Training: TEP A

Surface conditioning and modification

TEP A will focus on technologies used to condition or modify surfaces at atomic scale in relation to wetting and dewetting phenomena. Training will be provided on understanding fluid-surface interactions: to control hydrophobic / hydrophilic attractions, slipping flow of liquids near a weakly attractive surface, conformational stability of aqueous solutions, Marangoni effect, gas-fluid interactions, etc. Some of the courses will be outsourced to a specialist centre: the JM Burgers Centre educational program. ESR’s and ER’s will be given an introduction course on the use of facilities related to this program including following apparatus: Automated Contact Angle Measurement, Atomic Force Microscopy, UV Spectroscopy and XPS element surface analysis and Particle Imaging Velocimetry.