| People
- Faculty
- Professor:
Horia Metiu |
| Field(s): |
Theoretical Chemistry |
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| Email: |
metiu@chem.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: |
(805)
893-
2256 |
Fax:
(805)
893-
4120 |
| Office: |
4148A Chem |
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Selected
Publications |
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| Bio: |
Dr. Metiu obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1974. After postdoctoral research at MIT and the University of Chicago, he came to Santa Barbara in 1976. His awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1978), a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1979), the Exxon Solid State Chemistry ACS award (1979), and the UCSB Faculty Research Lectureship (1987). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Japan Association for the Promotion of Science. |
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Current
Research
Time-dependent statistical mechanics with applications to reaction rates,
hydrogen diffusion on surfaces, desorption rate; catalysis by metal
nanoparticles on oxide supports; simulations of fuel-cell membranes.
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| Selected
Research Publications |
| Catalysis by doped oxides: CO oxidation by AuxCe1-x O2, Vladimir Shapovalov and Horia Metiu, J. Catalysis 245, 205-214 (2007). |
| Efficient electrocatalyst utilization: electrochemical deposition of Pt nanoparticles using Nafion membrane as a template, Ju Chou, Shrisudersan Jayaraman, Asanga D. Ranasinghe, Eric W. McFarland, Steven K. Buratto, and Horia Metiu, J. Phys. Chem B 110, 7119-7121 (2006). |
| Excess proton solvation and delocalization in a hydrophilic pocket of the proton-conducting polymer membrane Nafion, Matt K. Petersen, Feng Wang, Nick P. Blake, Horia Metiu, and Gregory A. Voth, J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (9), 3727-3730 (2005). |
| Density functional study of the adsorption of propene on mixed gold-silver clusters, AunAgm: propensity rules for binding, Steeve Chrétien, Mark S. Gordon, and Horia Metiu, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 9931-9937 (2004). |
| How the folding rate constant of simple, single-domain proteins depends on the number of native contacts, Dmitrii E. Makarov, Craig A. Keller, Kevin W. Plaxco, and Horia Metiu, Proc. Natl Acad. Sciences USA 99, 3535-3539 (2002). |
| Control, with an RF field, of photon emission times by a single molecule and its connection to laser-induced localization of an electron in a double well, Dmitrii E. Makarov and Horia Metiu, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 5989-5993 (2001). |
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