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 ...
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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.
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Very Good. No Jacket as issued. Large Octavo. xxiv + 972 pp, Preface, papers by scientist contributors, grouped in 4 Parts: Part I: General Papers-five papers; Part 2: Factors Influencing Contact Angle Measurements sixteen papers; Part 3: Wettability Behavior and Surface Characterization of Various Materials-twenty-four papers; Part 4. Wettability and Adhesion, and Applied Aspects of Contact Angle/Wettability-sixteen papers. Each paper with abstract, introduction, figures-tables-footnotes, and references. First Page of table of contents has a few marker lines else text clean, pages white, text block with minor shelfwear at the bottom fr edge, Lower fr hinge board 1/2" bump/tear, some minor wear to edges & bent tip rear upper forecorner, else binding tight, orange glossy laminated boards VG. 6.6" x 9.6" orange boards.
