Lectures related to Basics of Adhesive Bonding

Mechanical Joints: Snap Fits and Adhesive Bonding

Covers mechanical joints, focusing on snap fits and adhesive bonding principles.

Surfaces and Interfaces: Thermodynamics and Kinetics

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

Solid Liquid Interfaces: Young's Theorem and Cassie Equation

Explores Young's Theorem and the Cassie Equation for solid-liquid interfaces.

Surface Tension: Adhesion & Cohesion

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

Heterogeneous Catalysis: Introduction and Surface Reactivity

Introduces the basics of heterogeneous catalysis, focusing on catalyst types, surface reactivity, and the role of surface energy in catalytic processes.

Adhesive Technologies: Types and Formulations

Explores the chemistry, formulations, and applications of various adhesives in different industries.

Surface Phenomena: Adsorption, Isotherms & Tension

Explores adsorption, isotherms, and surface tension phenomena in nanoscale materials.

Surface Energy: Definitions and Applications

Covers the definitions of surface energy and interfacial energy, as well as the Wulff Plot and key questions about crystallographic planes.

Capillarity and Wetting

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

Fracture of Materials: Review of Exercises

Covers exercises on fracture of materials, statistical failure analysis, Weibull model, and microcrack size analysis.

Wettability and Capillary Length

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

Surface Tension and Contact Angle

Explores surface tension, contact angle, wetting phenomena, and nanoparticle behaviors at different scales.

Ceramic Processing: Dispersion and Wetting

Explores the production of ceramic pastes, dispersion, wetting, surface tension, and the lotus leaf effect.

Interfacial Chemistry: Introduction & Importance

Covers the basics of interfacial chemistry, including emulsions, surface tension, and the importance of interfaces in various applications.

Capillarity and Surface Tension

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

Crack Tip Plasticity in Materials

Explores crack tip plasticity in materials, emphasizing the importance of the plastic zone in crack resistance.

Biological Contaminants: Pathogens

Covers the definition of biological contaminants and the transmission of pathogens, including emerging infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance.

Thermodynamics: Surface Energy

Explores surface energy in thermodynamics, discussing Gibbs free energy, surface tension, nucleation theories, precipitation models, and Brownian motion.

Interfaces: Thermodynamics and Applications

Explores the thermodynamics of interfaces, emphasizing the concept of work of addition and its applications in material science.

Capillarity and Wetting: Fundamentals and Applications

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