This book, comprising a series of monographs by leading experts in their respective fields, outlines the scientific basis and experimental methods for a broad sample of surface analysis techniques, drawing heavily from established principles of physical and analytical chemistry, while presenting a simple low-cost method of tracking particles in three dimensions. The focus is on techniques that use commercially available or easily assembled equipment to characterize surface behavior.

Surface Characterization Methods considers procedures for recognizing molecules and processing particulate materials for a wide range of surface and interfacial properties; describes surface energies, electrokinetic characterization, van der Waals interactions, and wetting behavior; covers scanning probe methodologies, light scattering techniques, and chromatography; explains the commonly used experimental techniques for measuring contact angles; examines the formation of thermally reversible gels; and more.

From the Preface: “...A host of experimental methodologies are available to researchers interested in surface analysis per se, or as an adjunct to other applications. The current literature is on the whole highly specialized, dealing with specific topics in great detail. While such books are of use to the specialist, it is felt that there is certainly a need for a reference text that provides a more general appreciation of the surface characterization methods currently in use or being developed in modern laboratories...”

Target Audience: Physical, surface, colloid, analytical, inorganic, and materials chemists; chemical engineers; materials scientists; spectroscopists; and upper-level students of these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Measurement of the Surface Tension and Surface Stress of Solids

Contact Angle Techniques and Measurements

Measurement of Ion-Mediated and van der Waals Forces Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Measurement of Electro-osmosis as a Method for Electokinetic Surface Analysis

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Static Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SSIMS) of Biomedical Polymers and Surfactants

Evanescent Wave Scattering at Solid Surfaces

Characterizing Colloidal Materials Using Dynamic Light Scattering

Light Scattering Studies of Microcapsules in Suspension

Three-Dimensional Particle Tracking of Micronic Colloidal Particles

Low-Mass Luminescent Organogels

Chromatographic Methods for Measurement of Antibody—Antigen Association Rates

The Acid—Base Behavior of Proteins Determined by ISFETs

Index