Throughout my career I have maintained an interest in gas, and more recently liquid, adsorption onto supported catalysts. Much of this area is integrated into the five catalysis areas. However it is important not to lose the specifics of adsorption within the overall catalysis, and of course adsorption has importance outside the area of catalysis.
Our studies have always related to ill-defined surfaces compared to single crystals. However adsorption studies on such systems are often the link between surface science and catalysis. Many of the studies have used isotopic labelling to trace the exchange processes occurring during adsorption.Radiochem.Radioanal.Letters, 28(5-6), 459, (1977)
J.Catal., 86, 333, (1984).
J.Catal., 102, 433 - 442, (1986)
J.Catal., 121, 312 - 317, (1990).
J.Catal., 139, 207 - 220 (1993).
J.Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - Letters, 200, 465 - 470, (1995).
J.Catal., 160, 235 - 243 (1996).
J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 1, 94, 955 - 961 (1998).
PCCP, 1, 2573 - 2580 (1999).
FTIR Studies of the Adsorption of Acetic Acid on Silicas., Reaction Kinet. Catal. Lett., 70, 207 - 212, (2000). (with G.J.Kelly and D.Lennon)
Surf. Science. 501, 270 – 281 (2002).
The Adsorption of Chiral 2,2'-Substituted-1,1'-Binaphthalenes on Silica-supported Palladium and Nickel. Adsorption Science and Technology, 24, 257 – 267, (2006). (with G. Webb, and N.C. Young)