简介:A few words on the history and
future of surface chemistry
For more than 400 years, important
scientists and mathematicians
like Leonardo da Vinci,
Isaac Newton, Pierre Simon Laplace,
Thomas Young, Siméon
Denis Po简介:A few words on the history and
future of surface chemistry
For more than 400 years, important
scientists and mathematicians
like Leonardo da Vinci,
Isaac Newton, Pierre Simon Laplace,
Thomas Young, Siméon
Denis Poisson, Josiah Willard
Gibbs, Frederick M. Fowkes have
done valuable pioneer work
for the explanation of surface
tension, capillarity, wetting and
other interfacial problems.
As a sector of physical chemistry,
surface chemistry in connection
with colloid chemistry established
itself as an independent
science about 70 years ago. Important
milestones in modern
theory and practice of wetting
properties are the works of Girifalco/
Good and Fowkes from
the 50s and 60s of this century.
They formed the basis for the
analysis and optimization of
solid and liquid interfaces frequently
applied today.
Although most of us don''t realize
it, interfacial processes rule
our everyday life wherever we
go. A multitude of processes,
whether in a household or in industrial
production, is influenced
by interfaces and their chemical
state. All known high technologies
with a promising future, like
wafer and chip production, biochemistry
and gene technology
as well as micro-system technology
benefit in particular from
the increasing understanding
of interfacial correlations. The
DataPhysics team would like to
take you on a little tour of this
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