Adhesives surface adhesion

Liquid or solid films which reduce or prevent adhesion between surfaces solid-solid, solid-paste, solid-liquid. Waxes, metallic soaps, glycerides (particularly stearates), polyvinyl alcohol, polyethene, silicones, and fluorocarbons are all used as abherents in metal, rubber, food, polymer, paper and glass processing. 

Sorbitol is manufactured by the reduction of glucose in aqueous solution using hydrogen with a nickel catalyst. It is used in the manufacture of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), various surface active agents, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, dentifrices, adhesives, polyurethane foams, etc. 

Aluminum complex greases, obtained by the reaction of aluminum isopropylate with a mixture of benzoic acid and fatty acids. These greases have a remarkable resistance to water, very good adhesion to metallic surfaces, good mechanical stability properties and resistance to temperature. They are less common than the first two types. 

Finally, Newmann and co-workers [30] (see also Ref. 31) have argued that while free energy contributions may not be strictly additive as in Eq. IV-11, there should, in principle, be an equation of state relating the work of adhesion to the separate liquid surface tensions such as... 

D. D. Eley, ed., Adhesion, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961. E. Passaglia, R. R. Stromberg, and J. Kruger, eds., Ellipsometry in the Measurement of Surfaces and Thin Films, National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 256, Washington, DC, 1964. 

Water at 20°C rests on solid naphthalene with a contact angle of 90°, while a water-ethanol solution of surface tension 3S dyn/cm shows an angle of 30°. Calculate (a) the work of adhesion of water to naphthalene, (b) the criticd surface tension of naphthalene, and (c) y for naphthalene. 

D. Y. Kwok, F. Y. H. Lin, and A. W. Neumann, Contact Angle Studies on Perfect and Imperfect Solid Surfaces, in Proc. 30th Int. Adhesion Symp., Yokohama Japan, 1994. 

This chapter and the two that follow are introduced at this time to illustrate some of the many extensive areas in which there are important applications of surface chemistry. Friction and lubrication as topics properly deserve mention in a textbook on surface chemistiy, partly because these subjects do involve surfaces directly and partly because many aspects of lubrication depend on the properties of surface films. The subject of adhesion is treated briefly in this chapter mainly because it, too, depends greatly on the behavior of surface films at a solid interface and also because friction and adhesion have some interrelations. Studies of the interaction between two solid surfaces, with or without an intervening liquid phase, have been stimulated in recent years by the development of equipment capable of the direct measurement of the forces between macroscopic bodies. 

A number of friction studies have been carried out on organic polymers in recent years. Coefficients of friction are for the most part in the normal range, with values about as expected from Eq. XII-5. The detailed results show some serious complications, however. First, n is very dependent on load, as illustrated in Fig. XlI-5, for a copolymer of hexafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene [31], and evidently the area of contact is determined more by elastic than by plastic deformation. The difference between static and kinetic coefficients of friction was attributed to transfer of an oriented film of polymer to the steel rider during sliding and to low adhesion between this film and the polymer surface. Tetrafluoroethylene (Telfon) has a low coefficient of friction, around 0.1, and in a detailed study, this lower coefficient and other differences were attributed to the rather smooth molecular profile of the Teflon molecule [32]. 

The interesting implication of Eq. XII-24 is that for a given solid, the work of adhesion goes through a maximum as 7b(a) is varied [69]. For the low-energy surfaces Zisman and co-workers studied, )3 is about 0.04, and Wmax is approximately equal to the critical surface tension yc itself the liquid for this optimum adhesion has a fairly high contact angle. 

These authors doubt that such interactions can be estimated other than empirically without fairly accurate knowledge of the structure in the interfacial region. Sophisticated scattering, surface force, and force microscopy measurements are contributing to this knowledge however, a complete understanding is still a long way off. Even submonolayer amounts of adsorbed species can affect adhesion as found in metals and oxides [74]. 

The adhesion between two solid particles has been treated. In addition to van der Waals forces, there can be an important electrostatic contribution due to charging of the particles on separation [76]. The adhesion of hematite particles to stainless steel in aqueous media increased with increasing ionic strength, contrary to intuition for like-charged surfaces, but explainable in terms of electrical double-layer theory [77,78]. Hematite particles appear to form physical bonds with glass surfaces and chemical bonds when adhering to gelatin [79]. 

Returning to more surface chemical considerations, most literature discussions that relate adhesion to work of adhesion or to contact angle deal with surface free energy quantities. It has been pointed out that structural distortions are generally present in adsorbed layers and must be present if bulk liquid adsorbate forms a finite contact angle with the substrate (see Ref. 115). Thus both the entropy and the energy of adsorption are important (relative to bulk liquid). The... 

R. Houwink and G. Salomon, eds.. Adhesion and Adhesives, Elsevier, New York, 1965. J. Israelachvili, Intermolecular Surface Forces, 2nd ed.. Academic, San Diego, CA, 1992. 

The flotation of mica has been correlated to the adhesion force measured from surface force (SFA—see Section VI-4) experiments although, to these authors, it is clear that dynamic effects prevent an absolute comparison [69, 70],... 

Bartell and Flu [19] were able to determine the adhesion tension, that is, ysv -7SL. for the water-silica interface to be 82.8 ergs/cm at 20°C and its temperature change to be -0.173 erg cm K . The heat of immersion of the silica sample in water was 15.9 cal/g. Calculate the surface area of the sample in square centimeters per gram. 

Baxter R J 1968 Percus-Yevick equation for hard spheres with surface adhesion J. Chem. Phys. 49 2770... 

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