Alec M. Wodtke

Research interests

Publications

• Following the microscopic pathway to adsorption through chemisorption and physisorption wells

  Science · 2020 · 10.1126/science.abc9581

• Imaging covalent bond formation by H atom scattering from graphene

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aaw6378

• Velocity-resolved kinetics of site-specific carbon monoxide oxidation on platinum surfaces

  Nature · 2018 · 10.1038/s41586-018-0188-x

• Electronically non-adiabatic influences in surface chemistry and dynamics

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2016 · 10.1039/c6cs00078a

• Electron-hole pair excitation determines the mechanism of hydrogen atom adsorption

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aad4972

• The Dynamics of Molecular Interactions and Chemical Reactions at Metal Surfaces: Testing the Foundations of Theory

  Annual Review of Physical Chemistry · 2015 · 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121958

• Ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction in transmission resolves polymer/graphene superstructure dynamics

  Science · 2014 · 10.1126/science.1250658

• Site-specific photocatalytic splitting of methanol on TiO2(110)

  Chemical Science · 2010 · 10.1039/c0sc00316f

• Pd-Sensitized Single Vanadium Oxide Nanowires: Highly Responsive Hydrogen Sensing Based on the Metal−Insulator Transition

  Nano Letters · 2009 · 10.1021/nl902020t

• Energy transfer and chemical dynamics at solid surfaces: The special role of charge transfer

  Progress in Surface Science · 2008 · 10.1016/j.progsurf.2008.02.001

• All-nitrogen chemistry: how far are we from N60?

  International Reviews in Physical Chemistry · 2006 · 10.1080/01442350600879319

• Conversion of large-amplitude vibration to electron excitation at a metal surface

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature03213

• Electronically non-adiabatic interactions of molecules at metal surfaces: Can we trust the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for surface chemistry?

  International Reviews in Physical Chemistry · 2004 · 10.1080/01442350500037521

• T HE D YNAMICS OF “S TRETCHED M OLECULES ”: Experimental Studies of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules With Stimulated Emission Pumping

  Annual Review of Physical Chemistry · 2001 · 10.1146/annurev.physchem.52.1.811

• Vibrational Promotion of Electron Transfer

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.290.5489.111

• The Stereodynamics of a Gas-Surface Reaction

  Science · 1997 · 10.1126/science.277.5322.80

• Vibrational Energy Transfer

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1996 · 10.1021/jp953735c

• Coherent cavity ring down spectroscopy

  Chemical Physics Letters · 1994 · 10.1016/0009-2614(93)e1361-j

• The "Ozone Deficit" Problem: O 2 ( X, v ≥ 26) + O( 3 P ) from 226-nm Ozone Photodissociation

  Science · 1994 · 10.1126/science.265.5180.1831

• Vibrational-state-specific self-relaxation rate constant. Measurements of highly vibrationally excited O2(ν = 19–28)

  Chemical Physics · 1993 · 10.1016/0301-0104(93)80230-7

• Infrared multiphoton dissociation of three nitroalkanes

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1986 · 10.1021/j100407a019

• Molecular beam studies of the F+H2 reaction

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.448254

• Molecular beam studies of the F+D2 and F+HD reactions

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1985 · 10.1063/1.448255

• Photodissociation of acetylene at 193.3 nm

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1985 · 10.1021/j100268a019

• Experimental Investigation of Resonances in Reactive Scattering: The F + H2 Reaction

  Physical Review Letters · 1984 · 10.1103/physrevlett.53.226

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