Description: Thanks to advanced experimental techniques, scientists now have a much improved understanding of the behavior of surfaces and interfaces. This understanding has led to improvements in semiconductor processing, thin film growth, corrosion, catalysis, and other industrial applications. In this valuable text the authors focus on the physical and chemical properties of the surface in a reacting system and attempt to identity the surface properties that influence interfacial reactions. Some of the topics they consider are crystallite morphology, interface equilibria, adsorption and desorption kinetics, binding states and adsorbate structures, interface reactions between metals and support materials, electronic properties of nonmetal catalysts, metal oxide catalysis, surface properties of grain boundaries, and metal-electrolyte interfaces. The book will be invaluable not only to research scientists, but also to students of materials science, solid-state chemistry, and catalysis.

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