##  [Surface–Bulk Interaction](/surface-bulk-interaction) 

  ##  [Surface–Bulk Interaction](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/surface-bulk-interaction-0) 

  

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Definition

The set of coupled processes by which surface phenomena (adsorption, desorption, heterogeneous reaction, surface reconstruction, film formation) and bulk-phase transport or composition (diffusion, convection, bulk reaction, phase change) exchange mass, energy, charge or species and thereby alter each other's rates, distributions, and steady states in a system.