Electrolytes at Interfaces

✍ Scribed by S. Durand-Vidal, J. -P. Simonin, P. Turq (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a modern presentation of ionic solutions at interfaces, for physical chemists, chemists and theoretically oriented experimentalists in this field. The discussion is mainly on the structural and thermodynamic properties, in relation to presently available statistical mechanical models. Some dynamic properties are also presented, at a more phenomenological level. The initial chapters are devoted to the presentation of some basic concepts for bulk properties: hydrodynamic interactions, electrostatics, van der Waals forces and thermodynamics of ionic solutions in the framework of a particular model: the mean spherical approximation (MSA). Specific features of interfaces are then discussed: experimental techniques such as in-situ X-ray diffraction, STM and AFM microscopy are described. Ions at liquid/air, liquid/metal and liquid/liquid interfaces are considered from the experimental and theoretical viewpoint. Lastly some dynamic (transport) properties are included, namely the self-diffusion and conductance of small colloids (polyelectrolytes and micelles) and the kinetics of solute transfer at free liquid/liquid interfaces.

✦ Table of Contents

Hydrodynamic properties....Pages 3-22
Electrostatics....Pages 23-45
Van der Waals forces....Pages 47-56
Introduction....Pages 59-69
The mean spherical approximation (MSA) for the equal size primitive model....Pages 71-78
Thermodynamic properties....Pages 79-86
Ion association in the MSA....Pages 87-96
Thermodynamic excess properties of ionic solutions in the primitive MSA....Pages 97-113
Mathematical background....Pages 115-123
Introduction....Pages 127-205
Ions at liquid/air and liquid/liquid interfaces....Pages 207-234
Solute transfer kinetics at a liquid/liquid interface....Pages 235-267
Electrokinetic phenomena....Pages 269-288
Description of electrolyte transport using the MSA for simple electrolytes, polyelectrolytes and micelles....Pages 289-330
Polyelectrolytes....Pages 331-334

✦ Subjects

Electrochemistry; Physical Chemistry; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films