Measurement of forces between two mica surfaces in aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solutions

Wetting properties of glycerol on silicon, native SiO2, and bulk SiO2by scanning polarization force microscopy

“…[3][4][5][6][7] The growth of this field was benefited from the extensive work devoted to the development of experimental techniques for the direct measurement of surface forces. [8][9][10] The advent of scanning probe microscopy techniques at the end of the twentieth century opened new possibilities for the quantification of wetting properties at the micro-and nanoscale, e.g. by the direct determination of contact angles on microscopic liquid droplets.…”

Hydrodynamic thickness of petroleum oil adsorbed layers in the pores of reservoir rocks

“…Many researchers have investigated the measurements of polymer layers thickness adsorbed on solid surfaces. Several techniques have been applied to determine the thickness of the adsorbed layers, such as macroscopic flow methods, disjoining pressure measurements, surface force methods, and photon correlation spectroscopy [8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

The Simultaneous Determination of the Forces and Viscoelastic Properties of Adsorbed Polymer Layers

“…The study of surface forces became routinely easy with the development of the force balance approaches pioneered by Tabor and Winterton (1) and improved by Israelachvili (2)(3)(4) in his surface force apparatus (SFA). These and similar techniques were designed to determine forces which, in essence, gave access to the equilibrium interaction between surfaces and, by implication, between particles.…”