Contact Angle, Wettability & Adhesion

MittaI K.L. (ed.)

This work chronicles the proceedings of the Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion held in honour of Professor Robert J. Good at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, 6-10 April 1992. The book opens with a description of the professional and personal life of Professor Good, followed by 62 papers, which are divided into four parts. The topics covered include: contact angle, wettability and adhesion – a critical review (Robert J. Good); capillary rise of a liquid on a solid (P.G. de Gennes, 1991 Physics Nobel Laureate);various factors influencing contact angle measurements; surface roughness effects in wetting phenomena; microscopic studies of static and dynamic contact angles; contact angles on plates and thin fibers; wettability behaviour and surface characterization of various materials; wettability of pharmaceutical powders; wettability of wood; wetting properties of monolayers; control of wettability of polymers using organic surface chemistry; polymer surface modification and wettability; relevance of wettability in adhesion; wettability and bioadhesion; role of water wettability, water transport and adhesion in vision; wettability and adhesion in metal-ceramic sytems; relevance of wetting in the control of dust during coal mining. This book, containing the latest developments and commentaries on the many ramifications of contact angle, wettability and adhesion, should be of value and interest to researchers and technologists working in this field.