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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Heterogeneous catalysis | |
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| Why surfaces? | |
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| Where are heterogeneous reactions important? | |
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| Semiconductor processing and nanotechnology | |
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| Other areas of relevance | |
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| Structure of the book | |
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| Bulk and Surface Structure | |
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| Clean surface structure | |
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| Reconstruction and adsorbate structure | |
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| Band structure of solids | |
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| The vibrations of solids | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Experimental Probes and Techniques | |
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| Ultrahigh vacuum | |
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| Light and electron sources | |
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| Molecular beams | |
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| Scanning probe techniques | |
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| Low energy electron diffraction (LEED) | |
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| Electron spectroscopy | |
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| Vibrational spectroscopy | |
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| Second harmonic and sum frequency generation | |
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| Other surface analytical techniques | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Chemisorption, Physisorption and Dynamics | |
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| Types of interactions | |
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| Binding sites and diffusion | |
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| Physisorption | |
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| Non-dissociative chemisorption | |
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| Dissociative chemisorption: H2 on a simple metal | |
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| What determines the reactivity of metals? | |
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| Atoms and molecules incident on a surface | |
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| Microscopic reversibility in Ad/Desorption phenomena | |
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| The influence of individual degrees of freedom on adsorption and desorption | |
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| Translations, corrugation, surface atom motions | |
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| Rotations and adsorption | |
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| Vibrations and adsorption | |
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| Competitive adsorption and collision induced processes | |
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| Classification of reaction mechanisms | |
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| Measurement of sticking coefficients | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Adsorption and Desorption | |
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| Thermodynamics of Ad/Desorption | |
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| Adsorption isotherms from thermodynamics | |
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| Lateral interactions | |
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| Rate of desorption | |
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| Kinetics of adsorption | |
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| Adsorption isotherms from kinetics | |
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| Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Liquid Interfaces | |
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| Structure of the liquid/solid interface | |
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| Surface energy and surface tension | |
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| Liquid films | |
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| Langmuir films | |
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| Langmuir-Blodgett films | |
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| Self assembled monolayers (SAMs) | |
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| Thermodynamics of liquid interfaces | |
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| Electrified and charged interfaces | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Heterogeneous Catalysis | |
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| The prominence of heterogeneous reactions | |
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| Measurement of surface kinetics and reaction mechanisms | |
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| Haber-Bosch process | |
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| From microscopic kinetics to catalysis | |
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| Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and related chemistry | |
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| The three-way automotive catalyst | |
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| Promoters | |
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| Poisons | |
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| Bimetallic and bifunctional catalysts | |
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| Rate oscillations and spatiotemporal pattern formation | |
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| Sabatier analysis and optimal catalyst selection | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Growth and Epitaxy | |
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| Stress and strain | |
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| Types of interfaces | |
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| Surface energy, surface tension and strain energy | |
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| Growth modes | |
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| Nucleation theory | |
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| Growth away from equilibrium | |
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| Techniques for growing layers | |
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| Catalytic growth of nanotubes and nanowires | |
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| Etching | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Laser and Non-Thermal Chemistry: Photon and Electron Stimulated Chemistry and Atom Manipulation | |
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| Photon excitation of surfaces | |
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| Mechanisms of electron and photon stimulated processes | |
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| Photon and electron induced chemistry at surfaces | |
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| Charge transfer and electrochemistry | |
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| Tip Induced process: mechanisms of atom manipulation | |
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| Summary of important concepts | |
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| Frontiers and challenges | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 1. Bulk and Surface Structure | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 2. Experimental Probes and Techniques | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 3. Chemisorption, Physisorption and Dynamics | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 4. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Adsorption and Desorption | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 5. Liquid Interfaces | |
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| Answers to Exercises from Chapter 6. Heterogeneous Catalysis | |
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| Answers to Exercises From Chapter 7. Growth and Epitaxy | |
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| Answers to exercises from Chapter 8. Laser and Nonthermal Chemistry | |
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| Abbreviations and Prefixes | |
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| Symbols | |
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| Useful Mathematical Expressions | |
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| Index | |