Dr. James W. Evans
Ames Laboratory Associate and Professor, Iowa State University
Fax 515-294-4709
Email evans@ameslab.gov
Address
315 Wilhelm Hall
The Ames Laboratory
Ames, IA 50011-3020
Phone 515-294-1638Fax 515-294-4709
Email evans@ameslab.gov
Research Interests
- Spatiotemporal behavior in chemisorption and catalysis on metal surfaces: realistic atomistic-level modeling of reaction kinetics; analysis of chemical diffusion and multi-scale modeling of reaction-diffusion behavior; analysis of fluctuations in nanoscale systems.
- Fundamental statistical mechanical studies of far-from-equilibrium reaction-diffusion phenomena including kinetic phase transitions.
- Interplay between anomalous transport and reaction in catalytically-functionalized mesoporous and nanoporous materials.
- Self-assembly and stability of single- and multi-component epitaxial metal nanostructures formed by deposition on single-crystal surfaces.
- Growth and relaxation epitaxial thin films: submonolayer nucleation & growth of islands; multilayer kinetic roughening; post-deposition coarsening; step flow during growth and erosion.
- Realistic multi-site lattice-gas models for CO-oxidation on Pd(100), Rh(100), Pt(100), and other surfaces.
- Heterogeneous-coupled-lattice-gas modeling of patterns and fronts in catalytic surface reactions (HCLG is our Heterogeneous Multiscale Method).
- Statistical mechanical analysis of discontinuous poisoning transitions (including generic two-phase coexistence and metastability) in reaction-diffusion models.
- Modeling of catalytic conversion reactions and polymerization reactions in nanoporous systems with single-file diffusion.
- Continuous-random-network models structure of amorphous materials (e.g., mesoporous oxide catalysts).
- Formation of epitaxial nanostructures by deposition on a NiAl(110) binary alloy substrate, including analysis of alloy self-growth.
- Effect of chalcogen additives (S, O) on stability of noble metal surface nanostructures (including additive-enhanced coarsening and cluster mobility).
- Predictive atomistic and coarse-grained modeling of homoepitaxial thin film growth (for both submonolayer and multilayer regimes).
- Development of general multi-site lattice-gas models and KMC simulation algorithms incorporating precise kinetics (surface diffusion barriers) for epitaxial systems.
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(Chronologically most recent on top)Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 1979-81, Chemical Physics, Iowa State University
- Ph.D. 1979, Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, Australia
- B.Sc. (Hons) 1975, Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Australia
(Chronologically most recent on top)Professional Appointments
- Senior Scientist, 1996-present; Chemist, 1993-96; Associate Scientist, 1983-93; Assistant Chemist, 1982-83, Ames Laboratory-USDOE.
- Professor of Physics & Astronomy, 2010-present, Iowa State University
- Professor of Mathematics, 1996-present; Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1991-1996, Iowa State University.
- Visiting Scientist, Institute of Mathematics & its Applications, U. Minnesota, 2009.
- Visiting Scientist, Institute of Physics - CAS, Beijing, 2009.
- Visiting Scientist, Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France, 2000.
- Visiting Scientist, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1991.
(Chronologically most recent on top)Honors & Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002-present.
(Chronologically most recent on top)Publications with the Ames Laboratory
2007
Li M; Evans J W; Wang C Z; Hupalo M; Tringides M C; Chan T L; Ho K M . 2007. Strongly-driven coarsening of height-selected Pb islands on Si(111). Surface Science. 601:L140-L144. abstract Export: Tagged BibTex
Unal B; Evans J W; Lograsso T A; Ross A R; Jenks C J; Thiel P A . 2007. Terrace-dependent nucleation of small Ag clusters on a five-fold icosahedral quasicrystal surface. Philosophical Magazine. 87:2995-3001. abstract
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