Proceedings of the Workshop on Interfacial Phenomena: Research Needs and Priorities, Held at Seattle, Washington on February 15-16, 1979

摘要

This workshop provided a forum for researchers engaged in the study of interfacial phenomena to summarize current knowledge and to highlight developments pertinent to establishing future research funding priorities in the field. The recent resurgence of interest in interfacial phenomena stems from increased awareness of their intimate connection with energy supply, pollution abatement, biomedical grade materials, and many industrial and natural processes. Participants examined four important fundamentals: (1) interfacial transport phenomena dealing with the formulation of equations of change and constitutive equations for multicomponent deforming interfaces, and the measurement of surface rheological and transport properties which they define; (2) equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of fluid interface systems involving the prediction of boundary tensions, adsorption, and configurations of interface systems in terms of molecular properties, and techniques for their measurement; (3) heat and mass transfer across moving interfaces studying the effect of interfacial thermodynamic and transport behavior on processes of heat and mass transfer across fluid interfaces; and (4) physiochemical aspects of biological phenomena at the solid aqueous interface investigating surface chemistry as a fundamental determinant of biological interaction.