Suljo linic biography
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Abstract:
Metal nanoparticles are used as commercial catalysts for many chemical reactions, including ammonia synthesis, hydrocarbon reforming, oxidation and hydrogenation reactions. In commercial systems, these reactions are triggered by the thermal heating of catalyst nanoparticles. This process excites the phonon modes of the nanoparticles, which couple with the reaction coordinate (for example, vibrational modes of the reacting adsorbates). This coupling results in the evolution of the adsorbate from the reactant to the product state on the ground-state potential energy surface. These reactions usually require relatively high temperatures, and the distribution of the products is governed by the ground-state free-energy landscape. They offer limited opportunities to tune the product selectivity.
We recently made an important breakthrough by showing that relatively small plasmonic metal nanoparticles, illuminated with visible light, can activate chemical reactions on their surfa
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Suljo Linic
Biography
Suljo Linic was born in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he completed his elementary and high school education. His family were forcefully displaced from Bosnia during the Bosnian war of 1990s. He moved to the USA in 1994 after being awarded a faculty scholarship from West Chester University (West Chester, PA). He completed his BS degree in Physics with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry at West Chester University (PA) in the spring of 1998. Suljo obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering in 2003 working with Prof. Mark Barteau at University of Delaware, specializing in surface and colloidal chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. He was a Max Planck postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler at the Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck samhälle in Berlin (Germany), working on first principles studies of surface chemistry. He started his independent faculty career in 2004 at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Univers•
Prof. Suljo Linic was born in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he completed his elementary and high school education. His family were forcefully displaced from Bosnia during the Bosnian war of 1990s. He moved to the USA in 1994 after being awarded a faculty scholarship from West Chester University in PA. Suljo obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering in 2004 working with Prof. Mark Barteau at University of Delaware, specializing in surface and colloidal chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. He was a Max Planck postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler at the Fritz Haber Institute, working on first principles studies of surface chemistry. He started his independent faculty career in 2004 at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he is currently Martin Lewis Perl Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering. Suljo’s research has been recognized through multiple awards. There are too many to list here,