Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Synthesis of a Polysilazane Coating on a Silica Gel via Chemical Surface Coating Comparing Liquid- and Gas-Phase Chlorosilylations -- Preparation of Molecular Sieves by Pillaring of Synthetic Clays -- Engineering of Nanosize Superparamagnetic Particles for Use in Magnetic Carrier Technology -- Acid-Base Behavior of Surfaces of Porous Materials -- Electro-Optical Spectroscopy of Colloidal Systems -- NMR Studies of Colloidal Oxides -- Polymer Surface Dynamics Using Surface- Modified Glasses via Dynamic Contact Angle Measurements -- Microporous Structure of Collagen Fibers -- Adsorption onto Oxides: The Role of Diffusion -- Electrokinetic Phenomena in Porous Media and Around Aggregates -- Transport Processes in Microemulsions -- Structural Effects on Diffusivity Within Aggregates of Colloidal Zirconia -- Characterization of Energetically Heterogeneous Surfaces from Experimental Adsorption Isotherms -- Computer Simulations of the Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Adsorbed Phases -- Surface Heterogeneity Effects on Adsorption Equilibria and Kinetics: Rationalizations of the Elovich Equation -- Single- and Multicomponent Adsorption Equilibria of Hydrocarbons on Activated Carbon: The Role of Micropore Size Distribution -- Surface and Structural Properties of Modified Porous Silicas -- Nanodimensional Magnetic Assembly of Confined O2 -- Heat of Adsorption of Pure Gas and Multicomponent Gas Mixtures on Microporous Adsorbents -- Surface Chemistry of Activated Carbon Materials: State of the Art and Implications for Adsorption -- Charge Regulation at the Surface of a Porous Solid -- Surface lonization and Complexation -- The Surface Charge of Alkali Halides in Their Saturated Solutions -- Ionic Adsorbates on Hydrophobic Surfaces -- Adsorption of Metal Ions onto Humic Acid.

Hydrous Metal Oxides as Adsorbents for Aqueous Heavy Metals -- Adsorption of Ions onto Alumina -- Protein Adsorption onto Latex Particles -- Adsorption of Pharmaceutical Organic Compounds onto Porous Materials -- Index.