Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Probe Microscopy System

在这个项目中，我们建议采购一个用于催化和电催化模型研究的真空扫描探针显微镜系统。该系统应安装在新成立的界面研究和催化主席，作为弗里德里希-亚历山大-埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学埃尔兰根催化研究中心的一部分。新仪器将与化学、物理、材料科学和化学工程等各工作组密切合作，用于该工作组目前和今后的所有项目。计划的工作将侧重于可再生能源领域催化和电催化过程的基础研究，特别是能源转化和储存，氢的化学储存以及节能催化和材料合成等主题。在一般情况下，在界面研究的椅子上的研究，并侧重于使用模型催化的概念在界面上的化学反应的机械和微观动力学研究。模型催化剂是复杂但原子定义的界面，其类似于真实的催化剂的特定结构和化学性质。它们使我们能够将界面的微观性质与其催化性能相关联。拟议的仪器将是必不可少的模型催化剂的结构特性的表征，因此，关闭了提议组的仪器组合中的一个关键的差距。

In this project, we propose the procurement of an ultrahigh vacuum scanning probe microscopy system for model studies in catalysis and electrocatalysis. The system shall be installed at the newly established Chair of Interface Research and Catalysis as part of the Erlangen Catalysis Research Center of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The new instrument will be employed in all present and future projects of the operating group in close cooperation with various workgroups in chemistry, physics, materials science and chemical engineering. The planned work will focus on fundamental investigations of catalytic and electrocatalytic processes in the field of renewable energies, in particular on the topics of energy transformation and storage, chemical storage of hydrogen, and energy-efficient catalysis and materials synthesis. In general, research at the Chair of Interface Research and focuses on mechanistic and microkinetic studies of chemical reactions at interfaces using the concepts of model catalysis. Model catalysts are complex but atomically-defined interfaces, which resemble specific structural and chemical properties of real catalysts. They allow us to correlate the microscopic properties of the interface to its catalytic performance. The proposed instrument will be essential for the characterization of the structural properties of model catalysts and, thus, closes a critical gap in the instrumental portfolio of the proposing group.