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Surface engineering can be defined as an enabling technology used in a wide range of industrial activities. Surface engineering was founded by detecting surface features which destroy most of pieces, e.g. abrasion, corrosion, fatigue, and disruption; then it was recognized, more than ever, that most technological advancements are constrained with surface requirements. In a wide range of industry (such as gas and oil exploitation, mining, and manufacturing), the surfaces generate an important problem in technological advancement. Passing time shows us new interesting methods in surface engineering. These methods usually apply to enhance the surface properties, e.g. wear rate, fatigue, abrasion, and corrosion resistance. This book collects some of new methods in surface engineering.

Surfaces (Technology) --- Materials --- Surface phenomena --- Friction --- Surfaces (Physics) --- Tribology --- Surfaces --- Surface-coating technology

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engineering of materials --- modelization --- nanostructured materials --- Surface reactivity --- interfaces --- Environmental Chemistry --- surface reactivity --- environmental chemistry --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Interfaces (Physical sciences) --- Surface chemistry --- Surfaces (Physics)

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This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the phase behaviour of, and interfacial properties in, complex colloidal mixtures (e.g., clay, milk, blood). Insights into colloids have been at the heart of many innovations in different industries. The big question underlying these innovations is how can colloidal systems be formulated and designed towards the desired properties? To do this, the forces between the colloidal particles need to be controlled. Adding depletants (non-adsorbing polymers or small colloids) is key to controlling the attractive interactions. Colloids and the Depletion Interaction provides the qualitative insights and quantitative tools to understand and predict such forces in colloidal dispersions. It offers a concise introduction to the history and fundamentals of the depletion interaction in, and phase behaviour of, colloidal dispersions. Why does adding polymers lead to attractive forces between colloidal particles? What determines the phase stability of multi-component colloidal systems? These include colloid—polymer mixtures, binary colloidal mixtures, and anisotropic particles such as clay platelets, cubes and rod-like viruses. Conceptual explanations are accompanied by experimental and computer simulation results throughout. Illustrations of depletion effects in colloid science, biology and technology demonstrate its wider significance. The concluding outlook provides the scope of challenges and possibilities in this exciting field of science. This second updated and enlarged edition contains 12 Chapters. It is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physical chemistry, chemical engineering and soft matter physics. Besides providing a fundamental understanding of depletion interactions in colloidal mixtures, it gives background information on colloidal stability and phase behaviour in general. For experienced scientists and engineers working on mixtures of colloids and non-adsorbing (bio)polymers or colloidal particles, this book serves as a reference for understanding depletion interactions in systems of their specific interest.

Soft condensed matter. --- Polymers. --- Surfaces (Physics). --- Thermodynamics. --- Physical chemistry. --- Soft and Granular Matter. --- Surface and Interface and Thin Film. --- Physical Chemistry.

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Metamaterials have provided applications in spectral ranges covering radio frequencies and ultraviolet. However, most applications have been extrapolated to the visible or near-infrared after being developed at the GHz level. This is due to technological reasons since fabrication of microwave antennas is not as demanding as THz resonators or plasmonic nanostructures. Accordingly, this book has been divided into three parts. In the first part, fundamentals of metamaterials and metadevices are discussed, while describing recent advances in the field. In the second part, the discussion is extended to the different spectral ranges focusing on the strategies for enabling the reconfigurability of metadevices. Given the increasing interest in THz applications, these can be found in the third part.

Electromagnetic waves. --- Surfaces (Physics) --- Metamaterials. --- Meta materials --- Composite materials --- Electromagnetism --- Physics --- Surface chemistry --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Electromagnetic energy --- Electromagnetic radiation --- Electromagnetic theory --- Waves --- Composite Materials --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Materials Science

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"...focusing on fundamental aspects of chemistry and physics occurring at surfaces, interfaces and thin films"--About, viewed June 30, 2021

preparation --- functionalization and modification of surfaces and interfaces --- 2d materials and heterostructures --- surface and interface physics --- Surface chemistry --- Surface chemistry. --- Chemistry, Surface --- Interfaces, Chemistry of --- Surface phenomena --- Surfaces (Chemistry) --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Capillarity --- Surface energy --- Surface tension --- Surfaces (Physics)