Somorjai, Gabor A. - University of California, Berkeley

个人简介

Biography Born 1935 B.S. University of Technical Sciences, Budapest (1956) Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1960) Guggenheim Fellow (1969) Unilever Professor, University of Bristol (1972) Chairman, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the ACS (1975) Kokes Award, Johns Hopkins University (1976) Emmett Award of the American Catalysis Society (1977) Baker Lecturer, Cornell University (1977) Miller Professor, Berkeley (1978) Member, National Academy of Sciences (1979) Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society (1981) Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983) Henry Albert Palladium Medal (1986) Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (1989) Adamson Award in Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (1994) Van Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society (1997) Wolf Prize in chemistry (1998) Creative Research Award in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis of the American Chemical Society (2000) Linus Pauling Award (2000) National Medal of Science (2002) Honorary Doctorates: Technical University, Budapest (1989) Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1990) Université Libre de Bruxelles (1992) Honorary Doctorate, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2000) University of Manchester, United Kingdom (2001) ETH-Zürich, Switzerland (2003) Member, Hungarian Academy of Science (1992) Faculty Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, LBNL University Professor of the UC system (2002) Commencement Speaker, (2003) Honorary Fellow, Cardiff University, UK, (2006) Remsen Award from the Maryland Section of the ACS, (2006) Langmuir Prize from the American Physical Society (2007) Priestley Medal (2008) Senior Miller Fellow, Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley (2009) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Award (2009) Excellence in Surface Science from Surfaces in Biointerfaces Foundation (2009) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009) Honorary Membership, Chemical Society of Japan (2009) Docteur Honoris Causa, Northwestern University (2010) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (2011) ENI New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons Prize, (2011) National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, (2013) Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2015) William H. Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the ACS (2015)

研究领域

Professor Somorjai’s research interest is in the fields of surface science and catalysis. His group is studying the structure, bonding, and reactivity of solid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-solid interfaces on the molecular scale. This knowledge is then utilized to understand macroscopic surface phenomena, the rate and product selectivity in multipath catalytic reactions. Since most catalysts are nanoparticles, metal and oxide nanoparticles are synthesized using colloidal chemistry in the 1-10 nm range their catalytic activities are studied as it changes as a function of size and shape and composition. High surface area oxides supports are constructed that are mesoporous and the role of oxide-metal interfaces are studied in catalytic reactions. The molecular mechanisms of catalytic reactions are studied using instruments for nanoscale characterization of surfaces under reaction conditions. These include sum frequency generation surface vibrational spectroscopy (SFG), high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy (high pressure STM) and high-pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (high pressure XPS). Synchrotron based spectroscopy techniques (microspectroscopy, x-ray absorption techniques of NEXAFS, EXAFS) are also utilized to monitor surfaces under reaction conditions, small metal nanoparticles were found to heterogenize homogeneous solution phase catalytic reactions and studies of correlating heterogeneous and enzyme catalytic reactions are in progress. Professor Somorjai has educated a generation of leading scientists in the field. Out of more that 130 Ph.D. students and 220 postdoctoral fellows, approximately 110 hold faculty positions now.

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Surface Structures of Model Metal Catalysts in Reactant Gasses. Franklin (Feng) tao, Walter T. Ralston and Gabor A. Somorjai. J. Phys. Chem. B, 122, 425-431(2018). Fluoroethylene Carbonate as a Directing Agent in Amorphous Silicon Anodes –Electrolyte Interface Structure Probed by Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy and Ab-Inito Molecular Dynamics. Yonatan Horowitz, Hui-Ling Han, Fernando A. Soto, Walter T. Ralston, Perla B. Balbuena, and Gabor A. Somorjai. Nano Lett.18, 1145-1151 (2018) Development and Elucidation of Superior Turnover Rates and Selectivity of Supported Molecular Catalysts. Rong Ye, Whe-Chi Liu, Hui-Ling Han and Gabor A. Somorjai. ChemCatChem. 10, 1-21 (2018). Identifying the Decomposition of Diethyl Carbonate in Binary Electrolyte Solution in Contact with Silicon Anodes - A Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study. Yonatan Horowitz, Hui-Ling Han, and Gabor A. Somorjai. Ind. Eng. Res. 57, 1480-1486 (2018). Supported Iron Catalysts for Michael Addition Reaction. Rong Ye, Franco F.Faucher and Gabor A. Somorjai. Molecular Catalysis 447 65-71 (2018) Fluoroethylene Carbonate Induces Ordered Electrolyte Interface on Silicon And Sapphire Surfaces as Revealed by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy and X-ray Reflectivity. Yonatan Horowitz, Hans-Georg Steinrück, Hui-Ling Han, Chuntian Cao, Iwnetim Iwnetu Abate, Yuchi Tsao, Michael F. Toney and Gabor A. Somorjai. Nano Lett. 18, 2105-2111 (2018). Catalytic 1-Propanol Oxidation on Size-Controlled Platinum Nanoparticles at Solid-Gas and Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Significant Differences in Kinetics and Mechanisms. Fudong Liu, Hui-Ling Han, Lindsay M. Carl, Danylo Zherebetskyy,Kwangjin An, Lin-Wang Wang and Gabor A. Somorjai. J. Phys. Chem. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00405 the Effect of Aluminum and Platinum Additives on Hydrogen Adsorption on Mesoporous Silicates. Gerome Melaet, Vitalie Stavila, Lennie Klebanoff and Gabor A. Somorjai. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 12075-12083 (2018) Foundations and Strategies of the Construction of Hybrid Catalysts for Optimized Performances and New Products. Rong Ye, Jie Zhao, Brent B. Wickemeyer, F. Dean Toste and Gabor A. Somorjai. Nature Catalysis 1, 318-325 (2018) Specific Metal-Support Interactions between Nanoparticle Layers for Catalysts With Enhanced Methanol Oxidation Activity. Sinmyung Yoon, Kyunghwan Oh,Fudong Liu, Ji Hui Seo, Gabor A. Somorjai, Jun Hee Lee, Kwangjin An. ACS Catal. 8, 5391-5398 (2018) Acidic Effect of Porous Alumina as Supports for Pt Nanoparticle Catalysts in n-Hexane Reforming. Euiseop Yang, Eun Jeong Jang, Jun Gyeong Lee, Lee Sinmyung, Jaekyoung Lee, Nathan Musselwhite, Gabor A. Somorjai, Ja Hun Kwak, Kwangjin An. Catal. Sci. Technol., 8, 3295-3303 (2018). Surface Science Approach to the Molecular Level Integration of the Principles in Heterogeneous, Homogeneous, and Enzymatic Catalysis. Tyler J. Hurlburt, Wen-Chi Liu, Rong Ye and Gabor A. Somorjai. Topics in Catalysis Structure of Copper-Cobalt Surface Alloys in Equilibrium with Carbon Monoxide Gas. Baran Eren, Daniel Torres, Osman Karslıoğlu, Zongyuan Liu, Cheng Hao Wu, Dario Stacchiola, Hendrik Bluhm, Gabor Somorjai, Miquel Salmeron. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 6575-6581 (2018). Supported Au Nanoparticles with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands a Active and Stable Heterogeneous Catalysts of Lactonization. Rong Ye, Alexandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, Roman Kazantsev, Sirine C. Fakra, Brent Wickemeyer, Dean F. toste, Gabor A. Somorjai. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, (4144-4149 (2018) the Methanol Economy: Methane and Carbon Dioxide Conversion. Wen-Chi Liu, Jayeon Baek and Gabor A. Somorjai. Topics in Catalysis 6, 530-541 (2018) Molecular Orientations Change Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism: A review on Catalytic Alcohol Oxidation in Gas Phase and Liquid Phase on Size-Controlled Pt Nanoparticles. Fudong Liu, Haliang Wang, Andras Sapi, Hironori Tatsumi, Danylo Zherebetskyy, Hui-Ling Han, Lindsay M. Carl and Gabor A. Somorjai. Catalyst, 8(6), 226 (2018). A Review on in situ Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies Of Liquid-Solid Interfaces in Electrochemical Systems. Hui-Ling Han, Yonatan Horowitz and Gabor A. Somorjai. Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry. Surface Science and Electrochemistry. Pages 1-12 (2018) Identification of the Bronsted Acid Catalytic Site in Sulfated MOF-808. Christopher A. Trickett, Thomas M. Osborn Popp,Ji Su,1,2 Chang Yan,Jonathan Weisberg,Ashfia Huq,Philipp Urban, Juncong Jiang, Markus J. Kalmutzki, Qingni Liu, Jayeon Baek, Martin P. Head-Gordon, Gabor A. Somorjai,1 Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Omar M. Yaghi. Nature Chem., 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0171-z Bioinspired Metal-Organic Framework Catalysts for Selective Methane Oxidation to Methanol. Jayeon Baek, Bunyarat Rungtaweevoranit, Xiaokun Pei, Myeongkee Park, Sirine C. Fakra, Yi-Sheng Liu, Roc Matheu Montserrat, Sultan A. Alshmimri, Saeed Alshehri, Christopher A. Trickett, Gabor A. Somorjai and Omar M. Yaghi. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 18208-18216 (2018).