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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 43 Issue 1

Takae Takeuchi, A. James McQuillan, Alexander Shard, Andrea E. Russell and D. Brynn Hibbert

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2020

Volume 92, Issue 11, pp. 1781-1860

https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404

This glossary provides a formal vocabulary of terms for concepts in surface analysis and gives clear definitions to those who utilize surface chemical analysis or need to interpret surface chemical analysis results but are not themselves surface chemists or surface spectroscopists. It does not include methods that yield purely structural and morphological information, such as diffraction methods and microscopies. The general scope includes analytical techniques in which beams of electrons, ions, or photons are incident on a material surface and scattered or emitted electrons, ions, or photons detected from within about 10 nm of the surface are spectroscopically analysed. The glossary includes methods and terms for chemical analysis of surfaces under vacuum, as well as surfaces immersed in liquid.

This glossary will serve as a necessary update to the previous version of the Orange Book, published in 1997. The advances in surface analysis during the intervening years have been many. The purpose is to ensure the universality of terminology in the field of Surface Analytical Chemistry. Consistency in terminology is key to assuring reproducibility and consistency in results.

The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has published ISO 18115 Surface Chemical Analysis—Vocabulary, which consists of two parts: ISO 18115-1, General terms and terms used in spectroscopy (2013), and ISO 18115-2, Terms used in scanning probe microscopy (2013). The present Recommendation selectively includes topics contained in the two parts of ISO 18115 without including microscopic methods. The terminology taken from ISO 18115-1 and -2 for this IUPAC Compendium is reproduced with permission of the International Organisation for Standardisation. Terms and definitions also comply with the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM).

Section 2 of this Glossary contains definitions of the principal methods used in surface chemical analysis along with Notes giving the more common variants of these principal methods. This section introduces the range of surface chemical analysis methods available. Section 3 provides definitions of terms associated with the various methods of section 2.

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