Surface Engineering for Manufacturing Applications：VOLUME890

Proceedings from a November 28-December 1, 2005 symposium held in Boston, Massachusetts concerned with the control of surface interactions and engineering surface properties in modern manufacturing processes. Forty-three contributions are organized into sections on macro-manufacturing, mechanical and functional properties of thin films, micro/nano manufacturing, photo/laser/plasma based manufacturing, polymeric-biological materials, modeling and simulation, and tribiology. A sampling of topics: deposition of adherent diamond coating on WC-CO substrate, modification on hydrophilic property for harsh environment, metal micromolding with surface engineered inserts, hydrogen radical etching effect on carbon nanotube growth, plasma surface modification of polymeric materials, oscillatory temperature-driven morphological relaxation of surface ripple using weak pulsed laser, and in situ optical tribometry studies of nanocomposite coatings. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)