Steven Tait

Research: Desorption Kinetics of Small n-Alkanes from MgO(100), Pt(111), and C(0001)/Pt(111) and Studies of Pd Nanoparticles: Growth and Sintering on Al2O3(0001) and Methane Dissociation on MgO(100)

Work While at UW:

• Sintering Kinetics of Palladium Nanoparticles on Alumina (co-advised by Prof. Sam Fain, Physics)
• Alkane Adsorption on MgO(100) and on Pd Nanoparticles on MgO for Nanocatalysis (co-advised by Zdenek Dohnalek and Bruce Kay, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Publications

1. Growth and Sintering of Pd Clusters on -Al2O3(0001), by L. T. Ngo, S. L. Tait, Q. Yu, S. C. Fain, Jr., and C. T. Campbell, J. Chem. Phys. 122, art. 064712, 2005.
2. n-Alkanes on MgO(100): I. Coverage-dependent Desorption Kinetics of n-Butane, S. L. Tait, Z. Dohnálek, C. T. Campbell, B. D. Kay, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 164707, 2005 (9 pages).
3. n-Alkanes on MgO(100): II. Chain Length-dependence of Kinetic Desorption Parameters for Small n-Alkanes, S. L. Tait, Z. Dohnálek, C. T. Campbell, B. D. Kay, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 164708, 2005 (13 pages).
4. Methane adsorption and dissociation and oxygen adsorption and reaction with CO on Pd nanoparticles on MgO(100) and on Pd(111), S. L. Tait, Z. Dohnálek, C. T. Campbell, B. D. Kay, Surface Sci. 591, 90-107, 2005.
5. Simulated measurement of small metal clusters by frequency modulation non-contact atomic force microscopy (ncAFM), S C Fain, Jr., C A Polwarth, S. L. Tait, C T Campbell, and R H French, Nanotechnology 17, S121-127 (2006).
6. n-Alkanes on Pt(111) and on C(0001) / Pt(111): Chain Length-dependence of Kinetic Desorption Parameters, S. L. Tait, Z. Dohnálek, C. T. Campbell, B. D. Kay, J. Chem. Phys. 125, Art. No. 234308, 15 pages (2006).