Authors: Walter Langel
Publish Date: 2003/09/20
Volume: 7, Issue: 10, Pages: 731-732
Abstract
Inorganic oxide surfaces are everywhere not only on ceramics and technical glasses Oxide layers help to passivate many metals otherwise they may be on the first step towards corrosion The editor even claims that most of the surfaces in the universe are covered with oxides of some sort A book on such a general topic cannot be exhaustive Wingraves monograph does not try to give a general overlook but is in spite of its title an accumulation of articles with different levels of specialization and qualityFor me the most important part is that on materials science Chapters 2 and 3 by Netz and Andelman and by Cohen Stewart and De Keizer respectively review the physics of polymers on surfaces and the adsorption kinetics The most interesting examples polymer brushes and polymer grafted hydrophobic oxide surfaces are exposed in chapter 8 by Cohen et al All three articles contain a lot of interesting polymer physics both theory and experiments In this context I only missed
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