Assistant Professor Lim Kok Hwa

Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 637459

Tel: (65) 6514 1909
Fax: (65) 6794 7553
Email: kokhwa@ntu.edu.sg

Education:

B.Sc. (Hons, 1) National University of Singapore

M. Sc. (Chem. Engr.) National University of Singapore

Ph.D. Technical University of Munich

• Heterogeneous catalytic reactions and surface sciences

• Computational chemistry and material sciences

• Density functional calculations

• Thermodynamics and kinetics

• K. H. Lim , K. M. Neyman, N. Rösch. Destabilization of adsorbed CO on the Pd(111) surface by subsurface carbon: Density functional studies. Submitted.
• K. H. Lim , L. V. Moskaleva, N. Rösch. The surface composition of materials used as catalysts for methanol steam reforming: A thermodynamic analysis. ChemPhysChem, 7 (2006) 1802-1812.
• K. H. Lim , Z.-X. Chen, K. M. Neyman, N. Rösch. Comparative theoretical study of formaldehyde decomposition on the PdZn, Cu and Pd surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. B, 110 (2006) 14890-14897.
• K. H. Lim , Z.-X. Chen, K. M. Neyman, N. Rösch. Adsorption of acrolein on single-crystal silver surfaces: Density functional Studies. Chem. Phys. Lett. 420 (2006) 60-64.
• Del Vitto, G. Pacchioni, K. H. Lim, N. Rösch, J.-M. Antonietti, M. Michalski, U. Heiz, H. Jones. Gold atoms and dimers on Amorphous SiO 2: Optical properties calculation and cavity ringdown spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (2005) 19876-19884.
• J.-M. Antonietti, M. Michalski, U. Heiz, H. Jones, K. H. Lim, N. Rösch, A. Del Vitto, G. Pacchioni. Optical adsorption spectra of gold atoms deposited on SiO 2 from cavity ringdown spectroscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 213402/1-4.
• Z.-X. Chen, K. H. Lim, K. M. Neyman, N. Rösch. The effect of steps on the decomposition of CH 3O at PdZn alloy surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (2005) 4568-4574.
• Z.-X. Chen, K. H. Lim, K. M. Neyman, N. Rösch. Density functional study of methoxide decomposition on PdZn(100). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6 (2004) 4499-4504.
• Z.-X. Chen, K. M. Neyman, K. H. Lim, N. Rösch. CH 3O decomposition on PdZn(111), Pd(111) and Cu(111). A theoretical study. Langmuir 20 (2004) 8068-8077.

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