This authoritative reference discusses the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents and emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging. It highlights simple and complex adsorption systems sorted by the adsorbent as well as the adsorbate.

Chemical Properties of Material Surfaces provides the most comprehensive and current collection of pristine PZC of different materials. It covers crystal structure, methods of perparation, 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 quantities. It discusses adsorption of inorganic ions on silica, specific salts, metal oxides, and hydroxides; surface charging in inert electrolytes; ternary surface complexes and multiple surface species; surface heterogeneity; and more.

Target Audience: Colloid, surface, physical, polymer, chemical, and environmental chemists; chemical engineers; material scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Physical Properties of Adsorbents:

Crystallographic Data

Thermochemical Data

References

Surface Charging in Absence of Strongly Adsorbing Species:

Zero Charge Conditions

Correlations Between Zero Points and Other Physical Quantities

Surface Charging in Inert Electrolytes

Temperature Effects

Nonaqueous Media

References

Strongly Adsorbing Species:

Experimental Methods

Small Ions

Organic Compounds and Their Mixtures

Surfactants

Polymers

Competition

Kinetics

References

Adsorption Modeling:

Surface Sites

Surface Reactions and Speciation

Primary Surface Charging

Specific Adsorption

Surface Heterogeneity

References

Sorption Properties of Selected Organic Materials:

Activated Carbon

Latexes

Other Materials

References

Appendices

Indexes