Computational Surface Science and Catalysis Group

Evangelos Smith

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: ehsmith6@wisc.edu

Address:
2733 Engineering Hall

Education:

B.S. Chemical Engineering, with High Honors
The University of Texas at Austin

Awards:

  • Bird-Stewart-Lightfoot Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (Spring 2024)
  • Roland A. Ragatz TA Award – First Place (Fall 2023)
  • Roland A. Ragatz TA Award – Third Place (Spring 2023)
  • Roland A. Ragatz TA Award – First Place (Fall 2022)
  • Weaver Fellowship (2021)

Publications:

  1. “CO–induced roughening of Cu(111): formation and detection of reactive nanoclusters on metal surfaces”, K. Papanikolaou, L. Xu, E. Smith, and M. Mavrikakis, Surface Science 754, 122665 (2025). [DOI]

    2. – 4th Surface Science Young Investigator Best Paper Award.

  2. “Moiré Patterns in Pt Overlayers on Gold: A Graph Neural Network Interatomic Potential Study”, T. Wolter, E. Smith, R. Schimmenti, J. Schiøtz, K. W. Jacobsen, and M. Mavrikakis, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128, 19357 (2024). [DOI]

  3. “Actuating Liquid Crystals Rapidly and Reversibly by using Chemical Catalysis”, H. Yu, J. I. Gold, T. J. Wolter, N. Bao, E. Smith, H. A. Zhang, R. J. Twieg, M. Mavrikakis, N. L. Abbott, Advanced Materials 36, 2309605 (2024). [DOI]

  4. “Synthesis and Examination of Alkoxycyanobiphenyl Mesogens with a Single Fluorine Atom at Specific Locations in the Tail”, K. Agrahari, T. J. Wolter, E. Smith, N. L. Abbott, M. Mavrikakis, J. D. Mighion, and R. J. Twieg, Liquid Crystals 51, 1496 (2024). [DOI]

  5. “Gas-phase microactuation using kinetically controlled surface states of ultrathin catalytic sheets”, N. Bao, Q. Liu, M. F. Reynolds, M. Figueras, E. Smith, W. Wang, M. C. Cao, D. A. Muller, M. Mavrikakis, I. Cohen, P. L. McEuen, and N. L. Abbott, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2221740120 (2023). [DOI]