Events

Seminar of the Institute of Experimental Physics of University of Wrocław

Surfaces and Interfaces: Fundamental Importance and Understanding

Prof. dr h.c. Klaus Wandelt

Instytut Fizyki Doświadczalnej Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego oraz Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Bonn, Niemcy

Surfaces and Interfaces are ubiquitous and the loci of gradients. As such they are the origin for new properties and fundamental, desired and undesired, processes like phase formation, corrosion, heterogeneous catalysis etc. In this lecture at first surfaces and interfaces will be presented as a "new state of matter". Then a number of fundamental surface  and interface specific processes will be investigated with down to atomic/submolecular resolution. The selected examples will include heterogeneous catalysis at alloy surfaces, thin oxide film formation, selfassembly of organic molecules at metal/electrolyte interfaces as well as nanoscale wax structures from green leaves.