Rong Zhang
104 Chemistry Building, #293Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
rxz139@ psu.edu
Research
I work on low temperature, extreme-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (LT-XHV STM) under the guidance of Prof. Paul. S. Weiss. I am interested in using scan probe techniques to study catalysis and dynamics of single molecules on metal surfaces. I am currently working on utilizing the ability to manipulate subsurface hydride in palladium to control chemical reactions of molecular species (e.g., thiophene, furan) on the surface and to study the reactivity of subsurface hydride at the atomic level by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS).Teaching
Chem 14, General Chemistry Lab I, Fall 2005 & Spring 2006, PSUWeiss group webpage
Other STM research groups
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