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Wetting Dynamics and Surfaces: Faraday Discussions No 146 Edition. Edition
Contributor(s): Royal Society of Chemistry (Other)

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 ISBN: 1849730563     ISBN-13: 9781849730563
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
OUR PRICE: $266.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical
- Science | Chemistry - Organic
- Science | Chemistry - Industrial & Technical
Dewey: 530.417
LCCN: 2010537433
Series: Faraday Discussions
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.17" W x 9.43" L (1.74 lbs) 414 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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The aim of this meeting was to convene scientists from experimental and theoretical disciplines to discuss a number of highly topical and controversial issues related to wetting and dewetting at hydrophobic surfaces. The current interest in superhydrophobic surfaces has led to a conceptual widening of the term hydrophobicity. Non-wetting of a surface may be achieved not only by minimising the surface free energy, but also via an appropriately tailored surface morphology. As a consequence, even low-energy liquids may dewet a surface and hydrophobicity becomes a more general lyophobicity. Wetting dynamics at both smooth and structured surfaces is involved in a range of surface phenomena, including contact angle hysteresis, adhesion, surface forces, self-cleaning and the boundary conditions for fluid flow. This very active area of current research has major cross-disciplinary implications, and a number of theoretical, modelling and experimental results are in urgent need of clarification and resolution if we are to understand better the properties and behaviour of extended and structured hydrophobic and lyophobic surfaces. Physical chemists, biologists, materials scientists and nanotechnologists have benefited from attending this meeting, and its printed discussion.
 
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