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This will be the first book to cover the basic scientific principles underlying the field of
surfaces and interfaces. It will prepare students and allow researchers to address issues in
fields as diverse as biomaterials, microelectronics, adhesion and polymer science.
Fundamental understanding of kinetics, thermodynamics and chemical bonding will be
illustrated in surface reconstruction, wetting, nucleation and catalysis. Phenomena such as
surface tension, surface phase equilibria, adhesion and adsorption will be fully explained,
and the power and limitations of surface characterization techniques will be discussed,
including spectroscopic characterization, contact angle and thermal desorption.
1. Introduction to Interfaces
2. Structure and Defects of Periodically Arranged Materials
3. Surface Structure
4. Surface and Interface Thermodynamics
a. Basic concept of surface tension - a mechanical view of the surface as a
stretchable membrane under tension
b. Combined effects of phase equilibrium with surface work - control of vapor
pressure, nucleation, and size and shape of objects by surface tension
c. Interfacial tension, adhesion, equilibrium shapes of contacting media, contact
angles and capillary effects
d. Multicomponent media: The enrichment of solution components at surfaces -
from metal alloys to surfactants in aqueous
5. Equilibrium Adsorption at Solid Surfaces
6. Surface Dynamics
7. Electrical Properties and Related Phemomena
a. Fundamentals of surface electrical properties
b. Surface characterization by electron spectroscopies -- tools for
surface/interface characterization
8. Surface Chemical Bonding
9. Catalysis at Surfaces
10. Forces at the Nanoscale
a. Electrical basis of long-range forces
b. Forces between macroscopic objects
c. Colloidal systems