses from the Guest House to the conference building ESB-241 |
Session ISession Chair: Richard Palmer |
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| 8:00 am | Conference opening & Safety Talk given by James Young |
| 8:05 am | Paul Kearns Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations & Chief Operations Officer Argonne National Laboratory Welcome |
| 8:20 am | Ib Chorkendorff – Invited lecture IL01 Technical University of Denmark Mass-selected Nanoparticle for Heterogeneous and Electro-Catalysis |
| 8:45 am | Larry Curtiss – Invited lecture IL02 Argonne National Laboratory, USA Subnanometer Metal Clusters as Electrocatalysts in Li-O2 Batteries |
| 9:10 am | Fatih Sen – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT1 Argonne National Laboratory, USA Optimizing IrO2 Nanoclusters for Oxygen Evolution |
| 9:25 am | Peter Lievens – Invited lecture IL03 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Clusters on Few Monolayers NaCl on Au(111) |
| 9:50 am | Gunther Andersson – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT02 Flinders University, Australia Size and Distribution of Au clusters on Titania Surfaces Adsorbed from Solutions |
| 10:05 – 10:25 am | Coffee break |
Session IISession Chair: Wolfgang Harbich |
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| 10:25 am | Alessandro Fortunelli – Invited lecture IL04 CNR-ICCOM Pisa, Italy Quantum Simulations of Metal Ultrananocatalysts |
| 10:50 am | Roy Johnston – Invited lecture IL05 University of Birmingham, UK Interactions of Nanoalloys with Oxide Supports and Adsorbates |
| 11:15 am | Jaakko Akkola Invited-Hot-topic IHT2 Tampere University of Technology, Finland CO Oxidation on AuCu Clusters: Role of Vacancies in MgO(100) Support |
| 11:30 am | Scott Anderson – Invited lecture IL06 University of Utah, USA XANES Interpretation and Strategies for Stabilizing Subnanometer Supported Clusters |
| 11:55 am | Sungsik Lee – Invited hot topic talk IHT3 Argonne National Laboratory, USA In-situ Real Time Monitoring of Sintering Resistant Catalysts Achieved by Surface Modifications |
| 12:10 pm | Elisa Jimenez – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT03 University of California Los Angeles, USA Can we Design Highly Stable Metallic Nanoclusters for their Use in Heterogeneous Catalysis? |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch & presentations by sponsors |
Session IIISession Chair: Peter Lievens |
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| 1:30 pm | Armin Kleibert – Invited lecture IL07 Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland Cluster-surface Interactions on Large Nanoparticles under Soft-landing Conditions |
| 1:55 pm | Veronique Dupuis – Invited lecture IL08 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, France Finite Size Effect on Structure and Magnetism of Mass-selected FeCo Clusters Embedded in Carbon Matrix |
| 2:20 pm | Fengqi Song – Invited hot topic talk IHT4 Nanjing University, China Sizeable Kane-Mele like Spin Orbit Coupling in the Iridium Clusters Decorated Graphene |
| 2:35 pm | Paolo Milani – Invited lecture IL09 Università di Milano, Milano, Italy Resistive Switching in Cluster-Assembled Nanostructured Gold Films |
| 3:00 pm | Fernando Buendia – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT04 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán Ciudad de México, México AuRh Clusters in Gas Phase and Deposited on (100) MgO |
| 3:15 pm | Eric Baxter – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT05 University of Utah, USA Size-Selected Model Catalysts for the Study of Mechanisms Involved in Endothermic Fuel Cooling |
Session IV – PostersSession Chair: Avik Halder |
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| 3:30 – 5:30 pm | *Poster session with coffee |
| 5:30-6:30 pm | Buses from the conference building ESB-241 to the Guest House |
Evening |
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| Free evening. Information about local options and transportation will be provided on site. | |
Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 7:00-7:45am | Buses from the Guest House to the conference building ESB-241 |
Session VSession Chair: Atsushi Nakajima |
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| 8:00 am | Julia Laskin – Invited lecture IL10 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Soft-Landing of Mass-Selected Cluster Ions for Studies in Catalysis and Energy Storage |
| 8:25 am | Hannu Häkkinen – Invited lecture IL11 University of Jyväskylä, Finland Active Gold on Active Oxides |
| 8:50 am | Bing Yang – Invited hot topic talk IHT4 Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ultra-small Clusters in Catalysis: Atomic Precision in Size/Composition Control |
| 9:05 am | Wolfgang Harbich – Invited lecture IL12 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Morphology, Stability and Reactivity of Small Mass Selected Metal Clusters on Hexagonal(h)-BN/Rh(111) |
| 9:30 am | Yoshihide Watanabe – Invited lecture IL13 Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan Cluster-surface Interaction Facilitates Reaction |
| 9:55 am | Avik Halder – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT06 Argonne National Laboratory, USA Efficient Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol and Methane over Supported Copper Clusters at Low Pressures |
| 10:10 – 10:40 am | Coffee break |
Session VISession Chair: Paolo Milani |
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| 10:40 am | Gerd Ganteför – Invited lecture IL14 Universität Konstanz, Germany New Materials Synthesized from Size-Selected Bare Metal Clusters |
| 11:05 am | Shiv Khanna – Invited lecture IL15 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Role of Support in Reducing Sintering, Improving catalytic activity, and Stabilizing Magnetic order in deposited Clusters |
| 11:30 am | Yasushi Iwata – Invited hot topic talk IHT5 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan Three-dimentional Surfaces Specific to The Silicon Cluster Superlattice, Synthesized with Direct Deposition of Monodisperse Silicon Clusters |
| 11:45 am | Atsushi Nakajima – Invited lecture IL16 Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan Monodispersed Immobilization and Island Fomation of M@Si16 Superatom |
| 12:10 pm | Stefanie Roese – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT07 Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Temperature Dependent Stabilization of Ag Clusters in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch & presentations by sponsors |
Session VIISession Chair: Alessandro Fortunelli |
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| 1:30 pm | Nisha Mammen – Invited hot topic talk IHT6 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. Diffusion and Sintering of Pt Clusters Deposited on MgO(001) Surfaces |
| 1:45 pm | William Kaden – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT08 University of Central Florida, USA Role of Hydroxyls in Pd Cluster Nucleation and Stabilization over SiO2 Thin-film Model Supports |
| 2:00 pm | Richard Palmer – Invited lecture IL17 University of Birmingham, UK Fulfilling Feynman’s Vision: Arranging the Atoms in Size-Selected Clusters and a Route to Manufacturing |
| 2:25 pm | Gianfranco Pacchioni – Invited lecture IL18 Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy Interaction of Metal Atoms and Clusters with Insulating Surfaces: Charge Transfer, Diffusion, Incorporation |
| 2:50 pm | Steven Buratto – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT09 University of California Santa Barbara, USA The Reactivity and Structure of Size Selected VxOy Clusters on TiO2 (110) |
| 3:05 pm | Michael White – Invited lecture IL19 Stony Brook University & Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA Interfacial Charge Transfer and Reactivity of Supported Metal Oxide Nanoclusters |
| 3:45-4:30 pm | Buses from the conference building ESB-241 to the Guest House |
| 5:45 pm (SHARP) | Bus leaves from the Guest House to the Conference Dinner |
Session VIII |
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| 6:30 pm | Conference Dinner |
Friday, June 3rd, 2016
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 7:00-7:45am | Buses from the Guest House to the conference building ESB-241 |
Session IXSession Chair: Gerd Ganteför |
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| 8:00am | Riccardo Ferrando – Invited lecture IL20 University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Stress-driven symmetry breaking in free and supported nanoalloys |
| 8:25 am | Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT10 TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Are the Surfaces of Size Selected 3d Metal Clusters Nitrophilic or Nitrophobic? |
| 8:40 am | Ingo Barke – Invited lecture IL21 Universität Rostock, Germany Metal Clusters on Silicon: From Chemical Activation Energies to Plasmonic Electron Emission |
| 9:05 am | Mihai Vaida – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT11 University of California Berkeley, USA Monitoring the Ultrafast Charge Migration, Trapping, and Recombination at Clusters Supported on Surfaces with Femtosecond Extreme-ultraviolet Laser Pulses |
| 9:20 am | Vladimir Popok – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT12 Aalborg University, Denmark Immersion of Soft-landed Metal Clusters into Polymers: What the Driving Force is and How to Control it. |
| 9:35 am | Heinz Hövel – Invited hot topic talk IHT7 Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Clusters in Different Surroundings: From ‘Quasi Free’ Clusters on Surfaces to Clusters Collected in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids |
| 9:50 am | Kit Bowen – Invited lecture IL22 Johns Hopkins University, USA Adsorption and Decomposition of Dimethyl Methylphosphonate (DMMP) on Size-Selected Metal/Metal Oxide Clusters |
| 10:15 – 10:40 am | Coffee break |
Session XSession Chair: Michael White |
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| 10:40 am | Shobhana Narasimhan – Invited lecture IL23 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India Size-dependent Oxidation and Reduction of Cu clusters |
| 11:05 am | Peter Zapol – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT13 Argonne National Laboratory, USA Size-Selective Reactivity of Ag4 vs Ag16 on TiO2 Surface |
| 11:20 am | Hisato Yasumatsu – Invited lecture IL24 Toyota Technological Institute, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., Ichikawa, Japan Molecular Understanding in Reaction Kinetics of Low-Temperature and Anti-Poisoning CO Oxidation Catalyzed by Uni-Sized Pt Clusters Directly Bound to Si Substrate Surface |
| 11:45 am | Stefan Vajda – Invited lecture IL25 Argonne National Laboratory Size Selected Cobalt Clusters in Fischer-Tropsch Reaction |
| 12:10 pm | Waiz Karim – Hot topic from submitted abstracts HT14 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hydrogen Spillover Visualized with X-PEEM and Nanofabricated Model system |
| 12:30 pm | Concluding Remarks & Adjourn |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch & discussions |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Buses from the conference building ESB-241 to the Guest House |
*Posters will be on display during the entire duration of the meeting in a joint area with the booths of sponsors and exhibitors.
** Conference dinner on Thursday.
*** Shuttle buses will be provided between the Guest House and the conference events. The buses will operate mornings between 7:00 am and 7:45 am and also after the closing each day.
