1st Edition

Computational Methods in Surface and Colloid Science

Edited By Malgorzata Borowko Copyright 2000

    This volume presents computer simulation methods and mathematical modelling of physical processes used in surface science research. It offers in-depth analysis of advanced theoretical approaches to behaviours of fluids in contact with porous, semiporous and nonporous solid surfaces. The book also explores interfacial systems for a wide variety of phenomena, including: absorption, flotation, osmosis, and colloidal stability.

    Quantum effects in adsorption at surfaces; modern theories of classical fluids; non-uniform associating fluids; water at surface; computer simulations and theory of adsorption on energetically and geometrically heterogeneous surfaces; adsorption in random porous media; structure and phase behaviour of confined soft condensed matter; computer simulations of polymers; conformational and dynamic properties of polymer chains, adsorbed on hard surfaces; systems involving surfactants; ordering in microemulsions; simulations of systems with colloidal particles; fluids in contact with semi-permeable membranes; electrical double-layer - theory and simulations; surface chemical reactions; crystal growth processes; models of particle deposition on solid surfaces; theoretical approaches to the kinetics of adsorption, desorption and reactions at surfaces.

    Biography

    Malgorzata Borowko

    "Prof. Borowko has compiled a volume focusing on computational methods applied to surface and colloid science....We have to praise her ability to put together such a large amount of high-quality articles, which begin with a discussion of the fundamentals ideas, followed by a digestible, though complete mathematical description of the models, and end with simple to more advanced applications. This book is a must for any practitioner in surface science....The way the articles are written allows the interested and casual reader to be immediately updated on cutting-edge research in the exciting field of surface and colloid science."
    ---Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2000