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- An updated fourth edition of the text that provides an understanding of chemical transformations and the formation of structures at surfaces The revised and enhanced fourth edition of Surface Science covers all the essential techniques and phenomena that are relevant to the field.
- About the Author: Kurt W. Kolasinski, PhD, is Professor of Physical Chemistry at West Chester University.
- 528 Pages
- Science, Chemistry
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"The tale of John Yates pushing a copy of Robert and McKee's Chemistry of the Metal-Gas Interface into my hands recedes from the Introduction to the Preface. JTY has passed but his legacy lives on. While Dick Zare was my Dokotorvater, John was my scientific father with some of the ups and downs that accompany meeting someone when you are still an ignorant head-strong kid. This is a time to reflect on how fortunate I was to be able to meet all the luminaries of surface science who paraded through the lab. To recall how I very earnestly explained the infrared reflection absorption spectrum of the rhodium gem dicarbonyl species to an interested listener at the Surface Science Center dedication ceremony. Only to be told afterward that that interested (and very polite) listener was Bob Eischens, who helped invent the field. What a privilege it was to work with, among others, Tom Beebe, Mark Alvey, Ferenc Bozso, John Russell, John Crowell, Jingguan Chen, Kevin Uram, Pat Taylor, and Mike Trenary"--Book Synopsis
An updated fourth edition of the text that provides an understanding of chemical transformations and the formation of structures at surfaces
The revised and enhanced fourth edition of Surface Science covers all the essential techniques and phenomena that are relevant to the field. The text elucidates the structural, dynamical, thermodynamic and kinetic principles concentrating on gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces. These principles allow for an understanding of how and why chemical transformations occur at surfaces. The author (a noted expert on in the field) combines the required chemistry, physics and mathematics to create a text that is accessible and comprehensive.
The fourth edition incorporates new end-of-chapter exercises, the solutions to which are available on-line to demonstrate how problem solving that is relevant to surface science should be performed. Each chapter begins with simple principles and builds to more advanced ones. The advanced topics provide material beyond the introductory level and highlight some frontier areas of study. This updated new edition:
- Contains an expanded treatment of STM and AFM as well as super-resolution microscopy
- Reviews advances in the theoretical basis of catalysis and the use of activity descriptors for rational catalyst design
- Extends the discussion of two-dimensional solids to reflect remarkable advances in their growth and characterization
- Delves deeper into the surface science of electrochemistry and charge transfer reactions
- Updates the "Frontiers and Challenges" sections at the end of each chapter as well as the list of references
Written for students, researchers and professionals, the fourth edition of Surface Science offers a revitalized text that contains the tools and a set of principles for understanding the field.
Instructor support material, solutions and PPTs of figures, are available at http: //booksupport.wiley.com
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SURFACE SCIENCE Foundations of Catalysis and Nanoscience
Fourth Edition
An updated fourth edition of the text that provides an understanding of chemical transformations and the formation of structures at surfaces
The revised and enhanced fourth edition of Surface Science covers all the essential techniques and phenomena that are relevant to the field. The text elucidates the structural, dynamical, thermodynamic and kinetic principles concentrating on gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces. These principles allow for an understanding of how and why chemical transformations occur at surfaces. The author (a noted expert in the field) combines the required chemistry, physics and mathematics to create a text that is accessible and comprehensive.
The fourth edition incorporates new end-of-chapter exercises, the solutions to which are available on-line to demonstrate how problem solving that is relevant to surface science should be performed. Each chapter begins with simple principles and builds to more advanced ones. The advanced topics provide material beyond the introductory level and highlight some frontier areas of study.
This updated new edition:
- Contains an expanded treatment of STM and AFM as well as super-resolution microscopy
- Reviews advances in the theoretical basis of catalysis and the use of activity descriptors for rational catalyst design
- Extends the discussion of two-dimensional solids to reflect remarkable advances in their growth and characterization
- Delves deeper into the surface science of electrochemistry and charge transfer reactions
- Updates the "Frontiers and Challenges" sections at the end of each chapter as well as the list of references
Written for students, researchers and professionals, the fourth edition of Surface Science offers a revitalized text that contains the tools and a set of principles for understanding the field.
About the Author
Kurt W. Kolasinski, PhD, is Professor of Physical Chemistry at West Chester University. His research concentrates on the study of dynamical processes at the surfaces of metals and semiconductors with a special emphasis on structure formation and laser-surface interactions. He is responsible for teaching Theoretical and Experimental Physical Chemistry as well as Surface Science.