Principles of Adsorption of Organics at Solid-Solution Interfaces

Abstract

General thermodynamic and molecular approaches to an understanding of organic adsorption at solid-solution interfaces are proposed. Particular importance is attached to the nature of surface sites on the solid and on the nature of functional groups on the organic. It is shown that such a systematic treatment can account for adsorption of small organics, larger surfactant molecules and ions, and polymers at many solid-solution interfaces.