Chemcal Properties of Material Surfaces

Kosmulski (electrochemistry, Technical U., Lublin, Poland) has written an authoritative reference that discusses the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents and emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging. The volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of pristine points of zero charge (PZC) of different materials-including crystallographic structure, methods of preparation, impurities in the solid, temperature and ionic composition of the solution, experimental methods to determine PZC, and the correlation between zero points and other physical qualities-as it explores adsorption of inorganic ions on silica, specific salts, metal oxides, hydroxides, surface charging in inert electrolytes, ternary surface complexes and multiple surface species, and surface heterogeneity.