Summary
With support from the Chemical Structure and Dynamics (CSD) and Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) programs, Professor Shaowei Li of the University of California-San Diego is investigating how the local surface structure and nanoscale environment control the chemical reactivity of individual molecules. Chemical reactions on surfaces underpin technologies ranging from catalysis to semiconductor manufacturing, yet most experiments measure billions of molecules at once, masking the unique behavior of any single one. At the smallest scales, tiny variations in the arrangement of surface atoms,
