Sir David A. King (University of Cambridge) received the Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry from the ACS. The society thus honors him for his work on the relationship between the structure of surfaces and their reactions, for example as catalysts. From these foundations, he and his group have developed new approaches to control the reaction rate and selectivity of catalytic reactions and to design new catalysts. He reported in Angewandte Chemie on a cooperative adsorbate-induced surface rearrangement and formation of nanoclusters and on mechanistic studies on the catalytic combustion and synthesis of hydrocarbons on noble metal surfaces.
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