Lecture Notes in Physics

Entropy Revisited.- Adsorption and wettability in metal/ceramic systems.- Equilibrium surface segregation in solid binary alloys.- Spreading of a stratified, incompressible, droplet.- Line tension and wetting.- Liquid-solid coexistence: A density-functional approach.- Phase equilibria and adsorption of fluids confined in narrow pores.- Capillarity in porous media.- Capillarity in microgravity.- Solitons and other interfacial waves excited and sustained by capillarity.- Solid surfaces : Capillarity vs Elasticity.- Interfacial tension of organic solutions.- Session 4: Surface Tension of Solutions Line Tension Line tension and its application to the theory of heterogeneous phase formation.- A topological constraint on the Variance.- The necessity of ideal organized solution concept: The comparison of ideal solution and ideal organized solution.- Ions in "Solution" and in weak ion exchange membranes.- Thermodynamics of charged interfaces.- Thermodynamics of micelles.- Non-monotonous temperature dependence of interfacial tensions.- Surface tension measurements of liquid metals.- The double layer at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions.- Orientation thermodynamics at polymer - liquid interfaces.- Marangoni-driven solitary waves.- Growth instabilities of bubbles and drops.- Competition between Surface and Volume Reactions.- Capillary crawling on inhomogeneous solid surfaces.- The role of the Soret effect on Marangoni-Benard stability.- Various optical diagnostic techniques for microgravity experiments.- Holographic visualization of interfacial phenomena.- Wetting of pore walls by oil or brine in reservoir rocks.- Some industrial applications of surfactants.- On superficial and interfacial phenomena in powder metallurgy.- Marangoni's Effect in welding.