Physical adsorption involves atomic or molecular films bound to surfaces by less than 0.5eV per particle (10 kcal/mole). This subject has attracted wide interest because these films exhibit behaviour characteristic of two-dimensional matter. The phase diagram of these films are diverse and often rich in structure because of the competing energy and length scales of the two interactions involved in this probelm: the mutual intercation between adsorped molecules and
the force binding each molecule to the surface. This book describes the authors current understanding of these phenomena from a fundamental perspective. After explining the microscopic origin of these forces in terms of the constituent electrons, the text describes how statistical mechanical theory
and/or computer simulation employ these forces to calculate the structural and dynamical properties of the films. Throughout the book, comparison is made with many relevant experiments.
Unique in its field, this book will be of interest to students and both academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, engineering and physics.
- ISBN10 0486457672
- ISBN13 9780486457673
- Publish Date 30 March 2007 (first published 27 February 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 340
- Language English