Subprojects
Project area A:
| A1 | Quantum chemical calculations of the electronic structure and reactivity of mono- and bicentered vanadium oxide clusters (van Wüllen) |
| A2 | Transition metal oxides in the gas phase (Schwarz/Schröder) |
| A3 | Structure, stability und reactivity of VmOn-/0/+-clusters (m≤10) in the gas phase (Asmis/Wöste) |
| A4 | DFT calculations on structure, vibrational spectra and reactivity of different vanadium oxide aggregates (Sauer) |
Project area B:
| B1 | Structure-reactivity relations of vanadium oxide aggregates supported on ordered transition metal oxide surfaces (Freund/Shaikhutdinov) |
| B2 | Partial oxidation of small alkane molecules using microscopic amounts of VxOy-catalysts (Schlögl/Hess/Su) |
| B3 | Dehydrogenation and partial oxidation of short alkanes (Dingerdissen/Kondratenko) |
| B4 | Synthesis of VOx doped SiO2- and ZrO2-aerogels and cryogels and oxygen exchange studies using 18O-isotope (Kemnitz) |
| B5 | Synthesis and reactivity of model systems for the active sites of vanadium oxide catalysts (Limberg) |
| B6 | Microkinetic modeling of the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane for the analysis of structure-activity relationships (Schomäcker) |
| B7 | Technical V2O5/TiO2-model catalysts: Preparation, and investigation of interaction between active component and support (Schubert) |
Project area C:
| C1 | Electronic structure and adsorption mechanism of ordered surfaces of oxides of vanadium, molybdenum and niobium (Kuhlenbeck/Freund) |
| C2 | Geometric and electronic structure of oxide surfaces and adsorbed clusters (Niehus) - finished |
| C3 | Atomic beam diffraction and low temperature STM investigations of oxide surfaces and thin oxide films (Rieder/Theis/Moresco) - finished. |
| C4 | Preparation and characterization of transition metal oxide single crystals (Ploog/Hucho) |
| C5 | Periodic DFT calculations on structure, dynamics and reactivity of vanadium oxide aggregates (Ganduglia-Pirovano/Sauer) |
| C6 | Ab initio cluster models for the structure and reactivity of vanadium oxide and vanadium phosphate surfaces (Hermann) |
| C7 | Adsorption and reaction of unsaturated hydrocarbons on vanadium oxide surfaces (Widdra) - finished |
| C8 | Structure determination of VOx surfaces, thin films and interfaces using scanned-energy mode photoelectron diffraction (Woodruff/Sauer) |
| C10 | Unoccupied electronic states of transition metal oxide surfaces and deposited clusters (Manzke) |