Adsorbed particles can be bound chemically to the surface of a solid (chemisorption). Modern variants of electron diffraction and electron spectroscopy now enable us to gain an insight into the nature of such surface chemical bonds, which play a key role in heterogenous catalysis and many other technically important phenomena such as adhesion, lubrication etc. Predominantly localized surface bonds can be compared to the covalent bonds in cluster compounds.
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Gábor A. Somorjai (1977) studied this question.
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