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Further reading books

[1] Adamson, A.W. and Gast, A.P. (1997). Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, 6th edn. Wiley, New York.

[2] Lyklema, J. (2000). Fundamentals of Interface and Colloid Science, III, Liquid–Fluid Interfaces. Academic Press, San Diego.

[3]A.W.Neumann (1996). Applied surface thermodynamics. Marcel Dekker, NewYork.

[4] A.W.Neumann (2011). Applied surface thermodynamics. CRC press, NewYork.