Number of hours
- Lectures 10.0
- Projects 0
- Tutorials 10.0
- Internship 0
- Laboratory works 0
ECTS
ECTS 2.0
Goal(s)
This course offers an overview of the physical chemistry of surfaces in a broad sense. All the possible interfaces between the three states of matter -solid, liquid and gas- are addressed to various degrees of details.
Contact Valerie PARRY, Annie ANTONI, Guillaume PARRYContent(s)
A) Liquids and their interfaces: i) A Quiescent Interface? ii)
Thermodynamics of Liquid Interfaces iii) Orientation at Interfaces iv) The
spreading of one liquid on another
B) Surfaces of solids: i) A Quiescent Surface! ii) Description of surfaces iii)
Thermodynamics of Crystals iv) Surface crystallography
C) Surface tension measurement methods : i) Wilhelmy plate ii) Du Nouy ring iii) Bubble pressure
D) The solid-gas interface: i) Types of adsorption process ii)The Adsorption
Time iii) The Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm iv)The BET and Related
Isotherms
E) The solid-liquid interface
Prerequisites
Test
Additional Information
Course list
Curriculum->Degree Advanced Materials (AM)->Semester 8
Curriculum->Internationals Cursus->Semester 8