1992 Gordon Conference on Science of Adhesion, August 10-14 at New Hampton, New Hampshire

该奖项提供资金，以帮助汇集在粘连领域工作的各种国际科学家和工程师。近年来，附着力在结构材料、生物材料、膜和保护涂层等领域的广泛应用得到了广泛的认可。对粘合作为一门科学的兴趣受到两个发展的刺激。一个是在多相材料系统中操纵表面和界面的技术的增长，这类系统的整体行为有了显著的改善。另一方面是在表面和界面的分子和原子水平表征方面取得了迅速进展。对于粘附相之间界面的分子或原子水平细节如何与宏观性能特征相关的透彻理解仍在发展中。与此相对应的是，一个完整而普遍的粘附理论的构建仍在进行中。为了实现这一目标，几位科学家不仅需要交流结果，还需要交流想法。他们需要相互挑战，相互教导，并从彼此身上获得洞察力。这可以通过长时间的个人互动来实现。戈登会议为科学家们提供了为期一周的密切接触，是为数不多的提供必要的面对面互动的场所之一。

This award provide funds to assist in bringing together a diverse group of international scientists and engineers working in the area of adhesion. Adhesion's pervasive role in areas as diverse as structural materials, biomaterials, membranes, and protective coatings, to name only a few, has come to be widely appreciated in recent years. The interest in adhesion as a science has been spurred by two developments. One has been the growth in techniques to manipulate surfaces and interfaces in multiphase materials systems, with significant improvement in the overall behavior of such systems. The other has been the rapid progress in molecular and atomic level characterization of surfaces and interfaces. Still being developed is a thorough understanding of how molecular or atomic level details at the interface between the adhering phases are related to the macroscopic performance characteristics. Correspondingly, the construction of a complete and general theory of adhesion is still in process. To achieve this goal, several scientists need to exchange not only results, but ideas. They need to challenge each other, teach each other, and develop insights from one another. This can be best accomplished by an extended period of personal interaction. The Gordon Conference, providing a week of close contact among scientists, is one of the few venues that provides the required face-to-face interaction.