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Surface Properties and their Treatment

Summary

Properties and structural features of surfaces, interfaces and thin layers, their thermodynamics and kinetics of surface specific processes, physiosorption, chemisorption, relaxation and reconstruction.
Surface tension, growth and morphology of crystals, selective evaporation, faseting, parcial melting and surface melting of crystals. Adhesion, cohesion and tribology, Highly dispersed systems, colloids, thin films, emulsions, foams, tensides, zeolites and intercalates, epitaxy and heterogenous catalysis. Surface
engineering, especially modern plasma technology and testing.

Literature

1] Burakowski T., Wierzchoň T., Surface engineering of metals: principles, equipment, technologies. CRC Press, 1999, 592 p.

Advised literature

[1] Luth H., Surfaces and interfaces of solid materials. Springer, Berlin 2001, 559 p.


Language of instruction čeština
Code 636-0813
Abbreviation VaÚP
Course title Surface Properties and their Treatment
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vlastimil Vodárek, CSc.