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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b>ChBE Dept. Seminar<br>10:30am-11:30am, Friday, December 13, 2013<br>Rm W122</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Elementary Reaction Steps on Late Transition Metal Catalysts, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and in their Sintering<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Charles T Campbell<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>University of Washington<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ABSTRACT:</span></u></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A survey of experimental and theoretical results concerning the thermodynamics and kinetics of surface chemical reactions of importance in late transition metal catalysis will be presented. Topics include: (1) calorimetric measurements of the adsorption energies of small molecules and molecular fragments on single crystal surfaces, and their comparison to DFT results; (2) new measurements of the entropies of adsorbates and the trends they follow, (3) using these together with elementary-step rate measurements to build microkinetic models for multi-step catalytic reactions, and a method for analyzing these that quantifies the extent to which each elementary step and intermediate controls the net rate; and, (4) studies of the energetics and kinetics of sintering of oxide-supported late transition metal nanoparticles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>