Liquid–Solid Interfaces in Environmental Research
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Aspects in Colloid and Interface Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 192
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wetting; surfactants; adsorption liquid interfaces; superhydrophobicity; amphiphobicity; anti-corrosion coatings; marine environment; biomedical fabrics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Liquid–solid interfaces are present everywhere in different aspects of daily life from food and housekeeping products and wastes to energy storage and industrial waters or fluids, to name a few. In wetting and wettability, liquid–solid interactions play a key role in studying the environment effects on materials involving multiphasic phenomena and requiring a multidisciplinary approach for science and technology to deal with different kinds of materials from synthetic polymers to biopolymers, nanoparticles in dispersions like in foams and emulsions, and biologically induced material degradation processes like fouling or corrosion.
This Special Issue is intended to cover studies related to the role of liquid–solid interfaces and their properties in environmental studies dealing with coatings or bulk materials related to outdoor technologies, like solar panel, marine and water environments, oil recovery, pollution, conservation and restoration in cultural heritage, deicing, and biomedical aspects like viral and bacterial protection.
This Special Issue is dedicated to phenomena where environment and liquid–solid interfacial properties mutually affect how different conditions can influence the performance of a coating material or technology when exposed to a specific environment.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Environmental liquid–solid interfacial studies;
- Adsorption phenomena and kinetics;
- Surface modification and functionalization;
- Thin-film and coating growth mechanisms;
- Applications in environmental remediation and sustainability.
We welcome submissions that utilize innovative experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to address key challenges in this rapidly evolving area of physical chemistry.
Dr. Michele Ferrari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liquid–solid interfaces
- thin-film formation
- surface chemistry
- adsorption kinetics
- molecular dynamics at surfaces
- surface modification
- nanostructures
- surface energy
- interfacial tension
- surface characterization
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