A Tribute to Professor Gaetano Granozzi and His Contributions to Surface Science on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
Department of Chemistry, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA
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Associate Editor of Surfaces.
Surfaces 2021, 4(4), 293-294; https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces4040024
Submission received: 25 November 2021
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Accepted: 25 November 2021
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Published: 27 November 2021
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, we celebrate the career of our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Gaetano Granozzi. Prof. Granozzi’s work is marked by his dedication to the fundamental understanding of technologically relevant systems through the lens of surface science.
His approach to the field developed from a background in inorganic chemistry and an expansion of the concept of the cluster–surface analogy. His desire to connect experimental advances to theoretical understanding rather than just correlation has led him to explore both high-surface area and ideal single-crystal materials with a range of UHV-based spectroscopic and structural tools as well as wet chemical studies. His work has spanned a broad range of materials, and he has branched out from his roots in heterogeneous catalysis to encompass photo- and electro-catalysis as well. Perhaps his most impactful investigations have resulted from the training of his sights on graphene and other 2D systems.
His growing influence on the fields of materials for energy applications and solar chemistry is exemplified by his recent work published both in Surfaces and elsewhere, in which he and his colleagues have explored systems ranging from porphyrin layers on single-crystal Au substrates [1] to graphene [2,3], TiO2 [4], mesoporous carbon [5], Ni-doped MoS2 [6], and WS2 [7]. Professor Granozzi’s work on CO2 reduction [8] and H2 generation [9,10] has provided atomic-scale understanding to electrocatalytic processes that will to underpin the translation of surface science advancements into the processes that are required for the increasingly sustainable chemical industry of the future.
The members of the Editorial Board of MDPI’s Surfaces are honored by the commitment that Professor Granozzi has displayed in building up Surfaces from a mere idea into an established open access forum for the publication of frontier research in surface science as it has been broadly defined.
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References
- Kosmala, T.; Blanco, M.; Granozzi, G.; Wandelt, K. Potential Driven Non-Reactive Phase Transitions of Ordered Porphyrin Molecules on Iodine-Modified Au(100): An Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (EC-STM) Study. Surfaces 2018, 1, 12–28. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
- Mattevi, C.; Eda, G.; Agnoli, S.; Miller, S.; Mkhoyan, K.A.; Celik, O.; Mastrogiovanni, D.; Granozzi, G.; Garfunkel, E.; Chhowalla, M. Evolution of Electrical, Chemical, and Structural Properties of Transparent and Conducting Chemically Derived Graphene Thin Films. Adv. Func. Mater. 2009, 19, 2577–2583. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Favaro, M.; Ferrighi, L.; Fazio, G.; Colazzo, L.; Di Valentin, C.; Durante, C.; Sedona, F.; Gennaro, A.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G. Single and Multiple Doping in Graphene Quantum Dots: Unraveling the Origin of Selectivity in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 129–144. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Czoska, A.M.; Livraghi, S.; Chiesa, M.; Giamello, E.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G.; Finazzi, E.; Valentin, C.D.; Pacchioni, G. The Nature of Defects in Fluorine-Doped TiO2. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 8951–8956. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Perazzolo, V.; Durante, C.; Pilot, R.; Paduano, A.; Zheng, J.; Rizzi, G.A.; Martucci, A.; Granozzi, G.; Gennaro, A. Nitrogen and sulfur doped mesoporous carbon as metal-free electrocatalysts for the in situ production of hydrogen peroxide. Carbon 2015, 95, 949–963. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Mosconi, D.; Till, P.; Calvillo, L.; Kosmala, T.; Garoli, D.; Debellis, D.; Martucci, A.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G. Effect of Ni Doping on the MoS2 Structure and Its Hydrogen Evolution Activity in Acid and Alkaline Electrolytes. Surfaces 2019, 2, 531–545. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
- Kosmala, T.; Palczynski, P.; Amati, M.; Gregoratti, L.; Sezen, H.; Mattevi, C.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G. Strain Induced Phase Transition of WS2 by Local Dewetting of Au/Mica Film upon Annealing. Surfaces 2021, 4, 1–8. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Ma, B.; Blanco, M.; Calvillo, L.; Chen, L.; Chen, G.; Lau, T.-C.; Dražić, G.; Bonin, J.; Robert, M.; Granozzi, G. Hybridization of Molecular and Graphene Materials for CO2 Photocatalytic Reduction with Selectivity Control. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8414–8425. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
- Favaro, M.; Cattelan, M.; Price, S.W.T.; Russell, A.E.; Calvillo, L.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G. In Situ Study of Graphene Oxide Quantum Dot-MoSx Nanohybrids as Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts. Surfaces 2020, 3, 225–236. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Kosmala, T.; Baby, A.; Lunardon, M.; Perilli, D.; Liu, H.; Durante, C.; Di Valentin, C.; Agnoli, S.; Granozzi, G. Operando visualization of the hydrogen evolution reaction with atomic-scale precision at different metal–graphene interfaces. Nat. Catal. 2021, 4, 850–859. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKolasinski, Kurt W. 2021. "A Tribute to Professor Gaetano Granozzi and His Contributions to Surface Science on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday" Surfaces 4, no. 4: 293-294. https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces4040024
APA StyleKolasinski, K. W. (2021). A Tribute to Professor Gaetano Granozzi and His Contributions to Surface Science on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Surfaces, 4(4), 293-294. https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces4040024
