Abstract
As a means of joining materials, adhesives have been used by mankind for many centuries. However, it is only in the last fifty years or so that the science and technology of adhesion and adhesives has really progressed significantly and the major advances that have been made may be traced from the middle of the 1940’s. The main reason for this is that the adhesives employed in nearly all the technically demanding applications are based upon synthetic polymers and such polymers have only been available for about the last fifty years. Synthetic polymers possess the balance of properties that enables them to adhere readily to other materials and to have an adequate strength so that they are capable of transmitting the applied loads from one substrate to the other.
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