The topic of wettabilty is extremely important from both fundamental and applied aspects. The applications of wettability range from self-cleaning windows to micro- and nanofluidics.
This book represents the cumulative wisdom of a contingent of world-class (researchers engaged in the domain of wettability. In the last few years there has been tremendous interest in the ‘Lotus Leaf Effect’ and in understanding its mechanism and how to replicate this effect for myriad applications. The topics of superhydrophobicity, omniphobicity and superhydrophilicity are of much contemporary interest and these are covered in depth in this book.
Tentang Penulis
Kashmiri Lal Mittal was employed by the IBM Corporation
from 1972 through 1993. Currently, he is teaching and consulting
worldwide in the broad areas of adhesion as well as surface
cleaning. He has received numerous awards and honors including the
title of doctor honoris causa from Maria
Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is the editor
of more than 110 books dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion
of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion
promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification, surface
cleaning, and surfactants. Dr. Mittal is also the Founding Editor
of the journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives.
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