Contact Angle Wettability and Adhesion Volume 4

<p>This volume chronicles the proceedings of the <i>4th International Symposium on Contact Angle Wettability and Adhesion</i> held in Philadelphia PA June 2004. <br><br>The world of wettability is very wide and it plays a crucial role in many and varied technological areas ranging from microfluidics to biomedical to agriculture to welding. <br><br>This volume contains a total of 31 papers covering many ramifications of contact angle wettability and adhesion. All manuscripts were rigorously peer-reviewed and revised and properly edited before inclusion in this book. <br><br>The topics covered include: fundamental aspects of contact line region; evaporative behavior of sessile drops; various factors influencing contact angle measurements; different kinds of contact angles; various ways to measure contact angles; contact angle hysteresis; contact angle measurements on various materials (smooth rough porous heterogeneous); effect of electric field on contact angle (electrowetting); wetting and spreading on heterogeneous surfaces; factors influencing wetting/spreading phenomena; determination of solid surface free energy via contact angle measurements; application of AFM in determining solid surface tension at the nano-scale; ultralyophobic surfaces; surface modification and wettability; multiphase flow dynamics in porous media; thin film coatings for textile materials; bio-fouling resistant coatings; relationships between wetting and adhesion; and relevance/importance of wetting and surface energetics in technological applications including cleaning of flooring materials kinetics of oil removal from coating materials cell adhesion and mold compound- metal adhesion in semiconductor packaging.</p>