Liquid Film Coating: Scientific principles and their technological implications

1. Coating science and technology: an overview.- One: Physics and material interactions of coating processes.- 2. Capillary hydrodynamics and interfacial phenomena.- 3. Wetting: static and dynamic contact lines.- 4. Surfactants: static and dynamic surface tension.- 5. Coating rheology: component influence on the rheological response and performance of water-borne coatings in roll applications.- 6. The fate of thin liquid films after coating.- Two: Methods of investigating coating processes.- 7. Experimental methods.- 8. Asymptotic methods for the mathematical analysis of coating flows.- 9. Advances in computational methods for free-surface flows.- Three: Theory and practice of coating processes.- 10. Analysis and design of internal coating die cavities.- 11: Premetered coating processes.- 11a Slot coating.- 11b Slide coating.- 11c Curtain coating.- 11d Surfactant effects in coating processes.- 12: Self-metered coating processes.- 12a Knife and roll coating.- 12b Meniscus roll coating.- 12c Elastohydrodynamic coating systems.- 12d High-speed blade coating.- 13. Free-meniscus coating processes.- 14. Spin coating.- 15. Control and optimization of coating processes.