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  2. Adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Note 1: Adhesion requires energy that can come from chemical and/or physical linkages, the latter being reversible when enough energy is applied. Note 2: In biology, adhesion reflects the behavior of cells shortly after contact to the surface. Note 3: In surgery, adhesion is used when two tissues fuse unexpectedly. [1]

  3. Mucoadhesion - Wikipedia

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    Mucoadhesion involves several types of bonding mechanisms, and it is the interaction between each process that allows for the adhesive process. The major categories are wetting theory, adsorption theory, diffusion theory, electrostatic theory, and fracture theory. [5]

  4. Group cohesiveness - Wikipedia

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    Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion, social harmony or social cohesion, is the degree or strength of bonds linking members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole. [1] Although cohesion is a multi-faceted process, it can be broken down into four main components: social relations , task relations, perceived unity ...

  5. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Greenwood and Williamson in 1966 (GW) [31] proposed a theory of elastic contact mechanics of rough surfaces which is today the foundation of many theories in tribology (friction, adhesion, thermal and electrical conductance, wear, etc.). They considered the contact between a smooth rigid plane and a nominally flat deformable rough surface ...

  6. Cell adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of cell adhesion. Cell adhesion is the process by which cells interact and attach to neighbouring cells through specialised molecules of the cell surface. This process can occur either through direct contact between cell surfaces such as cell junctions or indirect interaction, where cells attach to surrounding extracellular matrix, a gel-like structure containing molecules released ...

  7. Cohesion (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Adhesion – the attraction of molecules or compounds for other molecules of a different kind; Specific heat capacity – the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius; Heat of vaporization – the amount of energy needed to change one gram of a liquid substance to a gas at constant temperature

  8. Differential adhesion hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Differential adhesion hypothesis (DAH) is a hypothesis that explains cellular movement during morphogenesis with thermodynamic principles. In DAH tissues are treated as liquids consisting of mobile cells whose varying degrees of surface adhesion cause them to reorganize spontaneously to minimize their interfacial free energy . [ 1 ]

  9. Adhesive bonding - Wikipedia

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    According to IUPAC, adhesion is the "process of attachment of a substance to the surface of another substance". Interactions between the adhesive and substrate have a very short range of less than one nanometre. Therefore, good wetting of the materials to be joined by the adhesive in its liquid state is required to produce a high quality bond ...