Professor Education: B.A., Oxford University, U.K. (1974); Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1979) Awards: Chemistry Department Milton Harris Teaching Award 1990, 1995 "Best Shop Note of 1997 Award" from the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, 1997) Email: philip.watson@oregonstate.edu Office: Gilbert 042 Phone: (541) 737-6740 Fax: (541) 737-2062 Research group web site: http://www.chemistry.oregonstate.edu/personalhomepages/watson/home.htm

Research in Dr. Watson's group centers on the investigation of surface chemistry phenomena, particularly applied to problems in materials science and catalysis. Because of the widespread occurrence of surface effects in microelectronics, catalysis, corrosion, groundwater pollution and many biological processes, a training in surface chemistry opens up doors to a career in many scientific disciplines. Our present research features in-situ investitation of the growth of thin films using the atomic force microscope (AFM) (in collaboration with Dr. Keszler), AFM studies of crystal dissolution and the surface properties of ionic liquids (environmentally friendly solvents) in collaboration with Prof. Kenneth Seddon, Queen's University, Belfast.

Representative Publications

• Probing liquid surfaces using direct recoil and ion scattering spectrometries, Recent Research Developments in Chemical Physics, 2003, 4 (Pt. 2), 595-632.
• Direct Recoil and ion scattering spectrometries as probes of liquid surfaces. Ion Beam Analysis of Surfaces and Interfaces of Condensed Matter Systems, 2003, 17-57.
• The NIST Surface Structure Database - SSD Version 4, Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, 2002, 58, 338.
• Adsorbed Layers on Surfaces, Physics of Covered Solid Surfaces, Landolt-Boernstein Vol. III/42, Vol. III/42, Part 1, Chapter 4.1, 1-122, 2002.
• Molecular Composition and Orientation at the Surface of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Effect of Molecular Structure, 2001, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3, 2879.
• Ion Scattering and Recoiling from Liquid Surfaces, J. Chem. Phys., 1997, 107, 8899.