Assoc Prof Joe Shapter

Phone:	+61-8-8201-2005
Fax:	+61-8-8201-3035
E-mail:	Joe.Shapter@flinders.edu.au
Postal:	School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 Australia

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Research Interests

My main interest is in the area of surface science. In particular, the use of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to examine surfaces and surface processes on an atomic level.

STM is a relatively new technique that has the exciting feature of being able to resolve atomic-sized features. The general theme of the experiments in my lab is the examination, initially, and eventually the identification of matter on the molecular level. This identification will use rearrangements of adsorbed molecules through induced reactions (both intra- and inter molecular).

Induced Chemistry

Electrons that move between the tip and the surface could be used to initiate a electron attachment type dissociation of an adsorbed molecule. The novel thing about this "chemistry" is that the excitation of the molecule be bond specific and this leads to the possibility of doing unique chemical reactions (either intra- or intermolecular).

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