Physics and chemistry of interfaces /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butt, Hans-Jürgen
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Graf, Kh. (Karlheinz), Kappl, Michael, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2003]
Series:Physics textbook.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Liquid surfaces
  • Microscopic picture of the liquid surface
  • Surface tension
  • Equation of Young and Laplace
  • Curved liquid surfaces
  • Derivation of the Young-Laplace equation
  • Applying the Young-Laplace equation
  • Techniques to measure the surface tension
  • The Kelvin equation
  • Capillary condensation
  • Nucleation theory
  • Thermodynamics of interfaces
  • The surface excess
  • Fundamental thermodynamic relations
  • Internal energy and Helmholtz energy
  • Equilibrium conditions
  • Location of the interface
  • Gibbs energy and definition of the surface tension
  • Free surface energy, interfacial enthalpy and Gibbs surface energy
  • The surface tension of pure liquids
  • Gibbs adsorption isotherm
  • Derivation
  • System of two components
  • Experimental aspects
  • The Marangoni effect
  • The electric double layer
  • Poisson-Boltzmann theory of the diffuse double layer
  • The Poisson-Boltzmann equation
  • Planar surfaces
  • The full one-dimensional case
  • The Grahame equation
  • Capacity of the diffuse electric double layer
  • Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann theory
  • Limitations of the Poisson-Boltzmann theory
  • The Stern layer
  • The Gibbs free energy of the electric double layer
  • Effects at charged interfaces
  • Electrocapillarity
  • Theory
  • Measurement of electrocapillarity
  • Examples of charged surfaces
  • Mercury
  • Silver iodide
  • Oxides
  • Mica
  • Semiconductors
  • Measuring surface charge densities
  • Potentiometric colloid titration
  • Capacitances
  • Electrokinetic phenomena: The zeta potential.