Workshop Summary:  This workshop will discuss modern applications of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscpy (XPS), a nobel-prize winning technique, towards widespread use in probing various energy and environment interfaces. The relevant topics of discussion will cover energy storage materials, electrocatalysis, photovoltaics, solar fuels, thermal catalysis as well as developing operando XPS techniques for emerging applications. By assembling a group of XPS experts from across different fields, this workshop will target at formulating inter-disciplinary XPS solutions to produce rational molecular-level insights for macroscopic performance optimization.

Location: SLAC Building 53, Berryessa, 2002

Organizers:  Weilai Yu, Stanford University; Hiro Ogasawara, SLAC/SSRL

Program: 

8:00 am    Keynote Speaker 1: Vijay Murugesan (PNNL): "Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges in Surface Analysis of Battery Materials"

8:40 am    Glenn Teeter (NREL):  "In situ XPS studies of battery interfaces"

9:10 am    Hao Chen (SLAC): "Resolving the active phase of CoOx-Au model catalyst by APXPS and ResPES"

9:30 am    Oliver Gessner (LBNL): "Time-resolved XPS of interfacial dynamics underlying solar light harvesting"

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 am  Keynote Speaker 2: Anders Nilsson (Stockholm University/SLAC): "High Pressure Operando XPS studies of the Haber Bosch, Fischer Tropsch and Methanol Synthesis Catalytic Reactions"

11:10 am   Jiayue Wang (Stanford/MIT): "Understanding nanocatalyst exsolution on oxide surfaces with APXPS"

11:30 am  Ethan Crumlin (LBNL): "Using Tender X-ray APXPS to Reveal Insight into Electrochemical Interfaces"

12:00 pm   Lunch Break