This outstanding reference summarizes advances in the understanding of intermolecular surface dynamics and the importance of wetting in processes and products. It addresses the underlying theory as well as practical experimental techniques, including contact angle testing (goniometry), and details the special considerations required for wettability in multi-component systems. Wettability is generously referenced, with over 850 literature citations.

From the Preface: “Wettability refers to the response evinced when a liquid is brought into contact with a hard surface initially in contact with a gas or another liquid. Many possibilities exist. The liquid may move out over the solid, displacing the original fluid, and finally coming to a halt when the angle between the liquid—fluid and solid—liquid interfaces reaches a certain value, a contact angle. On the other hand, the liquid may spread without limit, displacing the original fluid from the entire solid surface available...”

Target Audience: Physical, surface, and colloid chemists; chemical and mechanical engineers and bioengineers; materials scientists; physicists; and upper-level and graduate students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Wetting of Low-Energy Surfaces

Role of Acid—Base Interactions in Wetting and Related Phenomena

Wetting by Solutions

Interfacial Chemistry in Biomaterials Science

Dynamic Contact Angles and Wetting Kinetics

Hydrodynamics of Wetting

Role of Solid/Solid Wetting in Catalysis

High-Temperature Wetting Behavior of Inorganic Liquids

Index