CAREER: Steps Toward Ensuring the Quality of the Next Generation of Chemists, and Probing the Size-Dependent Properties of Catalytically Significant Metal Cluster/Adsorbate Compl

Jarroeld得到实验物理化学计划的支持，进行实验，利用阴离子光电子能谱系统地探索大小选择的、催化相关的金属团簇与简单有机吸附物之间的相互作用。目标是确定金属团簇的大小、几何形状和电子结构如何决定这些系统中的反应性。在这个职业奖项的教育部分，当地的高中科学教师将在贾罗尔德的机构从事暑期研究，与大学级别的科学材料发展更紧密的关系，并学习新的教学工具。本科化学课程的连续性也将被审查，以便为人口统计不同的本科生群体设计和测试具体的课程指导方针。了解化学催化对于石油化工和环境保护过程等战略应用具有重要的意义。支持的研究成果将对多相催化的发展产生影响。这些教育项目将有助于改善芝加哥地区高中的中学科学教育，并有助于更连贯和有效的本科化学课程。

Jarrold is supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program to perform experiments that systematically probe the interactions between size-selected, catalytically relevant metal clusters and simple organic adsorbates using anion photoelectron spectroscopy. The goals are to determine how metal cluster size, geometry, and electronic structure determine reactivity in these systems. In the educational part of this CAREER award, local high school science teachers will engage in summer research at Jarrold's institution, to develop stronger relationships with university-level scientific material and to learn new teaching tools. The continuity of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum will be examined as well, in order to devise and test concrete curricular guidelines for demographically diverse undergraduate student populations. Understanding chemical catalysis has important ramifications for strategic applications such as the petrochemical industry and environmental protection processes. Outcomes from the supported reseach will impact the development of heterogeneous catalysis. The educational projects will contribute to improving secondary science education in Chicago-area high schools, and contribute to a more coherent and effective undergraduate chemistry curriculum.