The Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A is soliciting research articles for a Special Topic Collection Commemorating the Career of Pat Thiel. This Special Collection will honor the seminal and interdisciplinary contributions of Professor Pat Thiel to understanding, observing and controlling surfaces and surface nanostructures. The articles in this collection will cover important challenges, new developments, and current understanding in a wide range of topics in Surface Science and in the many fields Pat Thiel influenced and participated in.
Topics covered include, but are not
limited to:
- supported metal nanoclusters
- intercalation in layered materials
- nucleation and growth of surface nanoclusters
- coarsening of surface nanostructures
- alloy, intermetallic, and quasicrystal surfaces
- chemisorption and catalysis
- thin film growth
