Surface Characterization Methods: Principles, Techniques, and Applications

Series: Surfactant Science (v. 87)

The book, comprising a series of monographs by contemporary experts, outlines the underlying scientific principles and experimental techniques for a broad sample of discrete surface analysis techniques. The assembled material draws heavily from cornerstones of physical and analytical chemistry. Specific themes such as surface energies, electrokinetic characterization, van der Waals interactions, wetting behavior, self-assembly, adsorption behavior, mass spectroscopy, and scattering methodologies are described within the general context of surface analysis.

The book is intended to serve as a resource text and also to aid the active researcher in solving surface analysis problems that may arise in a variety of circumstances.