Prof Christopher Baddeley

Head of School

Professor

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3804
Email: cjb14@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research interests lie in the area of Surface Chemistry and its application to the understanding of heterogeneous catalysis. One strand of research focuses on the understanding of surface reaction mechanisms underpinning enantioselective heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and surface vibrational spectroscopy (both reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) and high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS)) are utilised in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) to characterise the adsorption of chiral molecules onto metal surfaces and the interaction of pro-chiral reagents with chirally modified surfaces. Facilities are also available for STM and RAIRS measurements of adsorption processes at the liquid-solid interface – i.e. conditions more relevant to the real catalytic systems. Recently, research has focussed on strategies for the development of novel enantioselective systems involving the construction of porous 2-D surface architectures utilising intermolecular H-bonding, metal organic co-ordination and surface confined covalent bond formation.

In addition, the technique of medium energy ion scattering (MEIS, Daresbury Laboratory) is used to characterise the depth dependent composition of bimetallic surfaces – in particular focusing on the influence of catalytically relevant gas phase species on surface composition. Recently, this work has been extended from single crystal bimetallic systems to bimetallic nanoparticles on oxide surfaces.

PhD supervision

Ines Bertaso
Al Rossin
Jinchuan Chen

Selected publications

Open access

Understanding the passivation layer formed by tolyltriazole on copper, bronze, and brass surfaces
Rossin, A. J., Grillo, F., Francis, S. M., Miller, D. N., Rossall, A. K., van den Berg, J. A., Hunt, G. J. & Baddeley, C. J., 1 Oct 2024, In: Applied Surface Science. 669, 8 p., 160585.
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Adsorption of the prototypical organic corrosion inhibitor benzotriazole on the Cu(100) surface
Turano, M., Walker, M., Grillo, F., Gattinoni, C., Hunt, G., Kirkman, P., Richardson, N. V., Baddeley, C. J. & Costantini, G., Oct 2022, In: Corrosion Science. 207, 10 p., 110589.
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Highly ordered N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers on Cu(111)
Angove, E., Grillo, F., Fruchtl, H. A., Veinot, A. J., Singh, I., Horton, J. H., Crudden, C. M. & Baddeley, C. J., 24 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13, 8, p. 2051-2056
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Surface confined hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons
Sung, Y.-Y., Vejayan, H., Baddeley, C. J., Grillo, F., Richardson, N. V. & Schaub, R., 26 Jul 2022, In: ACS Nano. 16, 7, p. 10281–10291 11 p.
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Thermal behaviour of Cu and Au nanoparticles grown on CeO₂ thin films
Megginson, R., Grillo, F., Francis, S. M., Paes, V. Z. C., Trombini, H., Grande, P. L., Rossall, A. K., van den Berg, J. A. & Baddeley, C. J., 28 Oct 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Surface Science. In press, 151656.
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Understanding the interaction of organic corrosion inhibitors with copper at the molecular scale: benzotriazole on Cu(110)
Turano, M., Walker, M., Grillo, F., Gattinoni, C., Edmondson, J., Adesida, O., Hunt, G., Kirkman, P., Richardson, N. V., Baddeley, C. J., Michaelides, A. & Costantini, G., 30 Dec 2021, In: Applied Surface Science. 570, 151206.
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N-heterocyclic carbenes reduce and functionalize copper oxide surfaces in one pot
Veinot, A., Al-Rashed, A., Padmos, J. D., Singh, I., Lee, D. S., Narouz, M. R., Lummis, P. A., Baddeley, C. J., Crudden, C. M. & Horton, J. H., 7 Aug 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemistry - A European Journal. Early View
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Phenylacetylene hydrogenation coupled with benzyl alcohol dehydrogenation over Cu/CeO₂: a consideration of Cu oxidation state
Pischetola, C., Francis, S. M., Grillo, F., Baddeley, C. J. & Cárdenas-Lizana, F., 13 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Catalysis. In press
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Oligomerization of proline catalyzed by Ni on a Au(111) surface
Seljamae-Green, R. T., Robinson, T., Fruchtl, H. A. & Baddeley, C. J., 18 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123, 15, p. 9935-9943
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Structural and electronic characterisation of Cu/Au(111) near-surface alloys
Grillo, F., Megginson, R., Batchelor, D., Muntwiler, M. & Baddeley, C. J., 18 Jun 2019, In: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 58, SI, 5 p., SIIB09.
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