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
Chemically selective modification of spin polarization in ultrathin ferromagnetic films: Microscopic theory and macroscopic experiment
– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(2009)
80,
052406
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.052406)
Theory of NHx +/- H Reactions on Fe{211}
– The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2009)
113,
15274
(doi: 10.1021/jp9034248)
Aromatic adsorption on metals via first-principles density functional theory
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2009)
465,
2949
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0119)
Ozonolysis of diamond.
– J Phys Condens Matter
(2009)
21,
264010
Anchoring sites for initial Au nucleation on ceo2{111}: o vacancy versus ce vacancy
– Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2009)
113,
6411
(doi: 10.1021/jp810093a)
Anchoring Sites for Initial Au Nucleation on CeO2{111}: O Vacancy versus Ce Vacancy
– The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2009)
113,
6411
(doi: 10.1021/jp810093a)
Adsorbate influence on the coercive field of ultrathin Co/Cu{1 1 0}
– Surface Science
(2009)
603,
L45
(doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2009.01.036)
Silicon oxidation by ozone.
– Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal
(2009)
21,
183001
Oxygen vacancy clusters on ceria: Decisive role of cerium f electrons
– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(2009)
79,
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.075433)
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