Adhesion interfacial binding energy

FIG. 7 Total energy per cross-sectional area as a function of interfacial separation between Fe and A1 surfaces for the clean interface and for monolayer interfacial impurity concentrations of B, C, N, O, and S. Graph (a) is for the case where the impurity monolayer is applied to the free A1 surface prior to adhesion, while graph (h) has the impurity monolayer applied to the free Fe surface prior to adhesion. The curves fitted to the computed points are from the universal binding energy relation. (From Ref. 28. Copyright 1999 hy the American Physical Society.)... 

Surface modification reactions are important not only for engineering of surface energy and interfacial properties such as wetting, adhesion, and friction, but also for providing active surfaces for the attachment of molecules with different properties such as polymers [552], ruthenium phthalocyanine (RuPc) [560], jr-electron moieties [561], and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) [566, 570]. Organosilanes with more than one reactive group have the potential of binding to more than one surface... 

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