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Thomas Bligaard

Senior Staff Scientist

Deputy Director for Theory, Task leader for method development

bligaard@slac.stanford.edu

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Press - February 12, 2016 $7M Grant from Villum Foundation to SUNCAT Center	Announcements - December 01, 2014 Fundamental Concepts in Heterogeneous Catalysis
Press - July 10, 2014 Uncertainty Gives Scientists New Confidence in Search for Novel Materials	Announcements - July 01, 2014 Pacific Coast Catalysis Society Meeting 2014
Announcements - May 07, 2013 Bligaard early career award	Announcements - July 24, 2012 Materials Genome Initiative Award
Press - January 19, 2012 Designing Chemical Catalysts: There’s an App for That

Publications

To address surface reaction network complexity using scaling relations machine learning and DFT calculations. Zachary W. Ulissi, Andrew J. Medford, Thomas Bligaard, Jens K. Nørskov . Nature Communications	mBEEF-vdW: Robust fitting of error estimation density functionals. Keld T Lundgaard, Jess Wellendorff, Johannes Voss, Karsten W Jacobsen, Thomas Bligaard . Physical Review B , 93 , 235162- . 2016.
Framework for Scalable Adsorbate–Adsorbate Interaction Models. Max J. Hoffmann, Andrew Medford, Thomas Bligaard . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C , 120 , 13087- 13094 . 2016.	Virtual Special Issue on Catalysis at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. Marek Pruski, Aaron D. Sadow, Igor I. Slowing, Christopher L. Marshall, Peter Stair, Jose Rodriguez, Alex Harris, Gabor A. Somorjai , Juergen Biener , Christopher Matranga , Congjun Wang, Joshua A. Schaidle , Daniel A. Ruddy, Gregg T. Beckham, Todd Deutsch, Shaun M. Alia , Chaitanya Narula, Steve Overbury, Todd Toops, R. Morris Bullock, Charles H. F. Peden, Yong Wang, Mark D. Allendorf, Jens Nørskov , Thomas Bligaard . ACS Catalysis , 6 , 3227- 3235 . 2016.
Toward Benchmarking in Catalysis Science: Best Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities. Thomas Bligaard, R. Morris Bullock, Charles T. Campbell, Jingguang G. Chen, Bruce C. Gates, Raymond J. Gorteg, Christopher W. Jones, William D. Jones, John R. Kitchin, Susannah L. Scott . ACS Catalysis , 6 , 2590- 2602 . 2016.	Intrinsic Selectivity and Structure Sensitivity of Rhodium Catalysts for C2+ Oxygenate Production. Nuoya Yang, Andrew J. Medford, Xinyan Liu, Felix Studt, Thomas Bligaard, Stacey F. Bent, Jens K. Nørskov . Journal of the American Chemical Society , 138 , 3705- 3714 . 2016.
Using microkinetic analysis to search for novel anhydrous formaldehyde production catalysts. Han-Jung Li, Adam C. Lausche, Andrew A. Peterson, Heine A. Hansen, Felix Studt, Thomas Bligaard . Surface Science , 641 , 105- 111 . 2015.	A benchmark database for adsorption bond energies to transition metal surfaces and comparison to selected DFT functionals. Jess Wellendorff, Trent L. Silbaugh, Delfina Garcia-Pintos, Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard, Felix Studt, Charles T. Campbell . Surface Science , 640 , 36- 44 . 2015.
Improved description of metal oxide stability: Beyond the random phase approximation with renormalized kernels. Thomas S. Jauho, Thomas Olsen, Thomas Bligaard, Kristian S. Thygesen . Physical Review B , 92 , 115140- . 2015.	From the Sabatier Principle to a Predictive Theory of Transition Metal Heterogeneous Catalysis. Andrew J. Medford, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Johannes Voss, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Felix Studt, Thomas Bligaard, Anders Nilsson, Jens K. Nørskov . Journal of Cataysis , 328 , 36- 42 . 2015.