Phase Transitions in Surface Films 2

Monolayers.- Phase Transitions of Monolayer Films Adsorbed on Graphite.- Computer Simulations of Two-Dimensional Systems.- Modulated Structures of Adsorbed Rare Gas Monolayers.- Signatures and Consequences of the Substrate Corrugation.- Epitaxial Rotation and Rotational Phase Transitions.- Structures and Phase Transitions in Alkali Metal Overlayers on Transition Metal Surfaces.- Original Properties of Thin Adsorbed Films on an Ionic Surface of Square Symmetry and High Surface Homogeneity: MgO(100).- Neutron Scattering Studies of Quantum Films.- A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Effect of Steric Properties on the Melting of Quasi Two-Dimensional Systems.- Probing Film Phase Transitions Through Measurements of Sliding Friction.- Phase Transitions in Lipid Monolayers on Water: New Light on an Old Problem.- Surface Reconstruction, Roughening, and Melting.- Phenomenology of Surface Reconstruction.- The Roughening Transition on Surfaces.- Interplay Between Surface Roughening, Preroughening, and Reconstruction.- Thermal Dynamics of Nonvicinal Metal Surfaces.- Surface-induced Melting of Solids.- Surface Melting and Diffusion.- On Surface Melting.- Frost Heave and the Surface Melting of Ice.- Wetting Phenomena, Multilayer Structures, and Film Growth.- Multilayer Physisorbed Films on Graphite.- Fluid Interfaces: Wetting, Critical Adsorption, van der Waals Tails, and the Concept of the Effective Interface Potential.- Adsorption Studies with a Graphite Fiber Microbalance.- The Methane/Graphite Phase Diagram.- Kinetics of Overlayer Growth.- Summary.- Conference Summary Where From? Where To?.- Participants.