Liquid Film Coating: Scientific principles and their technological implications

Introduction. Coating Science and Technology: an overview. Physics and material interactions of coating processes. Capillary hydrodynamics and interfacial phenomena. Wetting: static and dynamic contact lines. Surfactants: static and dynamic surface tension. Coating rheology: component influence in the rheological response and performance of water-borne coatings in roll applications . The fate of thin liquid films after coating. Methods of investigating coating processes. Experimental methods. Asymptotic methods for the mathematical analysis of coating flows. Advances in computational methods for free-surface films . Theory and practice of coating processes. Analysis and design of internal coating die cavities. Pre-metered coating processes. Self-metered coating processes. Free meniscus coating processes. Spin coating. Control and optimization of coating processes. Index