Chemical kinetics at solid-solid interfaces

Abstract

The kinetics of solid-solid interfaces controls in part the course of heterogeneous reactions in the solid state, in particular in miniaturized systems. In this paper, the essential situations of interface kinetics in solids are defined, and the basic formal considerations are summarized. In addition to the role interfaces play as resistances for transport across them, they offer high diffusivity paths laterally and thus represent two-dimensional reaction media. Experimental examples will illustrate the kinetic phenomena at static and moving boundaries, including problems such as exchange fluxes, boundary-controlled solid-state reactions, interface morphology, nonlinear phenomena connected with interfaces, and reactions in and at boundaries, among others.