Patterns, Entropy, Surface Textures and Related Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid advances of nanotechnology in materials science have led to the development of extremely useful texture-controlled surfaces that are now ubiquitous in our daily lives. Textured surfaces are also important for modern microbial elimination, semiconductor processing, information transfer, self-cleaning processes, machining, fracture, friction and wear, color, reflectivity, adhesion, cook-wear, heat transfer, catalysis, drug development, fluid-flow, aerodynamics, and fractal representations.

Surface science has thus become the key value-added branch of every core science and technology discipline. Surfaces may be thought to be associated with energy and entropy that is associated with their texture and chemistry. Atomic diffuseness is also often a key feature of nanoscale surfaces. Surfaces are now routinely described by their autocorrelation lengths and root mean-squared roughness. This journal issue is directed at the assessment of such surfaces, and their properties and usefulness.

A wide spectrum of articles is solicited for this issue—from engineering, physics, materials science, heat transfer, fluid flow, turbulence, drug development, chemistry, and food processing.

• Description of surface texture
• Techniques for topographic measurement of surfaces
• Methods to create special surface textures in hard and soft materials
• Coatings and surface asperities
• Statistical techniques relevant to surfaces
• Self-cleaning materials
• Friction, fracture, and machining
• Catalyst surfaces
• Chemical functionality and surface structure
• Texture-based drug development
• Reflectivity
• Turbulence
• Fractal methods
• Surface finishing techniques
• Heat transfer
• Food processing
• Pattern formation and entropy generation
• Novel biomimetic surfaces
• Aerodynamics and entropy
• And other related topics

Prof. Dr. Jainagesh (Jai) Sekhar
Guest Editor

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