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Overview

Bruce D. Kay is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and catalysis. The work spans topics related to material dynamics and properties, catalytic processes, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, as well as catalytic and oxidation reactions. Further research interest includes nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions and thermodynamic properties of mixtures.

Kay has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, publishing in a range of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Surface Science
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Kay illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Reversible structural transformations in supercooled liquid water from 135 to 245 K, 2020, Science
  • Structural relaxation and crystallization in supercooled water from 170 to 260 K, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structure and Desorption Kinetics of Acetonitrile Thin Films on Pt(111) and on Graphene on Pt(111), 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Adsorption and reaction of methanol on Fe3O4(001), 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Morphology of Vapor-Deposited Acetonitrile Films, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Greg A. Kimmel
  • R. Scott Smith
  • Zdenek Dohnálek
  • Loni Kringle
  • Marcus A. Sharp

Research by Kay covers diverse subfields such as materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, catalysis, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and atmospheric science. These fields align with their research topics that focus on catalytic processes in materials science, catalytic and hydrodesulfurization studies, and thermodynamic properties of mixtures.

Best Publications

  • Sol-gel transition in simple silicates II☆

    C.J. Brinker;K.D. Keefer;D.W. Schaefer;R.A. Assink

  • Nanoscaffold Mediates Hydrogen Release and the Reactivity of Ammonia Borane

    Anna Gutowska;Liyu Li;Yongsoon Shin;Chong M. Wang

  • Role of water in electron-initiated processes and radical chemistry: issues and scientific advances.

    Bruce C Garrett;David A Dixon;Donald M Camaioni;Daniel M Chipman

  • The existence of supercooled liquid water at 150?K

    R. Scott Smith;Bruce D. Kay

  • Controlling the morphology of amorphous solid water

    Kip P. Stevenson;Gregory A. Kimmel;Zdenek Dohnalek;R. Scott Smith

  • Kinetics of the activated dissociative adsorption of methane on the low index planes of nickel single crystal surfaces

    Thomas P. Beebe;D. Wayne Goodman;Bruce D. Kay;John T. Yates

  • Sol-gel kinetics I. Functional group kinetics☆

    Roger A. Assink;Bruce D. Kay

  • Control of amorphous solid water morphology using molecular beams. I. Experimental results

    Gregory A. Kimmel;Kip P. Stevenson;Zdenek Dohnalek;R. Scott Smith

  • The evaporation rate, free energy, and entropy of amorphous water at 150 K

    Robin J. Speedy;Pablo G. Debenedetti;R. Scott Smith;C. Huang

  • The Molecular Volcano: Abrupt CC l 4 Desorption Driven by the Crystallization of Amorphous Solid Water

    R. Scott Smith;C. Huang;E. K. L. Wong;Bruce D. Kay

  • H2O Condensation Coefficient and Refractive Index for Vapor-Deposited Ice from Molecular Beam and Optical Interference Measurements

    D. E. Brown and;S. M. George;C. Huang;E. K. L. Wong

  • Imaging water dissociation on TiO2(110): Evidence for inequivalent geminate OH groups.

    Zhenrong Zhang;Olexsandr Bondarchuk;Bruce D. Kay;J. M. White

  • Desorption and crystallization kinetics in nanoscale thin films of amorphous water ice

    R. Scott Smith;C. Huang;E.K.L. Wong;Bruce D. Kay

  • Imaging Adsorbate O−H Bond Cleavage: Methanol on TiO2(110)

    Zhenrong Zhang;Oleksandr Bondarchuk;J. M. White;Bruce D. Kay

  • Crystalline ice growth on PT(111): observation of a hydrophobic water monolayer.

    Greg A. Kimmel;Nikolay G. Petrik;Zdenek Dohnálek;Bruce D. Kay

  • No confinement needed: observation of a metastable hydrophobic wetting two-layer ice on graphene.

    Gregory A. Kimmel;Jesper Matthiesen;Marcel Baer;Christopher J. Mundy

  • The deposition angle-dependent density of amorphous solid water films

    Zdenek Dohnalek;Greg A. Kimmel;Patrick Ayotte;R. Scott Smith

  • Physisorption of N2, O2, and CO on fully oxidized TiO2(110).

    Zdenek Dohnalek;Jooho Kim;Oleksandr Bondarchuk;J. Mike White

  • n-alkanes on Pt(111) and on C(0001)Pt(111): chain length dependence of kinetic desorption parameters.

    Steven L. Tait;Zdenek Dohnálek;Charles T. Campbell;Bruce D. Kay

  • The adsorption and desorption of water on single crystal MgO(100): The role of surface defects

    M. J. Stirniman;C. Huang;R. Scott Smith;S. A. Joyce

Frequent Co-Authors

Zdenek Dohnalek
Zdenek Dohnalek Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Roger Rousseau
Roger Rousseau Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. M. White
J. M. White The University of Texas at Austin
Roger A. Assink
Roger A. Assink Sandia National Laboratories
David A. Dixon
David A. Dixon University of Alabama
Charles H. F. Peden
Charles H. F. Peden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Charles T. Campbell
Charles T. Campbell University of Washington
Maciej Gutowski
Maciej Gutowski Heriot-Watt University
Qingfeng Ge
Qingfeng Ge Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou
Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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