Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Claude Bernard University (Lyon I): Current Research in Adhesion Science

This paper reviews the activity in adhesion science of the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CNRS, URA 417) of the University of Lyon, France. This work essentially concerns treatments and modifications of surfaces by various chemical, electrochemical and physical techniques-electropolymerization, plasma polymerization, sol-gel processes, phosphatation, etc. Examples of the characterization of these surfaces and that of bonded joints are shown. Emphasis is placed on the possibilities offered by the techniques developed in the laboratory (low-energy electron-induced X-ray spectrometry and the three-point flexure test).