Select Publications
"Surface Temperature Dependence of Methane Activation on Ni(111), D.R. Killelea, V.L. Campbell, N.S. Shuman, R.R. Smith and A.L. Utz, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 20618-20622, (2009).
"Comparative Study of C-H Stretch and Bend Vibrations in Methane Activation on Ni(100) and Ni(111).", L.B.F. Juurlink, R.R. Smith, D.R. Killelea, and A.L. Utz, Phys Rev. Lett., 94, 20 (2005).
"Preference For Vibrational Over Translational Energy in a Gas-Surface Reaction.", R.R. Smith, D.R. Killelea, D.F. Del Sesto, and A.L. Utz, Science, 304, 5673 (2004).
“The Role of Rotational Excitation in the Activated Dissociative Chemisorption of Vibrationally Excited Methane on Ni(100).”, L.B.F. Juurlink, R.R. Smith, and A.L. Utz, Trans. Farad. Soc. 117, 147 (2000).
“Controlling Surface Reactivity with Light: Spatially Resolved Deposition of Rovibrational-State Selected Molecules.”, L.B.F. Juurlink, R.R. Smith, and A.L. Utz, J. Phys. Chem. B, 104, 3327 (2000).
“Eigenstate-Resolved Studies of Gas-Surface Reactivity: CH4 (n3) Dissociation on Ni(100).”, L.B.F. Juurlink, P.R. McCabe, R.R. Smith, C.L. DiCologero, and A.L. Utz, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 868 (1999).
