Author: Mittal K. L. Mittal

S. Kumar is ?currently a faculty member at the ?Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He obtained his Ph D in Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering from the University of Oxford and an M. Phil from the University of Southampton. He has won?several awards including EPSRC Award at Oxford and a Rolls-Royce/DTI Fellowship at Southampton. He is a senior member of AIAA and is ?an active member of ASME and SAA UK. Kashmiri Lal Mittal was associated with 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 initiated, organized and chaired a large number of international symposia, and is the editor of more than 105 volumes dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification, surface cleaning, and surfactants.