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Personal Data
Italian Citizen
Born in Trieste January 19, 1973
Academic
2004: PhD in Physics, University of Trieste
1999: Degree in Physics, University of Trieste
Past academic experiences
- 2009-present: Research Scientist at Laboratorio TASC INFM-CNR Trieste (Italy)
- 2004-2009: PostDoc Grant by the University of Trieste at the Laboratorio TASC INFM-CNR Trieste (Italy)
- Mar-Apr 2002: Scientific collaboration at CAMP (Centre for Atomic Scale Physics), Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark (Prof. Flemming Besenbacher)
- 2001-2003: PhD fellowship at the University of Trieste
- Mar 2000-Jan 2001: INFM (National Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) fellowship at the Laboratorio TASC INFM-CNR
Scientific Interests
- Oxide formation on transition metal surfaces
- Dynamics of surface reactions
- Influence of strain on reactivity
- Ceria based catalysis: Oxygen vacancies, their interaction with supported metals and the resulting reactivity
- Clusters on oxide surfaces
Main experimental techniques
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) on metal and oxide surfaces (variable temp-STM and low temp-STM)
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) with Synchrotron Radiation Light
- Collaboration in the development of a fast STM module with video-frequency acquisition rate for the study of surface reaction dynamics
Known Languages
Italian, English
Some recent pubblications
- C. Africh, L. Köhler, F. Esch, M. Corso, C. Dri, T. Bucko, G. Kresse, and G. Comelli
Effects of Lattice Expansion on the Reactivity of a One-Dimensional Oxide
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 3253-3259 (2009)
selected as cover article of J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 9, Vol. 131
- G. Bavdek, A. Cossaro, D. Cvetko, C. Africh, C. Blasetti, F. Esch, A. Morgante and L. Floreano
Pentacene nanorails on Au(110)
Langmuir 24, 767-772 (2008)
- C. Dri, C. Africh, F. Esch, G. Comelli, O. Dubay, L. Köhler, F. Mittendorfer, G. Kresse, P. Dudin, and M. Kiskinova
Initial oxidation of the Rh(110) surface: Ordered adsorption and surface oxide structures
J. Chem. Phys. 125, 094701 (2006)
- C. Africh and G. Comelli
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Investigations of Simple Surface Reactions on Rh(110)
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, R387-R416 (2006)
- S. Günther, R. Hoyer, H. Marbach, R. Imbihl, F. Esch, C. Africh, G. Comelli and M. Kiskinova
K and Mixed K+O adlayers on Rh(110)
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 014706 (2006)
- C. Africh, H. Lin, M. Corso, F. Esch, R. Rosei, W.H. Hofer, and G. Comelli
Water Production Reaction on Rh(110)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 11454 (2005)
- F. Esch, S. Fabris, L. Zhou, T. Montini, C. Africh, P. Fornasiero, G. Comelli and R. Rosei
Electron Localization Determines Defect Formation on Ceria Substrates
Science 309, 752 (2005)
- S. Günther, F. Esch, M. del Turco, C. Africh, G. Comelli, and M. Kiskinova
K-Stabilized High Oxygen Coverage States on Rh(110): a Low Pressure Pathway to Formation of Surface Oxide
J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 11980 (2005)
- P. Dudin, A. Barinov, L. Gregoratti, M. Kiskinova, F. Esch, C. Dri, C. Africh, and G. Comelli
Initial Oxidation of a Rh(110) Surface using Atomic or Molecular Oxygen and Reduction of the Surface Oxide by Hydrogen
J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 13649 (2005)
- C. Africh, F. Esch, W.X. Li, M. Corso, B. Hammer, R. Rosei and G. Comelli
Two-Step Reaction on a Strained, Nanoscale segmented Surface
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 126104 (2004)
{selected for the September 27, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology}
- E. Wahlström, N. Lopez, R. Schaub, P. Thorstrup, A. Rønnau, C. Africh, E. Lægsgaard, J.K. Nørskov and F. Besenbacher
Bonding of Gold Nano-Clusters to Oxygen Vacancies on Rutile TiO2(110)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 026101 (2003)
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