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  • 1996 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the development of scanning probe methods and theoretical models for surface science, and for novel dynamics of surface processes

Overview

Miquel Salmeron is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, with a strong focus on the subfields of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. Additional specialized areas of study include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Radiation, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work emphasizes catalytic processes in materials science and involves detailed investigations of catalysis and oxidation reactions. Their research interests also cover electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, nuclear physics and applications, nuclear reactor physics and engineering, and radiation detection and scintillator technologies.

Salmeron has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators including Ji Yang, Juan Zheng, Chaochao Dun, Lorenz J. Falling, and Qi Zheng.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Unveiling Highly Sensitive Active Site in Atomically Dispersed Gold Catalysts for Enhanced Ethanol Dehydrogenation, 2024, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Unveiling Highly Sensitive Active Site in Atomically Dispersed Gold Catalysts for Enhanced Ethanol Dehydrogenation, 2024, Angewandte Chemie
  • Replication Data for: Hydrogen migration at restructuring palladium-silver oxide boundaries dramatically enhances reduction rate of silver oxide, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Trapping on Single Gold Metal Nanoparticles on TiO2, 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Direct Observation of Morphological and Chemical Changes During the Oxidation of Model Inorganic Ligand-Capped Particles, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent publication venues for Salmeron include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Throughout their career, Salmeron has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1996. This recognition was cited for contributions to the development of scanning probe methods and theoretical models for surface science, alongside novel dynamics of surface processes.

Best Publications

  • Scratching the Surface: Fundamental Investigations of Tribology with Atomic Force Microscopy.

    Robert W. Carpick;Miquel Salmeron

  • Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

    Feng Tao;Feng Tao;Michael E. Grass;Michael E. Grass;Yawen Zhang;Yawen Zhang;Yawen Zhang;Derek R. Butcher;Derek R. Butcher

  • Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy: A new tool for surface science and nanotechnology

    Miquel Salmeron;Robert Schlögl

  • Electron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solution Interfaces Reveals Surface Enhancement of Halides

    Sutapa Ghosal;John C. Hemminger;Hendrik Bluhm;Bongjin Simon Mun

  • Molecular structure of water at interfaces: wetting at the nanometer scale.

    A Verdaguer;G M Sacha;H Bluhm;M Salmeron

  • A differentially pumped electrostatic lens system for photoemission studies in the millibar range

    D. Frank Ogletree;Hendrik Bluhm;Gennadi Lebedev;Charles S. Fadley

  • Imaging the Condensation and Evaporation of Molecularly Thin Films of Water with Nanometer Resolution

    J. Hu;X. D. Xiao;D. F. Ogletree;M. Salmeron

  • The structure of interfacial water on gold electrodes studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Juan-Jesus Velasco-Velez;Cheng Hao Wu;Tod A. Pascal;Liwen F. Wan

  • Hydroxylation of the surface of PbS nanocrystals passivated with oleic acid

    Danylo Zherebetskyy;Marcus Scheele;Yingjie Zhang;Noah Bronstein

  • Break-Up of Stepped Platinum Catalyst Surfaces by High CO Coverage

    Feng Tao;Feng Tao;Sefa Dag;Lin-Wang Wang;Zhi Liu

  • Chain length dependence of the frictional properties of alkylsilane molecules self-assembled on mica studied by atomic force microscopy

    Xudong Xiao;Jun Hu;Deborah H. Charych;Miquel Salmeron

  • Superlubric Sliding of Graphene Nanoflakes on Graphene

    Xiaofeng Feng;Sangku Kwon;Jeong Young Park;Miquel Salmeron;Miquel Salmeron

  • The Nature of Water Nucleation Sites on TiO2(110) Surfaces Revealed by Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

    Guido Ketteler;Susumu Yamamoto;Hendrik Bluhm;Klas Andersson

  • Icelike Water Monolayer Adsorbed on Mica at Room Temperature

    P. B. Miranda;Lei Xu;Y. R. Shen;Miquel Salmeron

  • In Situ Studies of Chemistry and Structure of Materials in Reactive Environments

    Franklin Feng Tao;Miquel Salmeron

  • Water diffusion and clustering on Pd(111).

    T. Mitsui;M. K. Rose;E. Fomin;D. F. Ogletree

  • Dissociative hydrogen adsorption on palladium requires aggregates of three or more vacancies

    T. Mitsui;M. K. Rose;M. K. Rose;E. Fomin;E. Fomin;D. F. Ogletree

  • In-situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of water on metals and oxides at ambient conditions

    S. Yamamoto;H. Bluhm;K. Andersson;K. Andersson;Guido Ketteler

  • Desorption, decomposition, and deuterium exchange reactions of unsaturated hydrocarbons (ethylene, acetylene, propylene, and butenes) on the platinum(111) crystal face

    M. Salmeron;G. A. Somorjai

  • Domain wall conductivity in La-doped BiFeO3

    Jan Seidel;Jan Seidel;Petro Maksymovych;Y Batra;A Katan

  • COMPARATIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY STUDY OF THE CHAIN LENGTH DEPENDENCE OF FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES OF ALKANETHIOLS ON GOLD AND ALKYLSILANES ON MICA

    A. Lio;D. H. Charych;M. Salmeron

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Hendrik Bluhm
Hendrik Bluhm Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jinghua Guo
Jinghua Guo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anders Nilsson
Anders Nilsson Stockholm University
Alexis T. Bell
Alexis T. Bell University of California, Berkeley
Zhi Liu
Zhi Liu ShanghaiTech University
Lin-Wang Wang
Lin-Wang Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet University of California, Berkeley

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