Elastomeric Adhesion and Adhesives

Abstract

Abstract In a review by Weidner and Crocker, published, under this title, in Rubber Reviews for 1960, there is expressed a series of critical remarks about the development by my collaborators and me of the diffusion theory of specific adhesion of polymers. Unfortunately, the authors of the review made use of only four articles, having ignored a series of recent articles and my special monograph which appeared in 1960. This probably was the cause of the one-sided view of Weidner and Crocker. I will try here very briefly to cite some principles of the diffusion theory of adhesion which the review has disregarded and also I will endeavor to reply to some of the comments of the authors.