The Chemical Physics of Surfaces

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Surface States and Surface Sites.- 1.2. Bonding of Foreign Species to the Solid Surface.- 1.3. Surface Hydration on Ionic Solids.- 1.4. Surface Heterogeneity.- 2. Space Charge Effects.- 2.1. General.- 2.2. Space Charge Effects with Reactive Surface Species.- 2.3. Electron and Hole Transfer between the Solid and Its Surface.- 3. Experimental Methods.- 3.1. Surface Measurements Based on Electrical and Optical Techniques.- 3.2. The Surface Spectroscopies.- 3.3. Chemical Measurements.- 4. The Adsorbate-Free Surface.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Theoretical Models.- 4.3. Measurements on Adsorbate-Free Ionic Solids.- 4.4. Measurements on Adsorbate-Free Covalent or Metallic Solids.- 5. Bonding of Foreign Species at the Solid Surface.- 5.1. Reconstruction and Relocation in Bonding.- 5.2. The Semiclassical Model of Bonding: The Surface Molecule.- 5.3. Quantum Models of the Adsorbate/Solid Bond.- 5.4. Measurement of Adsorbate Surface States on Covalent or Metallic Solids.- 5.5. The Chemistry of Surface States.- 5.6. The Formation of Surface State Bands.- 6. Nonvolatile Foreign Additives on the Solid Surface.- 6.1. General.- 6.2. Dispersion of Additives.- 6.3. The Cluster, the Transition between a Molecule and a Solid.- 6.4. The Control of Surface Properties with Additives.- 6.5. The Real Surface.- 7. Adsorption.- 7.1. Adsorption Isotherms and Isobars.- 7.2. Ionosorption on Semiconductors.- 7.3. Adsorption with Local Bonding.- 8. The Solid/Liquid Interface.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. Theory.- 8.3. Observations with Semiconductor Electrodes.- 8.4. Comparison of the Solid/Liquid with the Solid/Gas Interface.- 9. Photoeffects at Semiconductor Surfaces.- 9.1. General.- 9.2. Simple Hole/Electron Recombination.- 9.3. Photoadsorption and Photodesorption.- 9.4. Photocatalysis.- 9.5. Direct Excitation of Surface States by Photons.- 10. Surface Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- 10.1. General Concepts.- 10.2. Surface Sites Associated with Steps and Other Geometrical Factors.- 10.3. The Role of Acid and Basic Sites in Catalytic Reactions.- 10.4. Covalent Bonding to Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal and Cationic Sites.- 10.5. Sites in Oxidation Catalysis.- 10.6. Examples of Oxidation Catalysis.- References.- Author Index.