Samuel Tenney

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3109
stenney@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Publications | Highlights

Expertise

• Hetergeneous Catalysis
• Surface Science
• Nanoscale chemical mapping and hyperspectral imaging
• s-SNOM
• nanoIR/AFM-IR/PTIR/O-PTIR
• LEEM / selected-area diffraction (LEED)
• SEM / SAM
• STM / XPS / AES / TPD / Raman
• CO₂ Capture and Conversion
• 2D materials / graphene / silicates / etc.
• Energetic Materials

Education

Ph.D. (2012): University of South Carolina

B.S. (2007): Fairmont State University

Selected Publications

• Eads CN, Boscoboinik JA, Head AR, et al (2021) Enhanced Catalysis under 2D Silica: A CO Oxidation Study. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60:10888–10894. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202013801
• Mark LO, Chen W, Eads CN, et al (2020) Confinement Effects on Furfuryl Alcohol Reactions over Porous Bilayer Silica-Modified Pd(111). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124:25437–25446. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09095
• Eads CN, Zhong J-Q, Kim D, et al (2020) Multi-modal surface analysis of porous films under operando conditions. AIP Advances 10:085109. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006220
• Mroz M, Tenney S, Savina T, Kordesch ME (2018) Thermionic emission microscopy of scandium thin film dewetting on W(100). AIP Advances 8:065114. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5039612
• Tenney SA, Lu D, He F, et al (2014) Key Structure–Property Relationships in CO2 Capture by Supported Alkanolamines. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118:19252–19258. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp507205t
• Palomino RM, Gutiérrez RA, Liu Z, et al (2017) Inverse Catalysts for CO Oxidation: Enhanced Oxide–Metal Interactions in MgO/Au(111), CeO2/Au(111), and TiO2/Au(111). ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5:10783–10791. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02744

Research Highlights

Uncovering Better Catalysts in Confined 2D Spaces

Brookhaven Lab and Small Business Partner to Advance Characterization Tools