Capillarity Today: Proceedings of an Advanced Workshop on Capillarity Held In Memoriam Raymond Defay at Brussels, Belgium, 7–10 May 1990

Ilya Prigogine (auth.), G. Pétré, A. Sanfeld (eds.)3540543678, 9783540543671, 0387543678

Beginning with Nobel laureate I. Prigogine’s lecture “Entropy Revisited”, this book gives a well-balanced survey on capillarity properties at liquid and solid interfaces. It approaches the subject from both the microscopic (statistical mechanics) and the macroscopic (mechanics and thermodynamics) points of view. Experimental aspects and technological applications are also presented. The book addresses researchers and graduate students of physics and physical chemistry.

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Table of contents :
Entropy Revisited….Pages 1-13
Adsorption and wettability in metal/ceramic systems….Pages 15-23
Equilibrium surface segregation in solid binary alloys….Pages 24-32
Spreading of a stratified, incompressible, droplet….Pages 33-39
Line tension and wetting….Pages 40-48
Liquid-solid coexistence: A density-functional approach….Pages 49-61
Phase equilibria and adsorption of fluids confined in narrow pores….Pages 62-79
Capillarity in porous media….Pages 80-89
Capillarity in microgravity….Pages 90-107
Solitons and other interfacial waves excited and sustained by capillarity….Pages 108-112
Solid surfaces : Capillarity vs Elasticity….Pages 113-128
Interfacial tension of organic solutions….Pages 129-137
Session 4: Surface Tension of Solutions Line Tension Line tension and its application to the theory of heterogeneous phase formation….Pages 138-147
A topological constraint on the Variance….Pages 148-152
The necessity of ideal organized solution concept: The comparison of ideal solution and ideal organized solution….Pages 153-162
Ions in »Solution« and in weak ion exchange membranes….Pages 164-221
Thermodynamics of charged interfaces….Pages 222-233
Thermodynamics of micelles….Pages 234-240
Non-monotonous temperature dependence of interfacial tensions….Pages 241-246
Surface tension measurements of liquid metals….Pages 247-251
The double layer at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions….Pages 252-256
Orientation thermodynamics at polymer — liquid interfaces….Pages 257-260
Marangoni-driven solitary waves….Pages 261-267
Growth instabilities of bubbles and drops….Pages 268-272
Competition between Surface and Volume Reactions….Pages 273-275
Capillary crawling on inhomogeneous solid surfaces….Pages 276-280
The role of the Soret effect on Marangoni-Benard stability….Pages 281-294
Various optical diagnostic techniques for microgravity experiments….Pages 295-304
Holographic visualization of interfacial phenomena….Pages 305-317
Wetting of pore walls by oil or brine in reservoir rocks….Pages 318-348
Some industrial applications of surfactants….Pages 349-360
On superficial and interfacial phenomena in powder metallurgy….Pages 361-372
Marangoni’s Effect in welding….Pages 373-375