Projekt

The chemistry on surfaces governs the larger fraction of the industrially relevant chemical processes and is a key ingredient to solve modern challenges for the society, like the production of fuels in an eco-friendly way and the cleaning of exhaust gases from combustion processes. Nevertheless, the details of the electronic structure during reactions on surfaces are still unknown. The new hard X-ray free-electron lasers provide a unique tool to study the formation and breaking of bonds after the reaction has been induced by specific excitations. During the fellowship the formation of a chemical bond in real time is studied for the first time by measuring changes in the electronic structure. As example reaction the catalytic oxidation of carbonmonoxide will be used. In a secondary project, the new opportunities of the Terahertz source at LCLS will be exploited to induce novel ultrafast chemical processes on surfaces.

• Dr. Martin Beye

  Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  für Materialien und Energie GmbH
  Institut für Methoden und Instrumentierung der
  Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung
  Wilhelm-Konrad-Röntgen-Campus BESSY
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Anders Nilsson

  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
  Menlo Park, CA
  USA