Adhesive engineer

Europoean Adhesive Bonder European Adhesive Specialist Europoean Adhesive Engineer... 

Adhesives consumer and craftsmen adhesives (pastes and adhesives for home use) industrial and packaging adhesives engineering adhesives (high-performance sealants and systems) ... 

R. Wolf, A.C. Sparavigna, Role of plasma surface treatments on wetting and adhesion. Engineering 2, 397-402 (2010)... 

Louis H. Sharpe received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Michigan State University in 1957. He is the Supervisor of Adhesive Engineering and Development at Bell Laboratories. Dr. Sharpe is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adhesion. His research interests have been adhesion, adhesives and mechanical properties of polymers. 

W. F. Harrington, Elastomeric adhesives, Engineered Materials Handbook. Adhesives and Sealants, Vol. 3, ASM International, 1990, pp. 143-150. 

A series of two-part epoxy structural adhesives engineered for high heat (220 C) applications. Excellent for metal-to-metal bonding. 

After reading some chapters on the various industries, the reader will need specific and detailed technical characteristics concerning the adhesives or sealants that they may consider for their own applications/end uses. For instance, those who wish to bond metal parts, those working in aircraft construction, automotive, and transportation, should read the chapters Epoxy adhesives , Engineering adhesives , and maybe also Heat stable adhesives . 

Plastics and resins can be classified in several different ways. They can be grouped according to chemical composition (polyolefin, poly acrylate) according to physical characteristics (elastomeric, thermoplastic, thermoset) according to form (sheet, film, fiber) and according to function (packaging film, structural adhesive, engineering thermoplastic). 

Silicone rubber, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Acetal and the polyolefin plastics (polypropylene, polyethylene) are always a challenge to the adhesive engineer due to the low surface energy of these materials. Whilst the detailed consideration of surface tension is more in the province of the physicist than the engineer, wetting (the establishment of contact) plays a significant role in adhesion. 

Many engineering plastics are selected on the basis of other properties (mouldability, stiffness, temperature performance, etc.) and the suitability for adhesive bonding is unlikely to be considered in the first instance. Polyetheretherketone (PEEK), for example, is a very good engineering plastic with some excellent properties but, for the adhesive engineer, this is one of the most difficult materials to bond and will... 

There is usually very little accurate durability data available for the bonding of engineering plastics and it has to be admitted that the specialist adhesive engineers... 

Neural tissue Increased elastic modulus, neuronal cell adhesion, engineering neurite extension, and decreased astrocyte adhesion... 

Formulation based on such a concept — which could well be called adhesive engineering — is now well in hand though inevitably some time must elapse before designers will benefit from the availability of an adhesive range possessing a carefully planned matrix of properties, a matrix that will ease, and improve, the process of adhesive selection. 

Wainwright, P. and Bolt, R., Anaerobic adhesives. Engineering Materials and Design, March 1978. 

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