About the Editors

Dr Rajiv Kohli is a leading expert with The Aerospace Corporation in contaminant particle behavior, surface cleaning and contamination control. At the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, he provides technical support for contamination control related to ground-based and manned spaceflight hardware, as well as for unmanned spacecraft. His technical interests are in particle behavior, precision cleaning, solution and surface chemistry, advanced materials and chemical thermodynamics. Dr Kohli was involved in developing solvent-based cleaning applications for use in the nuclear industry and he also developed an innovative microabrasive system for a wide variety of precision cleaning and microprocessing applications in various industries. He is the principal editor of the book series Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning; the first five volumes in the series were published in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, respectively, and this book is the sixth volume in the series. Previously, Dr Kohli coauthored the book Commercial Utilization of Space: An International Comparison of Framework Conditions, and he has published more than 200 technical papers, articles and reports on precision cleaning, advanced materials, chemical thermodynamics, environmental degradation of materials, and technical and economic assessment of emerging technologies. Dr Kohli was recently recognized for his contributions to NASA’s Space Shuttle Return to Flight effort with the Public Service Medal, one of the agency’s highest awards.

Dr Kashmiri Lal “Kash” Mittal was associated with IBM from 1972 to 1994. Currently, he is teaching and consulting in the areas of surface contamination and cleaning and in adhesion science and technology. He is the founding editor of the new journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives which made its debut in 2013. He cofounded the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology in 1987 and was its editor-in-chief until April 2012. Dr Mittal is the editor of more than 110 published books, many of them dealing with surface contamination and cleaning. He was recognized for his contributions and accomplishments by the worldwide adhesion community which organized in his honor, on his fiftieth birthday, the first International Congress on Adhesion Science and Technology in Amsterdam in 1995. The Kash Mittal Award was instituted in 2002 in his honor for his extensive efforts and significant contributions in the field of colloid and interface chemistry. Among his numerous awards, Dr Mittal was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa by the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland in 2003. In 2010, he was honored by both the adhesion and surfactant communities on the occasion of the publication of his 100th edited book.