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

该奖项提供资金，以协助汇集一个 国际科学家和工程师的多元化群体 在粘合领域工作。 附着力的普遍作用， 包括结构材料、生物材料、 膜和保护涂层，仅举几例， 近年来受到了广泛的重视。 利息 粘合作为一门科学，受到两个发展的推动。 其中之一是操纵表面技术的发展 多相材料系统中的界面， 在这种整体行为的显着改善 系统. 另一个是分子生物学的快速发展， 以及表面和界面的原子级表征。 仍在开发的是一个彻底的了解如何 分子或原子水平的细节，在界面之间的 粘附相与宏观性能有关 特色 相应地， 完整和普遍的粘附理论仍在研究中。 为了实现这一目标，几位科学家需要交流， 只有结果，但想法。 他们需要互相挑战， 互相学习，互相启发。 这 最好是通过一段时间的个人 互动 戈登会议，提供了一个星期的关闭 科学家之间的接触，是为数不多的场所之一， 提供所需的面对面互动。

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.