Steven Tait:
Status:PhD Awarded June 2005
Thesis: 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)
Current: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute
for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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)
Dr. Steven Tait
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Nanoscale Science Department Heisenbergstr. 1
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: T+49 711 689 1730
Email: S.Tait@fkf.mpg.de
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Publications:
- 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. (in press).
- 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. (submitted).
- 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. (submitted).
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