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Useful materials for the COST School on Surface Analytical Techniques in Regensburg 04. - 07. April 2016

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Borkovec M., Surface Forces.

Israelachvili J., Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Third Edition, Academic Press, Massachusetts, 2010; Chapters 10, 12 - 14.

Hillmann R., Electrochemistry and Soft Interfaces.

Fisher A. C., Electrode Dynamics, Oxford Chemistry Primers, OUP, Oxford, 1996.

Very accessible, student-oriented text with descriptive approach.

Christensen P.A., Hamnett A., Techniques & Mechanisms in Electrochemistry, Edinburgh, 1995.?

Accessible treatment of electrochemical and in situ techniques.

Sawyer D.T., Sobkowiak A and Roberts J.L., Electrochemistry for Chemists, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1995.

Practically-oriented text, written for non-electrochemists wishing to use electrochemical techniques.

Bard A.J. & Faulkner L.R., Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals & Applications, Wiley, New York, 2001.

Standard text, with rigorous quantitative approach.

Hamann C.H., Hamnett A. & Vielstich W., Electrochemistry, 2nd edn, Wiley. Weinheim, 2007; ISBN 978-3-527-31069-2.

Comprehensive survey of electrochemical methods and (chapter 5) in situ techniques for studying electrochemical interfaces.

Johannsmann D., Acquisition and Modeling of QCM Data.

Johannsmann D., Viscoelastic, mechanical, and dielectric measurements on complex samples with the quartz crystal microbalance; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008, 10, 4516-4534; DOI: 10.1039/B803960G.

Koper G.J.M., Optical Reflection Methods for the Study of Interfaces.

Lecture notes and background material available here.

Motschmann H., Surface spectroscopy.

Some background information is available here

Penfold J., Probing surfaces and interfaces using Neutron reflectometry.

Basic Reviews on Neutron and x-ray reflectivity

Penfold J., Thomas R.K., J Phys: Condens Matt 2 (1990) 1369
Russell T.P., Mat Sci Rep 5 (1990) 171.

Applications of neutron reflectivity in surfactants and polymer-surfactant

Lu J.R., Thomas R.K., Penfold J., Adv Coll Int Sci 84 (2000) 143.
Taylor D.J.F., Thomas R.K., Penfold J., Adv Coll Int Sci 132 (2007) 69.
Penfold J, Thomas R.K., Int Sci and Technol, Adv Chem of Monolayers and Interfaces, Vol 14, Chapt 4, 87-115, Ed I Imae, Elsevier, 2007.

Basic scattering theory

Sivia D.S., Elementary Scattering Theory for x-ray and neutron users, OUP, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-922868-3.

Other

V?r?s J., Optical Biosensors.

Martin Nirschl e.a., Review of Transducer Principles for Label-Free Biomolecular Interaction Analysis; Biosensors 2011, 1, 70-92; doi:10.3390/bios1030070.

Ekins R.P., Ligand assays: from electrophoresis to miniaturized microarrays; Clinical Chemistry 44:9, 2015-2030 (1998).

Weidinger I., Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and its applications in analytical surface.


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