Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Surfaces

by Amand A. Lucas and Eric G. Derouane

Imagine that a young physicist would approach a granting agen- cy and propose to contribute to heterogeneous catalysis by studying the heat conductivity of gases in contact with a hot filament. How would he be received now? How would he have been treated sixty years ago ? Yet, more than sixty years ago, Irving Langmuir, through his study of heat transfer from a tungsten filament, uncovered most of the fundamental ideas which are used to-day by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468427989
• ISBN13: 9781468427981
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"