Surface Tension: Fundamentals and Applications

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Explores capillarity, wetting, and surface tension, discussing contact angles, hysteresis, and wetting states.

Explores wettability, force balance, wetting behavior, and capillary length in liquids.

Explores surface and interface energy, wetting kinetics, and the impact of geometric and chemical inhomogeneities on wetting behavior.

Covers the fundamentals of gas-liquid interfaces, including surface tension and capillary action.

Covers capillarity, capillary rise, wetting, non-wetting, and surface forces.

Explores electrostatic and van der Waals forces, adhesion in geckos, and methods to prevent stiction in microsystems.

Explores surface tension, adhesion, cohesion, intermolecular forces, and the Young equation in relation to various materials and liquids.

Explores capillarity, wetting, nucleation, boiling, and condensation in liquid-vapor phase change applications.

Explores polymer collapse, emphasizing covolume and free energy in the process.

Provides a comprehensive review of Two-Phase Flows and Heat Transfer topics, including pool boiling, capillarity, wetting, and flow regimes.