In addition to technological advances pushing the development of adhesion and interfacial sciences, recent experimental and computational tools have helped pull these areas forward. Novel spectroscopic techniques and improved equipment has led to a better understanding of bond formation and breaking upon contact and separation. In addition, recent advances in computer technology have facilitated both the acquisition of data and the enhancement of theoretical understanding of adhesion and interfacial phenomena.

The papers contained in this volume were originally presented at the Fundamentals of Adhesion and Interfaces Symposium, held in Chicago at the August 1993 meeting of the American Chemical Society. The papers were originally reviewed and published in two special issues of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology.

From the Preface: “Surfaces are everywhere and the importance of their interactions transcends individual technologies. Some of the technological areas where surfaces play a vital role are friction, wear, triboelectrification, surface contamination control in microelectronics, bioadhesion, particle adhesion, pharmacology, agriculture, electrophotography, electronics packaging, semiconductor fabrication, and, of course, adhesive bonding. Accordingly, the fields of adhesion and interfacial sciences have become quite multidisciplinary in recent years...”

Target Audience: Academic and industrial scientists and technologists concerned with adhesion and interfacial phenomena.

Table of Contents:

Mechanics of Particle Adhesion

The Role of Adhesion in the Impact of Elastic Spheres

Surface Roughness and its Influence on Particle Adhesion Using Atomic Force Techniques

JKR—DMT Transition in the Presence of a Liquid Meniscus

Adhesion of Charged Particles

Adhesion and Cohesion Mechanisms of Lunar Dust on the Moon's Surface

The Adhesion-Induced Deformation and the Removal of Submicrometer Particles

X-Ray Evanescent Wave-Induced Fluorescence Study of Adsorption of a Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomer from Dimethyl Sulfoxide to the Solution/Vapor Interface

Surface Modification of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fibers by Gamma-Radiation-Induced Grafting

Probing Adhesion Spectroscopically: Rheo-Photoacoustic FT-IR Spectroscopy and Work of Adhesion

Formation of Polyamide—Cu Complexes: Improvement of Direct Cu-on-PI and PI-on-Cu Adhesion

Fracto-Emission and Electrical Transients Due to Interfacial Failure

Direct Measurement of Molecular Level Adhesion Between Poly(ethylene terephthalate) and Polyethylene Films: Determination of Surface and Interfacial Energies

Wetting Hysteresis: Effects Due to Shadowing

Interaction Forces Between Hydrophobic Mica Surfaces

Cracks at Adhesive Interfaces

Relationship Between Adhesion and Friction Forces

Molecular Dynamic Modeling of Interfacial Energy