This publication offers the fundamentals and characterization of defects at oxide surfaces. It presents a cutting-edge assessment of the sector, containing info to some of the kinds of floor defects, describes analytical ways to examine defects, their chemical job and the catalytic reactivity of oxides. Numerical simulations of faulty buildings whole the image constructed. Defects on planar surfaces shape the point of interest of a lot of the booklet, even if the research of powder samples additionally shape an immense half. The experimental learn of planar surfaces opens the potential of using the massive armoury of recommendations which have been built during the last half-century to review surfaces in ultra-high vacuum. this allows the purchase of atomic point facts less than well-controlled stipulations, supplying a stringent try of theoretical tools. The latter can then be extra reliably utilized to platforms akin to nanoparticles for which actual tools of characterization of constitution and digital houses have not begun to be constructed. The booklet supplies suggestions to tailor oxide surfaces by means of controlling the character and focus of defects. the significance of defects within the physics and chemistry of steel oxide surfaces is gifted during this e-book including the admired position of oxides in universal lifestyles. The ebook includes contributions from leaders within the box. It serves as a reference for specialists and novices within the box.