Physical adsorption : forces and phenomena

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Physical adsorption : forces and phenomena

L.W. Bruch, Milton W. Cole, Eugene Zaremba

(International series of monographs on chemistry, 33)

Clarendon Press, c1997

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Physical adsorption involves atomic or molecular films bound to surfaces by less than 0.5eV per particle (10 kcal/mole). This subject has attracted wide interest because these films exhibit behaviour characteristic of two-dimensional matter. The phase diagram of these films are diverse and often rich in structure because of the competing energy and length scales of the two interactions involved in this probelm: the mutual intercation between adsorped molecules and the force binding each molecule to the surface. This book describes the authors current understanding of these phenomena from a fundamental perspective. After explining the microscopic origin of these forces in terms of the constituent electrons, the text describes how statistical mechanical theory and/or computer simulation employ these forces to calculate the structural and dynamical properties of the films. Throughout the book, comparison is made with many relevant experiments. Unique in its field, this book will be of interest to students and both academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, engineering and physics.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. Monolayer Physics
  • 2. Interactions
  • 3. Monolayer structures
  • 4. Monolayer films: theoretical context
  • 5. Many-body theory of monolayers
  • 6. Monolayer examples
  • Appendices
  • A. Parameters of the 3D phases
  • B. Thermodynamic Analysis
  • C. Surface Response Function
  • D. Derivation of the fragment formula
  • E. Adatom-substrate dispersion energies
  • F. 2D Fourier transforms
  • G. Lattice dynamics examples
  • H. Systems of units
  • Index

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  • NCID
    BA30060661
  • ISBN
    • 0198556381
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford [England]
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 340 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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