Surfaces

Product Description

This primer provides an introduction to the subject of surfaces at the level of undergraduates & first year postgraduates. There are four chapters the first concerns basic thermodynamic material used to understand the properties of surfaces including; surface tension Gibbs adsorption surface pressure & surface phase equilibria surfactants & micelles wetting detergency & contact angle. The second chapter concentrates on gas adsorbtion at solid surfaces & covers topics including adsorbtion Langmuir isotherms heats of adsorbtion BET isotherms physisorbtion chemisorbtion precursor adsorbtion kinetics well-defined surfaces UHV surface sensitivity & selectivity surface diffusion & electrons interacting with matter. Chapter three then outlines the physico- chemical principles of XPS AES LEED STM AFM work function measurements UPS TPD molecular beams HREELS & PAIRS & the types of fundamental surface information each of these techniques provides. The final chapter contains a series of worked examples & problems bringing together the various strands developed in Chapters 1-3 in order to elucidate surface phenomena. The book is unique in its mix of Classical & Modern surface science & should be relevant to physicists chemists & material scientists.