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This volume contains 19 papers covering many facets of contact angle, wettability and adhesion. It is an archival publication of the highest standard that discusses contact angle measurements and solid surface free energy, relevance of wetting in cleaning and adhesion and super hydrophobic surfaces.
List of contents
Part 1: Contact Angle Measurements and Solid Surface Free Energy 1. Effects of surface structure on the behavior of a heated contact line 2. Apparent solidification contact angles of micro-droplets deposited on solid surfaces 3. Microscopic wettability of softwood tracheid cell walls: Effects of wall sculpturing, sap solutes, and drying 4. The effect of binary fatty acids systems on partitioning, IFT and wettability of calcite surfaces 5. Mechanistic modeling of dynamic vapor-liquid interfacial tension in complex petroleum fluids 6. Influence of ambient humidity on the apparent surface free energy of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) Part 2: Relevance ofWetting in Cleaning and Adhesion 7. Wettability measurements and cleanliness evaluation without substantial cost 8. Wettability parameters controlling the surface cleanability of stainless steel 9. Functional topcoats on coated textiles for improved or self-attained cleanability 10. Wetting and adhesion in fibrous materials: Stochastic modeling and simulation 11. Adhesion of hydrophobizing agents: A comparison of values determined by contact angle and the JKR approaches 12. Wettability aspects and the improvement of adhesion of UV curable powder coatings on polypropylene substrates 13. Modulation of the surface properties of reactive polymers by photo-Fries rearrangement 14. Effect of grafting efficiency on peel strength, contact angle, particle size and viscosity of butyl acrylate–PUD hybrid adhesives for plastic laminates 15. Cell adhesion to polystyrene substrates: Relevance of interfacial free energy Part 3: Superhydrophobic Surfaces 16. Superhydrophobic aluminum surfaces obtained by chemical etching 17. Effect of temperature on superhydrophobic zinc oxide nanotowers 18. Superhydrophobic properties of silver coated copper 19. Surfactants adsorption at hydrophobic and superhydrophobic solid surfaces
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Mittal, Kash L.
Summary
This volume contains 19 papers covering many facets of contact angle, wettability and adhesion. It is an archival publication of the highest standard that discusses contact angle measurements and solid surface free energy, relevance of wetting in cleaning and adhesion and super hydrophobic surfaces.
