Impact of Surface Science on Catalysis

Content: Dynamics of reactions at surfaces / Gerhard Ertl -- Theoretical surface science and catalysis, calculations and concepts / B. Hammer and J.K. Nørskov -- Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of catalytic reactions / Joost Wintterlin -- Adsorption energetics and bonding from femtomole calorimetry and from first principles theory / Qingfeng Ge, Rickmer Kose, and David A. King -- Active sites on oxides: from single crystals to catalysts / Hicham Idriss and Mark A. Barteau -- Catalysis and surface science: what do we learn from studies of oxide-supported cluster model systems? / H.-J. Freund, M. Bäumer, and H. Kuhlenbeck -- Sum frequency generation: surface vibrational spectroscopy studies of catalytic reactions on metal single-crystal surfaces / Gabor A. Somorjai and Keith R. McCrea