Re: Interfacial Science Barnes Pdf 19
Abra Pabst
Teaching interfacial science within the undergraduate curriculum represents a considerable challenge due to its interdisciplinary nature that embraces a wide range of concepts. Barnes and Gentle have delivered with effectiveness and fluency a textbook that will undoubtedly enhance such teaching activities.
Colloid and interfacial science has gained renewed importance in recent years due to its fundamental relevance to emerging nanoscience and nanotechnology. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction, not only to the key scientific concepts and physical and biological phenomena, but also to the underlying principles of useful experimental techniques.
The book develops in a well-structured manner, following the central theme of the surface and interface. It begins by assuming no prior knowledge with some general definitions and considerations. It then introduces surface thermodynamics, laying the foundation that is necessary for dealing with numerous phenomena at different interfaces between gas, liquids and solids. Finally, it switches from the physical aspects of interfacial science to the fascinating biological interface.
The field of surface chemistry started with heterogeneous catalysis pioneered by Paul Sabatier on hydrogenation and Fritz Haber on the Haber process.[3] Irving Langmuir was also one of the founders of this field, and the scientific journal on surface science, Langmuir, bears his name. The Langmuir adsorption equation is used to model monolayer adsorption where all surface adsorption sites have the same affinity for the adsorbing species and do not interact with each other. Gerhard Ertl in 1974 described for the first time the adsorption of hydrogen on a palladium surface using a novel technique called LEED.[4] Similar studies with platinum,[5] nickel,[6][7] and iron[8] followed. Most recent developments in surface sciences include the 2007 Nobel prize of Chemistry winner Gerhard Ertl's advancements in surface chemistry, specificallyhis investigation of the interaction between carbon monoxide molecules and platinum surfaces.
Surface chemistry can be roughly defined as the study of chemical reactions at interfaces. It is closely related to surface engineering, which aims at modifying the chemical composition of a surface by incorporation of selected elements or functional groups that produce various desired effects or improvements in the properties of the surface or interface. Surface science is of particular importance to the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, and geochemistry.
Relationships between the composition, structure, and chemical behavior of these surfaces are studied using ultra-high vacuum techniques, including adsorption and temperature-programmed desorption of molecules, scanning tunneling microscopy, low energy electron diffraction, and Auger electron spectroscopy. Results can be fed into chemical models or used toward the rational design of new catalysts. Reaction mechanisms can also be clarified due to the atomic-scale precision of surface science measurements.[10]
Electrochemistry is the study of processes driven through an applied potential at a solid-liquid or liquid-liquid interface. The behavior of an electrode-electrolyte interface is affected by the distribution of ions in the liquid phase next to the interface forming the electrical double layer. Adsorption and desorption events can be studied at atomically flat single crystal surfaces as a function of applied potential, time, and solution conditions using spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy[11] and surface X-ray scattering.[12][13] These studies link traditional electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry to direct observations of interfacial processes.
where R is the universal gas constant (dyne-cm/mol K), T is temperature (K), γ is the surface tension (dyne/cm or mN/m), C is the aqueous concentration (mol/cm3), and x is a coefficient equal to 1 for nonionic surfactants or for ionic surfactants with excess solution electrolyte, and equal to 2 for ionic surfactants without excess solution electrolyte. The air-water interfacial adsorption coefficient (Ki; cm) was then determined as a function of concentration:
where γ0 is the interfacial tension at C = 0 (e.g., the surface tension of pure water), and A and B are variables related to properties of the specific compound and of the homologous series, respectively. The best-fit functions were used to obtain the local-slope factors required for equation 2.
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been widely exploited in various scientific communities, ranging from physics, chemistry to biology, due to the strong confinement of light to the metal surface. For many applications, it is important that the free space photon can be coupled to SPPs in a controllable manner. In this Letter, we apply the concept of interfacial phase discontinuity for circularly polarizations on a metasurface to the design of a novel type of polarization-dependent SPP unidirectional excitation at normal incidence. Selective unidirectional excitation of SPPs along opposite directions is experimentally demonstrated at optical frequencies by simply switching the helicity of the incident light. This approach, in conjunction with dynamic polarization modulation techniques, opens gateway towards integrated plasmonic circuits with electrically reconfigurable functionalities.
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