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Molecular Adhesion and Its Applications - The Sticky Universe (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Molecular Adhesion and Its Applications - The Sticky Universe (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, engineers and
technologists would have recognized the importance of adhesion in
two main aspects: First, in the display of friction between
surfaces - at the time a topic of growing importance to engineers;
the second in crafts requiring the joining of materials -
principally wood-to form engineering structures. While physical
scientists would have admitted the adhesive properties of glues,
gels, and certain pastes, they regarded them as materials of
uncertain formulation, too impure to be amenable to precise
experiment. Biological scientists were aware also of adhesive
phenomena, but the science was supported by documentation rather
than understanding. By the end of the century, adhesion and
adhesives were playing a crucial and deliberate role in the
formulation of materials, in the design and manufacture of
engineering structures without weakening rivets or pins, and in the
use of thin sections and intricate shapes. Miniaturization down to
the micro- and now to the nano-level of mechanical, electrical,
electronic, and optical devices relied heavily on the understanding
and the technology of adhesion. For most of the century, physical
scientists were aware that the states of matter, whether gas,
liquid, or solid, were determined by the competition between
thermal energy and int- molecular binding forces. Then the solid
state had to be differentiated into crystals, amorphous glasses,
metals, etc. , so the importance of the molecular attractions in
determining stiffness and strength became clearer.
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