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The Sibener Group celebrating Sarah W's graduation (from left to right): Francisco, Jasper, Josh, Liz, Rachael, Steve, Sarah W, Van, Helena, Caleb, Kevin, Yue, Michael, and Blake. June 5^th, 2024

Welcome to the laboratories of Professor Steven Sibener. Our interests include chemical physics, physical chemistry, nanoscience, surface science, and materials research. This group web page is a survey of who we are and what we are about. Our current affiliations include the Department of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and the Institute for Molecular Engineering. An additional short summary can be found in the Department of Chemistry's online brochure. For a more in-depth discussion, please feel free to contact any of us or stop by if you are ever in the Chicago area.

Science
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Surface Reaction Dynamics Interfacial Phonon Structure Gas-Surface Collisional Energy Exchange Superconducting RF Materials

Self-Organizing Molecular Systems Polymer Surface Dynamics Ice Chemistry and Molecular interactions with Frozen Ice Films Directed Self-Assembly

Supersonic Molecular Beam Epitaxy Biological Microscopy Electrochemistry and Corrosion

Sibener Group at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces

Representatives from the Sibener Group attending the Gordon Research Conference (from left
to right): Steve, Sarah B., Rachael, Michelle, Dan Killelea (former group member: tenured
faculty at Loyola University), Julia, and Becca. July 30^th, 2019

Sibener Festschrift
Steven J. Sibener honored in special Festschrift issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2nd, 2015

Click the cover above to go to the issue, or here for more information.

Funding

NSF

NIST

AFOSR

UChicago

DTRA