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Name: Arthur Utz
Title: Associate Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Chemistry Department
Degrees: Ph.D. 1991 University of Wisconsin; B.S., 1983 Bradley University; Postdoctoral, 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise: Physical and Materials Chemistry

Dynamics of gas-surface reactions relevant to materials, environmental, and catalytic chemistry; laser-induced chemistry at surfaces; vibrational and translational energy as synthetic tools in materials chemistry, state-resolved gas-surface reaction dynamics.
Major Awards: UNITE Award for UndergraduateTeaching and Mentoring, NSF Career Award
E-mail: arthur.utz@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://chem.tufts.edu/faculty/utz/index.html
http://www.tufts.edu/~autz/index.html
Scholarship & Research: R. R. Smith, D. R. Killelea, D. F. DelSesto, and A. L. Utz, “Preference for Vibrational over Translational Energy in Gas Surface Reaction”, Science, 2004, 304, 992

L.B.F. Juurlink, R. R. Smith, and A. L. Utz, “The Role of Rotational Excitation in the Activated Dissociative Chemisorption of Vibrationally Excited Methane on Ni(100)”, Faraday Discussions, 2000, 117, 147

L. B. F. Juurlink, R. R. Smith, and A. L. Utz, “Controlling Surface Chemistry with Light: Spatially Resolved Deposition of Rovibrational-State-Selected Molecules”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 3327

P. R. McCabe, L. B. F. Juurlink, and A. L. Utz, “A Molecular Beam Apparatus for Eigenstate-Resolved Studies of Gas Surface Reactivity”, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 2000, 71, 1, 42

P. R. McCabe and A. L. Utz “A Low-Cost Alternative to Motorized Linear and Rotary Motion Feedthroughs”, J. Vac. Sci. Instrum. A, 1999, 17(6), 3529

L. B. F. Juurlink, P. R. McCabe, R. R. Smith, C. L. DiCologero and A. L. Utz, “Eigenstate-Resolved Studies of Gas-Surface Reactivity: CH4 ([]3) Dissociation on Ni(100)”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1999, 83, 868

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