Professor of Physical & Computational Surface Chemistry

My research is centred upon the physics and chemistry of solid surfaces, explored predominantly through first-principles computational techniques (often in conjunction with ultra-high vacuum single-crystal experiments performed by colleagues and collaborators).

Past and present topics of particular interest include:

  • surface structure and symmetry, with a focus on chirality at multiple length-scales; 
  • reaction dynamics of highly-oxidising species on semiconducting surfaces; 
  • electronic structure of half-metal surfaces, including states with non-trivial topology;
  • non-trivial topology in bulk and surface phonon band structures;
  • hydrogen and halogen bonding in adsorbed overlayers on graphite and gold;
  • heterogeneous catalysis (ammonia synthesis, hydrocarbon combustion and synthesis, water gas shift, selective reduction).

In addition to my primary research, I am the author of two books - Chirality at Solid Surfaces (Wiley, 2018) and Foundations of Surface Science (Oxford University Press, 2023). I lecture undergraduate courses on the Electronic Structure and Properties of Solids; Surfaces and Interfaces; and the Electronic Structure of Solid Surfaces.

Professor Jenkins discusses his research

Publications

Proline-Derived Structural Phases on Cu{311}
DC Madden, I Temprano, SJ Jenkins, SM Driver
Topics in Catalysis
(2015)
58
Spontaneous local symmetry breaking: A conformational study of glycine on Cu{311}
DC Madden, I Temprano, M Sacchi, SJ Jenkins
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2015)
119
Epitaxial growth of few-layer MoS2(0001) on FeS2{100}
T Liu, I Temprano, DA King, SM Driver, SJ Jenkins
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2015)
51
Self-Organized Over layers Formed by Alanine on Cu{311} Surfaces
DC Madden, I Temprano, M Sacchi, M Blanco-Rey, SJ Jenkins, SM Driver
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2014)
118
Infrared spectroscopy of ammonia on iron: Thermal stability and the influence of potassium
P Iyngaran, DC Madden, DA King, SJ Jenkins
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2014)
118
Co-adsorption of water and glycine on Cu{110}.
M Sacchi, SJ Jenkins
Phys Chem Chem Phys
(2014)
16
Dynamics in surface chemistry
SJ Jenkins
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2014)
248
How physisorption guides chemisorption: Studied a-molecule-at-a-time by STM
J Polanyi, A Chatterjee, F Cheng, K Huang, SJ Jenkins, W Ji, L Leung, T Lim, Z Ning, M Sacchi, C Wang
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2014)
247
On the role of molecular chirality in amino acid self-organisation on Cu{311}
DC Madden, ML Bentley, SJ Jenkins, SM Driver
Surface Science
(2014)
629
Supramolecular self-assembled network formation containing NBr halogen bonds in physisorbed overlayers
AY Brewer, M Sacchi, JE Parker, CL Truscott, SJ Jenkins, SM Clarke
Phys Chem Chem Phys
(2014)
16

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