Advances In Contact Angle Wettability And Adhesion

This is the fourth volume in the series "Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion" initiated to consolidate information and provide commentary on certain recent research aspects dealing with this important topic. Its predecessor Volumes 1, 2 and 3 were published in 2013, 2015 and 2018 respectively. This new book comprising 14 research and review articles is divided into four parts: Part 1: Contact Angle and Wettability Aspects; Part 2: Surface Free Energy and Surface Tension Determination; Part 3: Applied Aspects. The topics covered include: Contact Angle Determination of Talc Powders from Heat of Immersion Surface Wetting at Macro and Nanoscale Wettability of Wood Surfaces with Waterborne Acrylic Lacquer Stains Modulated by DBD Plasma Treatment in Air at Atmospheric Pressure Wettability of Ultrafiltration Membranes Determination of the Surface Free Energy of Solid Surfaces: Can the Best Model be Found Surface Free Energy Characterization of Talc Powders Determination of the Surface Free Energy of Skin and the Factors Affecting it by the Contact Angle Method Determination of Surface Tension Components of Aqueous Solutions using Fomblin HC/25 R Perfluoropolyether Liquid Film as a Solid Substrate Enhancing the Wettability of Polybenzimidazole (PBI) to Improve Fuel Cell Performance Evaluation of Sebum Resistance for Long-Wear Face Make-Up Products Using Contact Angle Measurements Contact Angle Hysteresis of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives due to Adhesion Tension Relaxation The Potential of Surface Nano-Engineering and Superhydrophobic Surfaces in Drag Reduction Laser Surface Engineering of Polymeric Materials for Enhanced Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion and Growth Sisal-Green Resin Interfaces in Green Composites.

This book chronicles the proceedings of the Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion held in honor 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 divided into four parts. The topics covered include: Contact angle, wettability and adhesion: a critical review (by Professor Good himself); capillary rise of a liquid on a solid (by Professor 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 behavior 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 systems; relevance of wetting in the control of dust during coal mining.

This is the third Volume in the series “Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion” initiated to consolidate information and provide commentary on certain recent research aspects dealing with this important topic. Its predecessor Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 2013 and 2015, respectively. This new book comprising 15 research and review articles is divided into four parts: Part 1: Contact Angle Measurement and Analysis; Part 2: Wettability Behavior; Part 3: Hydrophobic/Superhydrophobic Surfaces; Part 4: Wettability, Surface Free Energy and Adhesion. The topics covered include: O Procedure to measure and analyse contact angles/drop shape behaviors. O Contact angle measurement considering spreading, evaporation and reactive substrate. O Measurement of contact angle of a liquid on a substrate of the same liquid. O Evolution of the axisymmetric droplet shape parameters. O Interfacial modulus of a solid surface. O Functionalization of textiles using UV-based techniques for surface modification—patterned wetting behavior. O Wettability behavior of oleophilic and oleophobic nanorough surfaces. O Wettability behavior of nanofluids. O Dielectrowetting for digital microfluidics. O Hydrophobicity and superhydrophobicity in fouling prevention. O Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic hybrid surface. O Laser material processing for enhancing stem cell growth. O Wettability correlation for bioadhesion to different materials. O Determination of the surface free energy of solid surfaces: statistical consideration. O Determination of apparent surface free energy using hysteresis approach.

This volume documents the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion held in Newark, NJ, June 21-23, 2000. Since the first symposium, held in 1992, there had been tremendous research activity on many ramifications of wettability phenomena.This volume contains a total of 33 papers, which were all pro

The topic of wettabilty is extremely important from both fundamental and applied aspects. The applications of wettability range from self-cleaning windows to micro- and nanofluidics. This book represents the cumulative wisdom of a contingent of world-class (researchers engaged in the domain of wettability. In the last few years there has been tremendous interest in the "Lotus Leaf Effect" and in understanding its mechanism and how to replicate this effect for myriad applications. The topics of superhydrophobicity, omniphobicity and superhydrophilicity are of much contemporary interest and these are covered in depth in this book.

The topic of wettability (measured in terms of contact angle) is of tremendous interest from both fundamental and applied points of view, Wettability plays an essential role in many industrial processes, so an understanding of factors dictating wettability and how to modulate it is of paramount importance. In the last years there has been an explosive interest in superhydrophobic surfaces (i.e., surfaces with water contact angle of 150° or higher) because of their relevance/importance in many areas ranging from self-cleaning windows to nanofluidics. Also recently there has been heightened activity in the field of electrowetting. Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, Volume 6 is divided into four parts: Part 1: Fundamental Aspects; Part 2: Wettability Control/Modification; Part 3: Superhydrophobic Surfaces; and Part 4: Surface Free Energy and Relevance of Wettability in Adhesion. The topics covered include: a guide to the equilibrium contact angles maze: fundamental aspects of wetting of rough and chemically heterogeneous surfaces: work of adhesion for rock-oil-brine systems; Is the world basic?; wettability control/modification using various approaches; superhydrophobic surfaces and ways to impart superhydrophobicity; adsorption on superhydrophobic surfaces; solid surface energy determination; surface modification of different materials; relevance of wettability and adhesion aspects in a variety of reinforced composites. In essence, this volume reflects the cumulative wisdom of many active and renowned researchers and provides a commentary on contemporary research in the fascinating world of contact angles and wettability. This volume and its predecessors (5 volumes), containing bountiful information, will be of much value to anyone interested/involved in controlling wetting phenomena and their applications.

This book describes wetting fundamentals and reviews the standard protocol for contact angle measurements. The authors include a brief overview of applications of contact angle measurements in surface science and engineering. They also discuss recent advances and research trends in wetting fundamentals and include measurement techniques and data interpretation of contract angles.