Effects of Charge

Particle-Substrate Interactions: Microscopic Aspects of Adhesion
Don Rimai

NexPress Solutions LLC.
Rochester, NY 14653-6402
donald_rimai@nexpress.com
(Edited for course presentation by G. Ahmadi (ahmadi@clarkson.edu))

Importance of Particle Adhesion

1. Technologically important
   1. Semiconductor fabrication
   2. Electrophotography
   3. Pharmaceuticals
   4. Paint
   5. Agriculture
   6. Aeronautics and space
   7. etc.
2. Fundamentally important
   1. Avoids confounding interactions (gravity, applied loads, etc.
   2. Allows thermodynamic parameters such as work of adhesion to be determined.
   3. Allows present understanding of adhesion to betested.