Winners of the 2008 Student Poster Competition

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s Annu­al Stu­dent Poster Con­test was held on March 13, 2008 with 24 stu­dent entries, plus one post-doc­tor­al pre­sen­ter. Top hon­ors went to Mosha He Zhou from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, with her poster Direct In Situ “Deter­mi­na­tion of the Polar­iza­tion Depen­dence of Adsorp­tion on Fer­ro­elec­tric Sur­faces”. Four run­ners-up include Bill Pyrz (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) with “Direct Obser­va­tion of the MoVNbTeO M1 Phase Using aber­ra­tion-cor­rect­ed High-Res­o­lu­tion STEM”; Gong Zhou (Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia) with “Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the Equi­lib­ri­um Redox Prop­er­ties for Ceria-based Mixed Oxides”; Carl Men­ning (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) with “Gen­er­al Trends in the Sta­bil­i­ty of Mono­lay­er Bimetal­lic Sur­faces”; and Paul Dim­ick (Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty) with “Exam­in­ing the Sur­face of a Syn­er­gis­tic Pt-Rh/γ-Al2O3 Cat­a­lyst with In-situ FTIR Spec­troscopy Using NO as a Probe Mol­e­cule”. Mosha Zhou will be pre­sent­ing a talk on her work at the Catal­y­sis Club’s Annu­al Spring Sym­po­sium, May 22, 2008.