Adsorption on silica surfaces / edited by Eugène Papirer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Preface. Contributors 1. Brief Historical Review and Current State-of-the-Art of Silica /Klaus Unger, Dipika Kumar 2. Infrared and NMR Characterization of the Silica Surface /Barry A. Morrow, Ian D. Gay 3. Silica Surface Chemical Properties /Gamal M. S. El Shafei 4. Adsorption on Silica Surfaces /Vladimir Ya. Davydov 5. Nanoscale and Mesoscale Morphology of Silica Surfaces /Henri Van Damme 6. Thermogravimetric Approach for Determining Porosity of Silica Gels /Jacek Goworek 7. Surface Energetics of Silica Investigated by Inverse Gas Chromatography /Eugene Papirer, Henri Balard, Caroll Vergelati 8. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polyatomic Molecules in Model Silica Pores /Aleksander Brodka 9. Water Behavior at Silica Surfaces /Jonathan P. Icenhower, Patricia M. Dove 10. Surface and Interface Structure of Silicas /Jacques Persello 11. Surface Charge and Zeta Potential of Silica in Mixtures of Organic Solvents and Water /Marek Kosmulski 12. Adsorption on Ion-Bombarded Silica /Gianfranco Cerofolini, L. Meda, N. Re 13. Sorption of Heavy Metal Cations on Silica /Marek Kosmulski 14. Modification of Silica-Water Interfacial Behavior by Adsorption of Surfactants, Polymers, and Their Mixtures /P. Somasundaran, L. Zhang 15. Polymer and Polyelectrolyte Adsorption - Stability of Silica Suspensions /Erwin Killmann 16. Adsorption and Chemisorption of Enzymes and Other Natural Macromolecules on Silicas /V. A. Tertykh, V. V. Yanishpolskii 17. Adsorption on Silica Surfaces from Solution and Its Impact on Chromatographic Separation Techniques [and others] /Klaus Unger, Dipika Kumar, V. Ehwald 18. Adsorption of Polydimethylsiloxane Chains on Plane Silica Surfaces /Liliane Leger, Hubert Hervet, Martial Deruelle 19. Adsorption of PDMS on Bare Fumed Silica Surfaces /Jean-Pierre Cohen Addad 20. Modulation of Silica Pathogenicity by Surface Processes /Bice Fubini, William E. Wallace 21. Designing Surface Chemistry in Mesoporous Silica /Glen E. Fryxell, Jun Liu 22. Fumed Silica as a Host for Study of Large Surface-to-Volume Ratio Problems in Finely Divided Aqueous Systems: Implications for the Atmosphere /A. Bogdan Index.