Edited by
Hari Nalwa, Formerly of Hitachi Research Laboratory, Japan
Description
This handbook brings together, under a single cover, all aspects of the chemistry, physics, and engineering of surfaces and interfaces
of materials currently studied in academic and industrial research. It covers different experimental and theoretical aspects of surfaces
and interfaces, their physical properties, and spectroscopic techniques that have been applied to a wide class of inorganic, organic,
polymer, and biological materials.
The diversified technological areas of surface science reflect the explosion of scientific information
on surfaces and interfaces of materials and their spectroscopic characterization. The large volume of experimental data on chemistry,
physics, and engineering aspects of materials surfaces and interfaces remains scattered in so many different periodicals, therefore this
handbook compilation is needed.
The information presented in this multivolume reference draws on two decades of pioneering research
on the surfaces and interfaces of materials to offer a complete perspective on the topic. These five volumes-Surface and Interface Phenomena;
Surface Characterization and Properties; Nanostructures, Micelles, and Colloids; Thin Films and Layers; Biointerfaces and Applications-provide
multidisciplinary review chapters and summarize the current status of the field covering important scientific and technological developments
made over past decades in surfaces and interfaces of materials and spectroscopic techniques with contributions from internationally recognized
experts from all over the world. Fully cross-referenced, this book has clear, precise, and wide appeal as an essential reference source
long due for the scientific community.
Audience:
Upper-level graduate and graduate students, and researchers working on surface of materials. For chemists, solid-state physicists, materials
scientists, surface chemists, polymer scientists, electrical engineers, chemical engineers, industrial engineers, and spectroscopists.
