Welcome to the Salmeron group

The research in the group of Professor Miquel Salmeron is centered on the nanometer scale chemical, electronic, and mechanical properties of surfaces and interfaces.

The group currently consists of 8 post docs, 1 graduate and undergraduate students and 0 visiting professors and students.

You can read more about the research activities in the Salmeron group by clicking on the images below:

 

News and highlights

Congratulations to Miquel!
Miquel adds the Berkeley Lab Lifetime Achievement Award to his bucket of prestigious scientific awards! Click on the Berkeley Lab icon to read more about it.

 Science Jan 2016


Congratulations to Christian, Baran, and Barbara!
Their last paper in Surface Science is Editor's Choice. Silver is a typical catalyst for epoxidation reactions, where oxygen is one of the reactants. Here, we present a thorough high pressure STM and XPS study providing unique insights on the state of silver catalysts in the presence of oxygen and air.

 Surface_Science


Congratulations to Rob for developing the technique which allows collecting x-ray photoelectron spectra at atmospheric pressures. Read more in JPCL!

The title of the paper is "Graphene Membranes for Atmospheric Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy".

Atm. XPS


Congratulations to Seiji and Yi-Hsien
Seiji has been awarded a two-year JSPS fellowship for his post-doctoral research at the LBL! Yi-Hsien has been awarded a one-year fellowship from Taiwan.

JSPS Fellowship


Congratulations to Baran for getting published in Science!
The title of the paper is "Activation of Cu(111) surface by decomposition into nanoclusters driven by CO adsorption." You can access the full version of the article by clicking the link above. For the pdf version click the 'Science' icon.

Science Jan 2016

Congratulations to Baran and Christian!
Their last paper in JACS is selected as a research spotlight!

JACS


Congratulations to Robert!
Rob has been awarded a Marie Curie fellowship for his post-doctoral research at the LBL!

Marie Curie Fellowship


Congratulations to Yingjie for getting published in Nano Letters three times in 2015!

Nanoletters


APS Davisson-Germer Prize awarded to Miquel!
"for the development of instrumentation for atmospheric pressure photoelectron spectroscopy and STM at high pressures and temperatures, and for his elegant studies of hydrogen dissociation and reactivity and the wetting of water films on metal surfaces at the atomic level."
 APS


 

Featured Results

"Activation of Cu(111) Surface by Decomposition into Nanoclusters Driven by CO Adsorption"
B. Eren, D. Zherebetskyy, L. L. Patera, C. H. Wu, H. Bluhm, C. Africh, L.-W. Wang, G. A. Somorjai, M. Salmeron
Science, 2016, 351, 475-478, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8868

 Science2016



"Graphene Membranes for Atmospheric Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy"
R. S. Weatherup, B. Eren, Y. Hao, H. Bluhm, M. Salmeron
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., in print, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00640

 JACS2015



 

Contact information

Materials Sciences Division
Mail Stop 66R0200 (Office: 66-208)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley
California 94720 USA
Phone: +1-510-486-6704
FAX: +1-510-486-7768
Email: mbsalmeron*lbl.gov (replace * by @)
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