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If the spreading is into a limited surface area, as in a laboratory experiment, the film front rather quickly reaches the boundaries of the trough. The film pressure at this stage is low, and the now essentially uniform film more slowly increases in v to the final equilibrium value. The rate of this second-stage process is mainly determined by the rate of release of material from the source, for example a crystal, and the surface concentration F [46]. Franses and co-workers [47] found that the rate of dissolution of hexadecanol particles sprinkled at the water surface controlled the increase in surface pressure here the slight solubility of hexadecanol in the bulk plays a role. 

Vinyl-Coated Fabrics. Leather substitutes are designed to imitate the appearance of leather with its grain surface. This requirement has been accomphshed by coating substances that are capable of forming a uniform film, and was first met by plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). A leather-like material termed vinyl-coated fabric was developed in the 1930s in the United States and Germany. Shortages of leather after World War 11 spurred the expansion of this material. 

In a similar procedure, the atomizer test, which depends on the behavior of an advancing rather than a receding contact angle, a fine mist of water is apphed to the metal surface and the spreading of water is observed. On a clean surface, water spreads to a uniform film. With oleic acid as the test soil, the atomizer test can detect the presence of 10 mg of soil per cm, less than a monomolecular layer (115). For steel that is to be electroplated, the copper dip test is often employed. Steel is dipped into a cupric salt solution and the eveimess of the resulting metallic copper deposit is noted. 

In the simplest case, for a single citcular contact spot between identical metals having a uniform film, contact resistance R has the relationship ... 

Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the neutron reflectivity measurement with the neutrons incident on the surface and refiected at an angle 6 with respect to the surface. The angie 62 is the angle of refraction. The specimen in this case is a uniform film with thickness d, on a substrate.

Paints are specially formulated for one of two processes. In the first, anodic electrodeposition, the article to be painted is made the anode in a d.c. circuit. Cathodic electrodeposition is the reverse operation. The process takes place under carefully controlled conditions in a tank. Current passes through the paint causing it to deposit uniformly over the article in a uniform film whose thickness can be accurately controlled. The paint film is insoluble in water and exhibits remarkable adhesion after stoving. Electrodeposition is widely used to apply primers, e.g. by car manufacturers, and one coat finishes. 

Electrodeposition Suitable for most articles Gives uniform film even on rough surfaces. With suitable plant will completely coat interior surfaces, sharp edges, etc. but generally only economic on mass production... 

If we want to use the Tafel slopes to obtain the empirical kinetics of polymerization, we have to use a metallic electrode coated with a previously electrogenerated thin and uniform film of the polymer in a fresh solution of the monomer. In some cases experimental Tafel plots present the two components (Fig. 4) before and after coating. 

A uniform film of analyte, which is required for the production of good quality spectra, can usually be obtained from mobile phases which contain predominantly organic solvents (normal-phase systems). As the percentage of water in the mobile phase increases, however, droplets tend to form on the belt, irrespective of the belt speed. If the belt is not exactly horizontal, and this is often the case, especially after it has been in use for some time, the droplets are likely to roll off the belt and be lost, thus reducing the overall sensitivity of the analysis dramatically. 

In practice, uniform films are obtained for only a limited number of film-substrate material combinations (17). The more common experience is that the deposited material forms 3D clusters. The clusters may form directly on the bare substrate, in the Volmer-Weber growth mode, or on top of a very thin but uniform film of the deposit, the Stranski-Krastanov growth mode. We now discuss a method for determining the equilibrium configuration of the deposited material. 

Therefore, we predict that for a system with any finite misfit, a uniform film with a thickness greater than several monolayers is not the equilibrium state the system can lower the chemical potential by the formation of clusters. Clusters will form on either the bare substrate (Volmer-Weber mode any finite misfit with WKl and large misfits if W >1) or on a few layers of uniform film (Stranski-Krastanov mode up to moderate misfits with W>1). This will be true for any system without long-range (e.g. electrostatic) forces. 

Complete wetting if 5 > 0, P > 0. In this case, droplets spread to a uniform film or pancake. 

For concentrated or bulk samples a transmission experiment is both the simplest and the most effective. In essence, one measures the X-ray intensities incident and transmitted through a thin and uniform film of the material. Careful analysis of signal-to-noise ratio considerations indicates that optimal results are obtained when the sample thickness is of the order of 2.5 absorption lengths. Since in this case a simple Beer s law applies, the data are usually plotted as In(7//0) versus E. The intensities are measured using ionization chambers in conjunction with high-gain electrometers (see Fig. 11). 

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