Adhesion Science and Technology

JOHN F. WATTS University of Surrey, Guildford. Surrey. England 

In the quarter of a century or so that has elapsed since the surface analysis methods XPS, AES and SIMS became commercially available they have moved from their original home in the laboratory of the surface chemist and surface physicist to become methods of applied surface analysis. The wide range of disciplines within which these methods have been successfully applied can be readily appreciated by the diverse contents of this book. Some areas, such as corrosion, catalysis and polymers, have featured in the literature since the early 1970s while other disciplines have come to surface analysis rather more recently. 

Adhesion research has made use of surface analysis since the mid-1970s, but by the end of that decade there were, perhaps, only two or three re.search groups worldwide that had a strong presence in both adhesion and surface analysis. Surface analysis papers at adhesion conferences were few and far between, and those involved in surface analysis and adhesion tended to seek the company of likeminded analysts. By the end of the following decade the situation had changed dramatically and surface analysis was then seen to feature prominently 

se the forces responsible for adhesion act over very. short distances (ca. 0.5 nm) it is self-evident that any extraneous material between polymer and substrate may have a possibly deleterious effect on the level of adhesion 

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Kinloch, A.J., Adhesion and Adhesives — Science and Technology. Chapman and Hall, London, 1987. 

Owen, M.J., 1st International Congress on Adhesion Science and Technology, 1998, p. 255. 

Pastor-Sempere N., Eemandez-Garcfa J.C., Orgiles-Barcelo A.C., Pastor-Bias M.M., Martfn-Martfnez J.M., and Dillard J.G., 1998, Surface treatment of styrene-butadiene rubber with carboxylic acid, in First International Congress on Adhesion Science and Technology, W.J. van Ooij and H.R. Anderson Jr. (Eds), Utrecht, VSP, 461 94. 

Kharazipour, A., Hiittermann, A. and Luedemann, H.D. (1997). Enzymatic activation of wood fibres as a means of the production of wood composites. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 11(3), 419-4 27. 

Kharazipour, A., Bergmann, K., Nonninger, K. and Hiittermann, A. (1998). Properties of fibre boards obtained by activation of the middle lamella of wood fibres with peroxidase and H2O2 before conventional pressing. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 12(10), 1045-1053. 

Mittal KL, Anderson HR (1991) Acid-base interactions relevance to adhesion science and technology. VSP, Utrecht... 

Fowkes, F. M., Quantitative characterization of the acid-base properties of solvents, polymers, and inorganic surfaces . In Acid-Base Interactions - Relevance to Adhesion Science and Technology, K. L. Mittal and H. R. Anderson, Eds., VSP, Utrecht, 1991, pp. 93-115. 

Acid-base reactions across the interface. This subject was well covered by a symposium on Acid-Base Interactions Relevance to Adhesion Science and Technology in honor of Professor F. M. Fowkes on his 75th birthday. Most of these papers have been published in Vol. 4, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 8 (1990) and Vol. 5, No. 1 (1991) of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology. 

With the development of adhesion science and technology, it has become relatively straightforward to produce adhesive bonds of very reasonable strength between most materials which are in general use. An informed choice of adhesive together with appropriate preparation of the surface will produce a strong bond. 

Barthes-Labrousse MG, Joud JC (2000) Acid-Base Characterization of metallic materials and the use of model molecules in the study of adhesion mechanism. Acid-Base Interactions Relevance to Adhesion Science and Technology, Mittal KL (ed) VSP Utrecht, 453... 

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