With 16 chapters from world-renowned researchers, this book offers an extraordinary commentary on the burgeoning current research activity in contact angle and wettability
Table of ContentsPreface
1 Carbon Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Hongshuai Hou and Xiaobo Ji
2 Lithium Titanate Based Lithium-Ion Batteries
Jiehua Liu, Xiangfeng Wei and Fancheng Meng
3 Rational Material Design and Performance Optimization of Transition Metal Oxide-Based Lithium Ion Battery Anodes
Qingshui Xie and Dong-Liang Peng
4 Effects of Graphene on the Electrochemical Properties of the Electrodes of Lithium Ion Batteries
Wenzhuo Shen and Shouwu Guo
5 Practically Relevant Research on Silicon Based Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes
Qing Ji, Yonggao Xia, Jin Zhu, Binjie Hu, Peter Mller-Buschbaum and Ya-Jun Cheng
6 Mo-Based Anode Materials for Alkali Metal Ion Batteries
Zhanwei Xu, Weiwei Guan, Yixing Zhao, Kai Yao, Juju He, Xinyue Liu and Xintong Duan
7 Comprehensively Understanding Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Current Status and Outlook
Xue Bai, Tao Li, Umair Gulzar, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Claudio Capiglia and Yu-Jun Bai
8 Graphene in Lithium-Ion/Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Guillermina L. LuqueMaria Laura Para, Emiliano N. Primo, M. Victoria Bracamonte, Manuel Otero, Maria del Carmen Rojas, J. Francisco, Garcia Soriano, German Lener and Andrea Calder ³n
9 Graphene-Ionic Liquid Supercapacitors: Design, Fabrication and Applications
Minjie Shi, Xuefeng Song, Cheng Yang, Yuyu Tian, Kai Tao, Jijin Xu, Peng Zhang and Lian Gao
10 Development of Battery Electrodes Based on Carbon Species and Conducting Polymers
Shahbaz Khan and Abdul Majid
11 Doped Graphene for Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
Jie Yang, Zhenghui Pan, Yuegang Zhang and Yongcai Qiu
12 Processing of Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Electrical Properties
Bhargav Raval, S. K. Mahapatra and Indrani Banerjee
Index
Part 1 Contact Angle Measurement and Analysis 1 A More Appropriate Procedure to Measure and Analyse Contact Angles/Drop Shape Behaviours
M. Schmitt and F. Heib
2 Optical Contact Angle Measurement Considering Spreading, Evaporation and Reactive Substrate
Md Farhad Ismail, Aleksey Baldygin, Thomas Willers and Prashant R. Waghmare
3 Method Development for Measuring Contact Angles of Perfluoropolyether Liquid on Fomblin HC/25 ¯€š®PFPE Film
D. Rossi, S. Dall--‚¬„¢Acqua, S. Rossi, M. Zancato, P. Pittia, E.Franceschinis, N. Realdon and A. Bettero
4 Characterizing the Physicochemical Processes at the Interface through Evolution of the Axisymmetric Droplet Shape Parameters
Ludmila Boinovich and Alexandre Emelyanenko
5 The Interfacial Modulus of a Solid Surface and the Young-- Equilibrium Contact Angle Using Line Energy
Sakshi B. Yadav, Ratul Das, Semih Gulec, Jie Liu and Rafael Tadmor
Part 2 Wettability Behavior 6 Patterned Functionalization of Textiles Using UV-Based Techniques for Surface Modification --Patterned Wetting Behavior
Thomas Bahners, Thomas Mayer-Gall, Wolfgang M lter-Siemens and Jochen S. Gutmann
7 Wettability Behavior of Oleophilic and Oleophobic Nanorough Surfaces in Air or Immersed in Water
Luisa Coriand, Nadja Felde and Angela Duparr
8 Effect of Particle Loading and Stability on the Wetting Behavior of Nanofluids
A. Karthikeyan, S. Coulombe and A.M. Kietzig
9 Dielectrowetting for Digital Microfluidics
Hongyao Geng and Sung Kwon Cho
Part 3 Superhydrophobic Surfaces 10 Development of a Superhydrophobic/Superhydrophilic Hybrid Surface by Selective Micropatterning and Electron Beam Irradiation
Keun Park and Hyun-Joong Lee
11 Hydrophobicity and Superhydrophobicity in Fouling Prevention in Sea Environment
Michele Ferrari and Francesca Cirisano
12 Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Anti-Corrosion of Aluminum
Junghoon Lee and Chang-Hwan Choi
Part 4 Wettability, Surface Free Energy and Adhesion 13 Determination of the Surface Free Energy of Solid Surfaces: Statistical Considerations
Frank M. Etzler
14 Equilibrium Contact Angle and Determination of Apparent Surface Free Energy Using Hysteresis Approach on Rough Surfaces
Konrad Terpi …€šowski, Diana Rymuszka, Olena Goncharuk and Lyudmyla Yakovenko
15 Contact Angle and Wettability Correlations for Bioadhesion to Reference Polymers, Metals, Ceramics and Tissues
Digvijay Singh and Robert Baier
16 The Efficacy of Laser Material Processing for Enhancing Stem Cell Adhesion and Growth on Different Materials
D.G. Waugh and J. Lawrence
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