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Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Surfaces

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  • © 1976

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Editors:
  1. E. G. Derouane

    1. Facultés Universitaires N.-D. de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

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  2. A. A. Lucas

    1. Facultés Universitaires N.-D. de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 16)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. General Introduction to Phenomenological Models and Theory of Clean and Chemisorbed Surfaces

    1. Introduction to Phenomenological Models and Atomistic Concepts of Clean and Chemisorbed Surfaces

      • Thor Rhodin, David Adams
      Pages 1-34

    2. Introuctory Lecture : Survey of Current Ideas in the Theory of Chemisorption by Metals

      • T. B. Grimley
      Pages 35-43

  3. Theoretical Physics and Quantum Chemistry Approaches to the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Surfaces

    1. Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Surfaces

      • G. Allan
      Pages 45-79

    2. Density-Functional Approach to the Electronic Structure of Metal Surfaces and Metal-Adatom Systems

      • N. D. Lang
      Pages 81-111

    3. Chemisorption Theory, Electronic Structure, and Reactivity of Metal Surfaces

      • T. B. Grimley
      Pages 113-162

  4. Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Physical Techniques for the Investigation of the Metal-Gas Interface

    1. Electronic Properties of Clean and Chemisorbed Metal Surfaces

      • Thor Rhodin, David Adams
      Pages 163-194

    2. Approach to Two Prototype Metal Adsorption Systems

      • Thor Rhodin, David Adams
      Pages 195-228

    3. Atomic Structure and Thermodynamics of Pure and Two-Component Metal Surfaces

      • G. E. Rhead
      Pages 229-266

    4. Theory of L.E.E.D.

      • B. W. Holland
      Pages 267-288

    5. Applications of Leed to the Determination of Surface Structures on Metals

      • S. Andersson
      Pages 289-339

    6. Electron Spectroscopy of Surfaces via Field and Photoemission

      • J. W. Gadzuk
      Pages 341-387

    7. Electron Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Metallic Surfaces and Adsorbed Species

      • C. R. Brundle
      Pages 389-457

    8. S.I.M.S. Studies at Metal Surfaces

      • M. Barber
      Pages 459-483

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 621-633
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About this book

Imagine that a young physicist would approach a granting agen­ cy and propose to contribute to heterogeneous catalysis by studying the heat conductivity of gases in contact with a hot filament. How would he be received now? How would he have been treated sixty years ago ? Yet, more than sixty years ago, Irving Langmuir, through his study of heat transfer from a tungsten filament, uncovered most of the fundamental ideas which are used to-day by the scientific com­ munity in pure and applied heterogeneous catalysis. Through his work with what were for the first time "clean" metal surfaces, Langmuir formulated during a period of a little over ten years un­ til the early thirties, the concepts of chemisorption, monolayer, adsorption sites, adsorption isotherm, sticking probability, cata­ lytic mechanisms by way of the interaction between chemisorbed spe­ cies, behavior of non-uniform surfaces and repulsion between adsor­ bed dipoles. It is fair to say that many of these ideas constituting the first revolution in surface chemistry have since been refined through thousands of investigations. Countless papers have been pu­ blished on the subject of the Langmuir adsorption isotherm, the Langmuir catalytic kinetics and the Langmuir site-exclusion adsorp­ tion kinetics. The refinements have been significant. ThE original concepts in their primitive or amended form are used everyday by catalytic chemists and chemical engineers allover the world in their treatment of experimental data, design of reactors or inven­ tion of new processes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Facultés Universitaires N.-D. de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    E. G. Derouane, A. A. Lucas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Surfaces

  • Editors: E. G. Derouane, A. A. Lucas

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2796-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2798-1Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2796-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 634

  • Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Physical Chemistry

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