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Volume 4
Edited by
K.L. Mittal
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-1-119-62525-4
The current book constitutes Volume 4 in the series “Progress in Adhesion and Adhesives” initiated in 2015. Volume 3 (published in 2018) in this vein was based on 12 review articles published initially in 2017 in the journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives (RAA) by recognized experts and world-class active researchers in the wide domain of adhesion science and adhesive technology. The sole purpose of RAA is to publish concise, critical, illuminating and thought-provoking review articles on any topic within the broad purview of Adhesion Science and Adhesive Technology. Volume 2 (published in 2017) documented 14 review articles published originally in 2016 in RAA addressing a number of topics of current interest. The premier Volume 1 (although we did not designate it as Volume 1 as we had no crystal ball to prognosticate the future of this series) was the result of 13 review articles originally published in RAA in the year 2014.
The first three volumes were warmly received and had served the intended purpose and this motivated us to bring out the current Volume 4. We have received excellent comments from many members of the adhesion community and this provided ample justification for making these books available. These hardbound books provide an easily accessible resource for critical information on a number of topics of current interest and relevance in the broad domain of Adhesion Science and Adhesive Technology. It should be stressed here that the authors of the review articles endorsed cheerfully the idea of bringing out these hardbound books.
With the information being published at an ever-increasing rate, critical review articles serve an excellent purpose for anyone wishing to stay informed about the latest developments on a topic of his/her interest. As a matter of fact, anyone embarking on research in an area should start with a critical review article.
The rationale for bringing out Volume 4 was the same as was applicable to its predecessors, i.e., the RAA has limited circulation so this set of books should provide broad exposure and wide dissemination of valuable information published on many and varied aspects of Adhesion & Adhesives in RAA.
The chapters in this Volume 4 follow the same order as the review articles published initially in RAA in the year 2018. The subjects of these 9 review articles fall into the following areas.
It should be pointed out that in 2018 the reason why only 9 review articles were published was that some review articles were very long and the total number of pages printed had to be maintained.
The topics covered include: Adhesion phenomena in microelectronic packaging; adhesives for wood and lignocellulosic materials; adhesion to wood and lignocellulosic materials; adhesively bonded lap joints having bi-adhesive and modulus-graded bondlines; adhesion between compounded elastomers; applications of contact angle measurements in pharmaceuticals and foods; oxygen or ammonia plasma treatment of polyolefin surfaces; surface free energy determination of powders and particles; wood bonds; and dispersion adhesion forces between macroscopic objects.
Now comes the pleasant task of acknowledging all those who were instrumental in making this book available. First and foremost, I would like to profusely thank the authors of review articles for their whole-hearted support and enthusiastically endorsing the idea of bringing out Volume 4 as they strongly felt that this series of books was an alternative, but very useful, medium to make the information contained in these review articles to a much wider audience. Also, thanks to Martin Scrivener (publisher) for conceiving the idea of publishing this series of books and for his steadfast support in this book project.
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