Oxide Surfaces and Their Interaction with Metal Overlayers

该提案汇集了一个跨学科小组， 来自表面物理学、表面 化学、材料科学和陶瓷工程学 氧化物表面的基本性质及其相互作用 金属覆盖层。 这项研究与当前和 未来科技 氧化物的应用范围 材料包括具有所需性能的陶瓷材料 用于磨损或结构用途，用于光纤的无定形氧化物， 通讯，化学和生物传感器，复合材料， 催化剂和新型高温超导材料。 研究的目标是识别和理解 影响吸附、成核和 在氧化物表面上生长金属覆盖层。 主要 科学的重点将是（1）金属覆盖层的形成， 良好表征的氧化物表面，（2）金属化的 结构氧化物，和（3）金属吸附和覆盖层 在无定形氧化物和硅酸盐上生长。

This proposal brings together an interdisciplinary group of investigators from the fields of surface physics, surface chemistry, materials science, and ceramics engineering to study fundamental properties of oxide surfaces and their interactions metal overlayers. This research is relevant to current and future technology. The spectrum of applications of oxide materials includes ceramic materials with desirable properties for wear or structural use, amorphous oxides for fiber optics and communications, chemical and biological sensors, composites, catalysts and the new high temperature superconducting materials. The goal of the research is to identify and understand the key surface properties that affect the adsorption, nucleation, and growth of metal overlayers on oxide surfaces. The major scientific emphasis will be on (1) metal overlayer formation on well characterized oxide surfaces, (2) metallization of a structural oxide, and (3) metallic adsorption and overlayer growth on amorphous oxides and silicates.