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ADHESION AND UNION PROCESSES OF MATERIALS
Adhesion and joining of materials
Master in Materials Science
Adhesion is critical in most of materials when processes involving corrosion, adsorption, surface contamination and catalysis are important. Adhesion principles allow design the processing of materials and durability, ageing or degradation can be controlled. On the other hand, the joining of materials needs the input of the principles of Adhesion for assuring adequate performance in several applications in building and construction, transportation vehicles, alternative energy systems, plastics and lamination, packaging, footwear and electronic industry among other.
To the best of our knowledge, there is no courses dealing with joining of materials nor in the formulation and design of adhesives, these aspects are currently essential in Comunidad Valenciana and in the Spanish and European industry as well.
Specific Competences:>>specialisation
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1- To explain the basic principles of adhesion.
2- Distinction among adhesives, coatings and sealants.
3- Description of the kind of surface treatments of materials for improving adhesion. Design of adhesive joints from adhesion mechanisms.
4- Apply the adhesion concepts to different joints of materials for different applications (footwear, construction, medicine, packaging, etc).
Basic references :
I. Skeist. "Handbook of Adhesives". Van Nostrand, NJ, USA. 1990.
A.J. Kinloch. Adhesion and Adhesives. Science and Technology. Chapman and Hall, London. 1987.
