Professor Marco Marengo gained his BSc and MSc degrees in physics from the University of Torino in 1988 and 1990 respectively. He then received his PhD in energy systems from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1996. He currently works as a full professor at the University of Brighton, and has previously worked as Associate and Visiting Professors at the University of Toronto, University of Bergamo and the University of Alberta. He was the founder and board member of start-up company ICENOVA and founder and president of the university spin-off UNIHEAT. He is on the editorial board of several international journals, including being editor-in-chief of the Atomization and Sprays International Journal, and is a scientific committee or board member for several international conferences.

Professor Joël de Coninck has been a professor at the University of Mons since 1996, where he is head of the Laboratory for Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces. He received hismasters degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Mons in 1978 and 1980, respectively. His PhD in the Theoretical Physics group was obtained in 1983, working on a new probabilistic approach of the renormalization group to describe critical phenomena. He then made long-stay visits to centers such as the University of Oxford, California Institute of Technology and École Polytechnique. He is the member of several scientific associations, and has been the organizer, chairman or co-chairman of various international conferences and summer schools He is the author of 232 publications in peer review journals, some 300 technical reports for industry and around 20 patents.

Explains surface wettability and phase change thoroughly and from a variety of perspectives

Includes contributions from experts in the field

Explores the fundamentals of equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of phase change

Introduction.- The Physics of Phase Change.- Wettability and Interfaces.- Evaporation.- Boiling.- Condensation.- Freezing.- Colloidal Transition.- Nanoscale Effects.