The techniques available to engineers for the modification of amaterial's wettability characteristics are invariablyextremely complex and difficult to control. The use of lasers,however, has been shown to provide a clean, accurate, and versatileway of modifying and improving the wettability characteristics of awide range of engineering materials. Lawrence and Li have amplydemonstrated the practicability of employing different types oflasers to effect changes in the wettability charactersitics of anumber of engineering materials. Laser Maodification of the Wettability Characteristics ofEngineering Materials makes extensive and comparative studiesof the behavior and properties of composite, ceramic, metallic, andpolymeric materials. The final chapter, practical applications ofthe use of lasers in modifying material behavior, is particularlyuseful as it puts this cutting edge research in industrialcontext. The authors have extended the scope of their industrially basedresearch to present a very useful, coherent source for engineers.This excellen volume will be of great value to all those engineersand materials technologists working in industry or researchinstitutions interested in the latest developments of propertymanipulation. Tribologists, surface technologists, those concernedwith protective coatings and bonding materials, as well as anyoneinterested in laser technology, opt-electronics, marking, and laserengraving will find Laser Modification a useful guide.weiterlesen