This volume presents state-of-the-art investigations of properties and processes at solid—liquid interfaces with the same precision as is standard in ultra-high-vacuum-based surface science. Using combinations of in situ and ex situ experimental methods, fundamental and relevant phenomena such as adsorption and desorption of ions and molecules, restructuring of surfaces, thin film and nanocluster growth, and electrochemical reactions on the micrometer scale are addressed. The overview includes a wide range of experimental techniques and examples of solid—liquid interfaces, and aims at stimulating an expansion of research in this type of interface science.

From the Preface: “...Some of the largest-scale industrial processes such as flotation, metal recovery and refinement, galvanization, electrolysis, passivation, etc. are based on phenomena at solid—liquid interfaces. Macroscopically these phenomena are well described. Their characterization on the atomic and molecular level, however, constitutes a new dimension of complexity, and, thus, scientific challenge, because the concealment of the interface between two condensed phases excludes the application of most of the established [surface science] techniques...”

Target Audience: Upper-level students, researchers and technologists in academia and industry interested in micro- nano-scale understanding of solid—liquid interfaces.

Table of Contents:

Adsorption in Processing Technologies:

Surface Analytical Studies of Oxidation and Collector Adsorption in Sulfide Mineral Flotation

Metals from Sulfide Minerals: The Role of Adsorption of Organic Reagents in Processing Technologies

SXPS and XANES Studies of Interface Reactions of Organic Molecules on Sulfide Semiconductors

Recovery of Gold from Its Ores: An STM Investigation of Adsorption of the Aurocyanide onto Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite

Anion Adsorption:

Atomic Structure of Cu(111) Surfaces in Dilute Sulfuric Acid Solution

Chloride Adsorption on Cu(111) Electrodes: Electrochemical Behavior and UHV Transfer Experiments

SHG Studies on Halide Adsorption at Au(111) Electrodes

Electrochemical Surface Modification:

Electrodeposited Magnetic Monolayers: In-Situ Studies of Magnetism and Structure

Structural Transitions in Organic Adlayers A Molecular View

Assembly of Au-Cluster Superstructures by Steering the Phase Transitions of Electrochemical Adsorbate Structures

Interface Reactions:

Imaging Localized Reactivities of Surfaces by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Surface Reactions of Hot Electrons at Metal—Liquid Interfaces

Low-Energy Negative Recoil Spectroscopy Principles and Applications

Index