Dynamic Chemical Processes on Solid Surfaces (eBook)

Ken-ichi Tanaka received his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After becoming an associate professor at Hokkaido Univerisity and then at The University of Tokyo, he was a professor at The University of Tokyo. He now is professor emeritus at the University and a guest professor in the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and honorary director at the Institute of Materials and Electrochemistry, the University of Science and Technology.Ken-ichi Tanaka has received the Academic Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, the Award of the Surface Science Society of Japan, and the Award of the Catalysis Society of Japan.He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Catalysis. 

Introduction.- Surface Structures and the Crystalhabit of Growing Particles.- Self-Assembled Array of Atoms and Molecules on Metals.- Formation of quasi-Compounds on Metals.- Reaction of quasi-Compounds on Metal Surfaces.- Formation of Labile Surface Compounds and Catalysis.- Overview of Catalysis.- Spatial Distribution of Molecules Desorbing with Surface Reaction.- Formation of Active Ordered Layer on Pt-Rh Catalyst.- Dynamic Chemical Processes in Catalysis.- Concluding Remarks.