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1. “Oxidation of Size-Selected Soot Aerosol Particles: Oxygen Pressure Dependence.” A. Nienow, J. T. Roberts, M.R. Zachariah, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, submitted.

2. “Zirconium Oxide CVD on Si(100) from Zirconium Nitrate: Growth Kinetics and Film Microstructure.” D. J. Burleson, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter, S. A. Campbell, N. Hoilien, C. J. Taylor, Chemistry of Materials, submitted.

3. “Pressure-Dependent Kinetics of Acetone Uptake by Sulfuric Acid: Evidence for a Second-Order Heterogeneous Reaction.” R. R. Michelsen, J. T. Roberts. Atmospheric Environment, submitted.

4. “Zirconium Oxide CVD on Si(100) from Zirconium Nitrate: Growth Kinetics and Film Microstructure.” D. J. Burleson, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter, S. A. Campbell, N. Hoilien, C. J. Taylor, Chemistry of Materials, submitted.

5. “Kinetics of Diesel Particle Oxidation: A Tandem DMA Study.” K. J. Higgins, H. Jung, D. B. Kittelson, J. T. Roberts, M. R. Zachariah. Environmental Science and Technology, 2003, 37, 1949-1954.

6. “Combinatorial Chemical Vapor Deposition : Achieving Compositional Spreads of Titanium, Tin and Hafnium Oxides by Balancing Reactor Fluid Dynamics and Deposition Kinetics.” R. C. Smith, N. Hoilien, J. Chien, S. A. Campbell, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter. Chemistry of Materials, 2002, 14, 1269-1276.

7. “Surface Chemistry of TiCl4 on Clean and Hydrogen Modified W(110): Identification of Surface Intermediates.” A. Sandell, M.P. Andersson, A. J. Jaworowski, J. T. Roberts, P. Uvdal. Surface Science, 2002, 521, 129-138.

8. “Adsorption and Reaction of Zirconium (IV) Nitrate on Polycrystalline Zirconia: The Decomposition Mechanism and Its Relevance to Chemical Vapor Deposition.” D. R. Burleson, W. L. Gladfelter, S. A. Campbell, J. T. Roberts. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2002, 149, F131-F138.

9. “Pressure-Dependent Kinetics of Acetone Uptake by Sulfuric Acid: Evidence for a Second-Order Heterogeneous Reaction.” R. R. Michelsen, J. T. Roberts. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, submitted.

10. “Combinatorial Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metal Dioxides using Anhydrous Metal Nitrates.” R. C. Smith, N. Hoilien, J. Roberts, S. A. Campbell, W. L. Gladfelter. Chemistry of Materials, 2002, 14, 474-476.

11. “A Study of CVD Growth Kinetics and Film Microstructure of Zirconium Dioxide from Zirconium tetra-tert-Butoxide.” D. J. Burleson, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter, S. A. Campbell. Chemistry of Materials, 2002, 14, 1269-1276.

12. “Size-Selected Nanoparticle Chemistry: Kinetics of Soot Oxidation.” K. J. Higgins, H. Jung, D. B. Kittelson, J. T. Roberts, M. R. Zachariah. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2002, 106, 96-103.

13. “Zirconium Oxide CVD on Si(100) from Zirconium (IV) tert-Butoxide and Zirconium (IV) Nitrate: Growth Kinetics and Film Morphology.” D. Burleson, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter, S. A. Campbell, R. C. Smith. Ryan C. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (Fundamental Gas-Phase and Surface Chemistry of Vapor-Phase Deposition II), 2001, 13, 144-151.

14. “An Ab Initio Electronic Structure Study of Methyl Adsorption and Reaction on Cluster Models for the Diamond Surface.” R. C. Brown, C. J. Cramer, J. T. Roberts. Diamond and Related Materials, 2001, 10, 39-47.

15. “Observation of Precursor Control over Film Stoichiometry During the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Amorphous TixSi1-xO2 Films.” R. C. Smith, C. J. Taylor, J. Roberts, S. A. Campbell, M. Tiner, R. Hegde, C. Hobbs, W. L. Gladfelter. Chemistry of Materials, 2000, 12, 2822-2824.

16. “Low Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition of ZrO2 on Si(100) Using Anhydrous Zirconium(IV) Nitrate.” R. C. Smith, N. Hoilien, C. J. Taylor, T. Ma, S. A. Campbell, J. T. Roberts, M. Copel, D. A. Buchanan, M. Gribelyuk, W. L. Gladfelter. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2000, 147, 3472-3476.

17. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of the Oxides of Titanium, Zirconium and Hafnium for Use as High-k Materials in Microelectronic Devices. A Carbon-Free Precursor for the Synthesis of Hafnium Dioxide.” R. C. Smith, T. Ma, N. Hoilien, L. Y. Tsung, M. J. Bevan, L. Colombo, J. Roberts, S. A. Campbell, W. L. Gladfelter. Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics, 2000, 10, 105-114.

18. “Chemical Reactions of Organic Molecules Adsorbed at Ice 2: Chloride Substitution in 2-Methyl-2-Propanol.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts. Langmuir, 2000, 16, 3244-3248.

19. “Chemical Reactions of Organic Molecules Adsorbed at Ice 1: Chlorine Addition to Propene.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2000, 104, 978-992.

20. “Microstructure Evolution in Diamond CVD: Computer Simulations of 111 Surface Site Formation on a Growing Diamond-100 Surface.” R. C. Brown, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2000, 104, 8420-8429.

21. “A Tale of Two Precursors: UHV-CVD of TiO2 from Titanium Nitrate and Titanium Isopropoxide.” W. L. Gladfelter, C. J. Taylor, D. C. Gilmer, D. G. Colombo, G. D. Wilk, S. A. Campbell, J. Roberts. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1999, 567, 349-354.

22. “Chemistry at and Near the Surface of Liquid Sulfuric Acid: A Kinetic, Thermodynamic, and Mechanistic Analysis of Heterogeneous Reactions of Acetone.” J. L. Duncan, L. R. Schindler, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 1999, 103, 7247-7259.

23. “Interaction of Acetonitrile with the Surfaces of Amorphous and Crystalline Ice.” J. E. Schaff, J. T. Roberts. Langmuir, 1999, 15, 7232-7237.

24. “Adsorbed states of Acetonitrile and Chloroform on Amorphous and Crystalline Ice Studied with X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.” J. E. Schaff, J. T. Roberts. Surface Science, 1999, 426, 384-394.

25. “A Model for Simulating the Development of Morphology During Diamond CVD.” R. C. Brown, J. T. Roberts. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1999, 98-23, 383-387.

26. “Titanium Oxide CVD from Titanium (IV) Nitrate and Titanium (IV) Isopropoxide: Growth Kinetics, Film Morphology, and Precursor Specific Effects.” C. J. Taylor, D. Gilmer, W. L. Gladfelter, S. Campbell, J. T. Roberts. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1999, 98-23, 394-399.

27. “Does Chemistry Really Matter in the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Titanium Dioxide? Precursor and Kinetic Effects on the Microstructure of Polycrystalline Films.” C. J. Taylor, D. Gilmer, D. Colombo, S. Campbell, J. T. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1999, 121, 5220--5229.

28. “Chemistry at the Surfaces of Ice and Sulfuric Acid: Toward an Understanding of Adsorption at Molecular Solids.” J. T. Roberts. Accounts of Chemical Research, 1998, 31, 415-421.

29. “Low Temperature CVD of Crystalline Titanium Dioxide Films Using Tetranitratotitanium(IV).” D. C. Gilmer, D. G. Colombo, C. J. Taylor, J. Roberts, G. Haugstad, S. A. Campbell, H. S. Kim, G. D. Wilk, M. A. Gribelyuk, W. L. Gladfelter. Chemical Vapor Deposition, 1998, 4, 9-11.

30. “A New sulfate Mediated Reaction: Conversion of Acetone to Trimethylbenzene in the Presence of Liquid Sulfuric Acid.” J. L. Duncan, L. R. Schindler, J. T. Roberts. Geophysical Research Letters, 1998, 25, 631-634.

31. “The Adsorption of Acetone on Thin Films of Amorphous and Crystalline Ice.” J. E. Schaff, J. T. Roberts. Langmuir, 1998, 14, 1478-1486.

32. “Microstructure of Al Contacts on GaAs.” I. Karpov, A. Franciosi, C. Taylor, J. Roberts, W. L. Gladfelter. Applied Physics Letters, 1997, 71, 3090-3092.

33. “An Ab Initio Study of Hydrogen Abstraction from Cluster Models for the Diamond Surface.” R. C. Brown, C. J. Cramer, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1997, 101, 9574-9580.

34. “Blowing Hot and Cold: an Oscillating Surface Reaction.” J. T. Roberts. Proceedings of the 1995 American Vacuum Society Symposium on Educational Outreach, (Patricia A. Thiel and David E. Fowler, Eds.) American Vacuum Society, New York, NY 1997.

35. “The Formation of HCl•6 H2O from Ice and HCl under Ultrahigh Vacuum.” J. Graham, J. T. Roberts. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 1997, 37, 139-148.

36. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Aluminum from Dimethylaluminumhydride Dimethylethylamine (DMAH-DMEA) and Dimethylethylaminealane (DMEAA).” C. Taylor, J. T. Roberts, W. Gladfelter, A. Franciosi. Advanced Metallization and Interconnect Systems for ULSI Applications, (R. Havermann, J. Schmitz, H. Komiyama, K. Tsubouchi, Eds.) Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA 1997, 111-115.

37. “Properties of Crystalline Sulfuric Acid in Ultrahigh Vacuum: Incongruent Melting to the Liquid Azeotrope and its Slow Recrystallization.” L. R. Schindler, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 19582-19586.

38. “The 367 nm Photochemistry of OClO Thin Films and OClO Adsorbed on Ice.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts, L. D. Anderson, V. H. Grassian. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 19551-19558.

39. “Toward an Understanding of the Surface Chemical Properties of Ice: Differences between the Amorphous and Crystalline Surfaces.” J. E. Schaff, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 14151-14160.

40. “Surface Chemistry of TiCl4 on W(100).” W. Chen, J. T. Roberts. Surface Science, 1996, 359, 93-106.

41. “The Uptake of Chlorine Dioxide by Model PSC's under Stratospheric Conditions.” L. A. Brown, V. Vaida, D. R. Hanson, J. D. Graham, and J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 3121-3125.

42. “The Uptake of Chlorine Dioxide by Model Polar Stratospheric Cloud Surfaces: Ultrahigh Vacuum Studies.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts, L. Brown, V. Vaida. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996, 100, 3115-3120.

43. “The Growth and Characterization of Sulfuric Acid under Ultrahigh Vacuum.” Elizabeth D. Guldan, L. R. Schindler, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1995, 99, 16059-16066.

44. “Ultrahigh Vacuum Studies of Ice and Sulfuric Acid Surfaces.” J. T. Roberts. Proceedings of the 1995 SPIE Meeting on Laser Techniques for Surface Science II, 125-134.

45. “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of a Thermal Plasma Used for CVD of a Diamond Film.” Peter G. Greuel, Douglas W. Ernie, J. T. Roberts. 12th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Proceedings Volume 4 (J. V. Heberlein, D. W. Ernie, and J. T. Roberts, Eds.) 1995, 2209-2214.

46. “Adsorption and Reaction of WF6 on W(100).” W. Chen, J. T. Roberts. Surface Science, 1995, 324, 169-184.

47. “Interaction of Hydrogen Chloride with Crystalline and Amorphous Ice Films: Implications for the Mechanisms of Ice-Catalyzed Reactions.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts. Geophysical Research Letters, 1995, 22, 251-254.

48. “The Interaction of CCl4 with the Surface of Amorphous Ice.” J. L. Blanchard, J. T. Roberts. Langmuir, 1994, 10, 3303-3310.

49. “ Structure Sensitivity in the Surface Chemistry of Ice: Acetone Adsorption on Amorphous and Crystalline Ice Films.” J. E. Schaff, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1994, 98, 6900-6902.

50. “Interaction of Hydrogen Chloride with an Ultrathin Ice Film: Observation of Adsorbed and Absorbed States.” J. D. Graham, J. T. Roberts. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1994, 98, 5974-5983.

51. “Mass Spectroscopic Analysis of a High Pressure, Inductively Coupled Plasma During Diamond Film Growth.” P. G. Greuel, H. J. Yoon, D. W. Ernie, J. T. Roberts. Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, 1994, 334, 141-146.

52. “Adsorption and Reaction of TiCl4 on W(100).” W. Chen and J. T. Roberts. Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, 1994, 334, 317-322.

53. “Temperature Programmed Desorption as a Probe for Adsorbate Structure: Desorption of a Mixed TiCl4, SiCl4, CCl4 Adlayer.” W. Chen, J. T. Roberts. Surface Science, 1993, 298, L157-L162.

54. “The Rate-Limiting Step for Olefin Combustion on Silver: Experiment Compared to Theory.” J. T. Roberts, R. J. Madix, W. W. Crew. Journal of Catalysis, 1993, 141, 300-307.

55. “The Coadsorption of Water and Molecular Oxygen on Ag(110): Evidence for Water Desorption via Dissociation-Induced Displacement.” J. T. Roberts, R. J. Madix. Surface Science, 1992, 273, 121-128.

56. “Surface-Mediated Cycloaddition: 1,4-Addition of Atomically Adsorbed Oxygen to 1,3-Butadiene on Ag(110).” J. T. Roberts, A. J. Capote, R. J. Madix. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991, 113, 9848-9851.

57. “Partial Oxidation of Hydrocarbons over a Model Silver Catalyst. Conversion of 1-Butene to Maleic Anhydride by Atomically Adsorbed Oxygen on Ag(110).” J. T. Roberts, A. J. Capote, R. J. Madix. Surface Science, 1991, 253, 13-23.

58. “Reactions of Weak Organic Acids with Oxygen Atoms on Ag(110): Facile and Selective Conversion of Cyclohexene to Benzene.” J. T. Roberts, R. J. Madix. Surface Science, 1990, 226, L71-L78.

59. “Adsorbate Thermodynamics as a Determinant of Reaction Mechanism.” B. C. Wiegand, C. M. Friend, J. T. Roberts. Langmuir, 1989, 5, 1292-1298.

60. “Reactions of Molecularly Adsorbed Oxygen on Metals: Carbon Monoxide and Sulfur Dioxide Reactions with Oxygen on Ag(110).” A. J. Capote, J. T. Roberts, R. J. Madix. Surface Science, 1989, 209, L151-L156.

61. “Epoxidation of Olefins on Silver: Conversion of Norbornene to Norbornene Oxide on Ag(110).” J. T. Roberts, R. J. Madix, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988, 110, 8540-8541.

62. “Deduction of Reaction Mechanisms for Surface Processes: Desulfurization of Organic Sulfides and Thiols on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Accounts of Chemical Research, 1988, 21, 394-400.

63. “Reactions of Ethanethiol on Mo(110): Formation and Decomposition of a Surface Alkyl Thiolate.” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1988, 92, 5205-5213.

64. “Desulfurization of Ethylene Sulfide on Mo(110). The Roles of Ring Size and Strain in Adsorbate Reaction Selectivity.” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Surface Science, 1988, 202, 405-432.

65. “Vibrational Studies of 1-Propanethiol on Mo(110). Spectroscopic Evidence for Low Temperature Thiolate Formation.” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Surface Science, 1988, 198, L321-L328.

66. “Spectroscopic Identification of Surface Phenyl Thiolate and Benzyne on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of Chemical Physics, 1988, 88, 7172-7180.

67. “Ring Size and Strain as a Control of Reaction Selectivity: Ethylene Sulfide on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987, 109, 7899-7900.

68. “Coadsorption as a Probe of Mechanism: Cyclic Sulfides and Straight Chain Thiols on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987, 109, 4423-4424.

69. “The Reactions of Thiophene on Mo(110) and Mo(110)-p(2?2)-S.” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Surface Science, 1987, 186, 201-218.

70. “Desulfurization of Saturated C3S Molecules on Mo(110): The Effect of Ring Strain.” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987, 109, 3872-3882.

71. “C-S Bond Activation on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 1987, 5, 660-661.

72. “Chemistry of Sulfur-Containing Heterocycles on Mo(110) and Sulfided Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Proceedings of American Chemical Society Symposium on Fundamental Chemistry of Promoters and Poisons in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Petroleum Division, American Chemical Society National Meeting, New York, NY, 1986.

73. “Model Hydrodesulfurization Reactions: Saturated C4S Molecules on Mo(110).” J. T. Roberts, C. M. Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986, 108, 7204-7210.