Supplying more than 300 helpful tables, figures, and equations, Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives Technology explores current industrial problems and their practical solutions...evaluates the similarities and differences in the manufacture and application of common plastics and adhesives versus PSA...discusses the scientific basis, raw materials, and properties of PSA and their laminates...explains the manufacture of the adhesive and the laminate, and the testing and application of these materials...describes both the adhesive and carrier components, as well as the way to combine them...and much more. Containing over 1350 bibliographic citations, Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives Technology is an invaluable tool for physical, surface, colloid, chemical, mechanical, and plastics engineers; materials and polymer scientists; chemical technologists; polymer chemists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.