Physics and chemistry of interfaces /
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| Language: | English |
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH,
[2003]
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| Series: | Physics textbook.
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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.