Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, August 29-September 9, 1981

Inhalt

The Structure of Clean Surfaces.- Electronic Structure and Cohesion.- Surface Thermodynamics.- Physisorption and Chemisorption.- Critical Phenomena in Two Dimensions: Theoretical Models and Physical Realizations.- Crystal-Melt, Crystal-Amorphous and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces.- The Intermolecular Nature of Liquid Water - The Hydration of Molecules and Ions.- On the Structure of Grain Boundaries in Metals.- Kinetics of Elementary Processes at Surfaces.- Three Dimensional Nucleation.- Three and Two Dimensional Nucleation on Substrates.- Coalescence of Nuclei on Substrates.- Crystal Growth Kinetics.- Physisorption: Structures and Interactions.- Chemisorption of Metals on Metals and on Semiconductors.- Chemisorption on Single Crystal and Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Growth by Vacuum Evaporation, Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Melt Growth.- Crystal Growth in Aqueous Solutions.- Crystals and Crystallization in Biological Systems.- Crystal Growth from Non Aqueous Solutions.- Electrocrystallization.- Recrystallization.- Impurity Effects in Crystal Growth from Solution.- Dissolution Phenomena.- Crystallographic Applications of Holographic Interferometry.- Studies of Surface Morphology on an Atomic Scale.