Surface Science

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This updated fourth edition provides a comprehensive understanding of chemical transformations and surface structure formation. It covers essential techniques and phenomena relevant to surface science, focusing on gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces. The text elucidates structural, dynamical, thermodynamic, and kinetic principles that explain how and why chemical transformations occur at surfaces. The author, a noted expert, integrates chemistry, physics, and mathematics to create an accessible resource. New end-of-chapter exercises, with online solutions, demonstrate relevant problem-solving techniques. Each chapter starts with basic principles and progresses to advanced topics, highlighting frontier areas of study. This edition expands on scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and super-resolution microscopy, reviews advances in catalysis theory and activity descriptors for catalyst design, and extends discussions on two-dimensional solids, reflecting recent growth and characterization advancements. It also delves deeper into the surface science of electrochemistry and charge transfer reactions, updating the "Frontiers and Challenges" sections and reference lists. Aimed at students, researchers, and professionals, this edition revitalizes the text, providing essential tools and principles for understanding the field.