EDITORIAL: Focus on Advances in Surface and Interface Science 2009 FOCUS ON ADVANCES IN SURFACE AND INTERFACE SCIENCE 2009

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Dec 2009

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 11, Issue 12, pp. 125001 (2009).

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Nearly 80% of all chemical reactions in nature and in human technology take place at boundaries between phases, i.e., at surfaces or interfaces. A detailed understanding of the elementary processes at surfaces and interfaces is therefore necessary to support and to advance the high technology that very much founds the prosperity and life style of our society. One of the challenges of modern surface science is thus to expand its range of investigations to all types of surfaces and interfaces and to develop a thorough understanding of the relationships between molecular-scale surface properties and parameters relevant to potential applications and devices.
Beyond these technological drivers, however, is a rich range of novel and fundamental physical and chemical properties at surfaces and interfaces down to the nanoscale whose study represents outstanding intellectual challenges. The current research focuses on atomic- and molecular-level studies of the structure (atomic and electronic), bonding, reactivity, dynamics, restructuring, and magnetism at the surfaces and interfaces of metals, oxides, semiconductors, polymers, biological molecules, and liquids. Such investigations are becoming more and more important in view of the increasing emphasis on nanometer-scale structures in almost every technological application, from heterogeneous catalysis to microcircuit fabrication to magnetic data storage. As the scale of devices continues to be reduced, the distinction between bulk and surface properties becomes blurred, and all of the properties of materials tend to become interfacial
This Focus Issue includes exciting new developments in the field of surface and interface science ranging, e.g., from the properties of metal-water interfaces to single-atom contacts. Special emphasis was taken to coupling theory with experiments aimed at elucidating fundamental atomic scale phenomena. It combines a broad expert and frontiers survey of research in this field today with an up to date look into the future.
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Self-organized atomic nanowires of noble metals on Ge(001): atomic structure and electronic properties J Schäfer, S Meyer, C Blumenstein, K Roensch, R Claessen, S Mietke, M Klinke, T Podlich, R Matzdorf, A A Stekolnikov, S Sauer and F Bechstedt
The role of polymorphism in organic thin films: oligoacenes investigated from first principles Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Dmitrii Nabok, Peter Puschnig and Christian Meisenbichler
Searching for Si-based spintronics by first principles calculations Mahboubeh Hortamani, Leonid Sandratskii, Peter Kratzer and Ingrid Mertig
Measuring spin polarization vectors in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy F Meier, J H Dil1 and J Osterwalder
Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of oxide hybrid and heterostructures: a new method for the study of buried interfaces R Claessen, M Sing, M Paul, G Berner, A Wetscherek, A Müller and W Drube
Single-atom contacts with a scanning tunnelling microscope J Kröger, N Néel, A Sperl, Y F Wang and R Berndt
Electron-phonon coupling at surfaces and interfaces Ph Hofmann, I Yu Sklyadneva, E D L Rienks and E V Chulkov
Adsorption of cobalt (II) octaethylporphyrin and 2H-octaethylporphyrin on Ag(111): new insight into the surface coordinative bond Yun Bai, Florian Buchner, Ina Kellner, Martin Schmid, Florian Vollnhals, Hans-Peter Steinrück, Hubertus Marbach and J Michael Gottfried
Properties of metal-water interfaces studied from first principles Sebastian Schnur and Axel Groß
Introducing artificial length scales to tailor magnetic properties J Fassbender, T Strache, M O Liedke, D Markó, S Wintz, K Lenz, A Keller, S Facsko, I Mönch and J McCord

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