Ohhhhhhhhhh we are so interdisciplinary
I have been told that interdisciplinary research is the future. Well, Surface Science always was interdisciplinary. However, most surface scientists do not highlight this aspect of their work which may affect funding and student's acceptance. We don’t make a big story out of it, we do it. Therefore, I would like to highlight that just my own Surface Science group did work on Catalysis (U. Burghaus, Royal Society of Chemistry, Catalysis: Volume 25, 2013, 25, 141), Nanoscience (Nano Letters 7 (2007) 1091, S. Funk, B. Hokkanen, U. Burghaus, A. Ghicov, P. Schmuki), Theory (stochastic models - e.g. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A21 (2003) 1284, J. Stephan, U. Burghaus; quantum chemistry - Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112 (2008) 7390, E. Kadossov, U. Burghaus), Materials Science (Materials Research Bulletin, 47 (2012), 1653, Y. Tsverin, R. Popovitz-Biro, Y. Feldman, R. Tenne, M. Komarneni, Z. Yu, A. Chakradhar, A. Sand, U. Burghaus), Environmental Science (e.g. Surface Science Studies of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry, U. Burghaus, chapter 3, in NEW AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN CATALYSIS: ACTIVIATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE, Elsevier, 2013), Energy technology (Preparation and Characterization of Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy Production ACS Nano 4 (2010) 5517, Chang-jun Liu, Uwe Burghaus, Flemming Besenbacher, Zhong Lin Wang), "traditional" Surface Science (A. Chakradhar, U. Burghaus, Surface Science 616 (2013) 171; PRL 90 (2003) 106102--106102-4), Interface Science (Surface and Interface Analysis 40 (2008) 893, E. Kadossov, U. Burghaus), Thin films (...anatase thin film..., Catalysis Letters 116 (2007) 9, J. Goering, E. Kadossov, U. Burghaus, Z.Q. Yu, S. Thevuthasan, L.V. Saraf), team-taught course (Pchem lab, NDSU center for writers, 2012 test run), distance education class (surface science class with international participation of materials science/engineering group, 2010). As you can see here, we don't just talk about it, we do it, striving for a meaningful synergy of very different fields.
Another way to entangle this is mentioning that we did work on a variety of [ materials ].
In layman's terms we probably had nearly everything under study that can legally be put in a vacuum chamber and more so, including work at ambient pressure on powders.
Our co-authors include undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, women, national and international collaborators, colleagues from national labs as well as many in-house projects. Our graduates take classes in nearly any chemical discipline and sometimes engineering as well as physics.
I would like to iterate that this is very common for Surface Science – the future is Surface Science then, following what I have been told.
June 2012, Uwe Burghaus
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Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference
1977:http://books.google.com/books/about/Interdisciplinary_surface_science.html?id=EIguAAAAIAAJ
2013, ISSC-19: http://www.nature.com/natureevents/science/events/18207-Interdisciplinary_Surface_Science_Conference_ISSC_19
Ohhhhhhhhhh we are so interdisciplinary .......
Interdisciplinary enough?:
Tourists' Guide to Mars
-Scientific Perspective in a Nutshell-
by U. Burghaus
2016, textbook, paperback, 150 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-9911530-7-7
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Adsorption of water on JSC-1A (simulated moon dust samples) - a surface science study,
Surface and Interface Analysis 40 (2008) 1423-29
by J. Goering, Shweta Sah, U. Burghaus (NDSU)and K.W. Street, Jr. (NASA-Glenn)
NASA internal report see NASA TM-2008-215279