Leading scientists provide a modern description of the metal-solution interface and describe the numerous advances made in interfacial electrochemistry during the past decade. Contributing authors summarize the impact of new ex situ and in situ techniques in studying electrode surfaces, and illustrate the significance of the developments of new experimental techniques and the availability of reliable data for the progress in the theory of electrified interfaces.

The carefully selected review articles demonstrate how a molecular picture of the interface has emerged from traditional models that treated the solution as a dielectric and metals as an electronic continuum. This latest volume in the series leads the reader into the world of modern techniques, which probe the properties of atoms and the molecules at surfaces of metal electrodes. It will be of interest to graduate students and scientists, chemists and physicists interested in surface science and electrochemistry.