Basic mechanisms for understanding container-content interactions: a fundamental perspective and application to polymer materials

TL;DR

This paper offers a comprehensive, physics-based overview of container-content interactions, focusing on sorption, permeation, and leaching phenomena at liquid-material interfaces, especially in polymer materials.

Contribution

It introduces fundamental mechanisms and equations describing these interactions, integrating historical research context and emphasizing polymer applications.

Findings

Detailed mechanisms of sorption, permeation, and leaching.

Historical evolution of research methodologies.

Scientific equations modeling container-content interactions.

Abstract

This article provides a comprehensive understanding of the interactions that can occur at the interface between liquids and materials. It describes the phenomena of sorption (adsorption and absorption), permeation and leaching from a physicochemical perspective. In addition to examining these interactions, the historical context, detailing how these phenomena have been studied and demonstrated over time, it provides an understanding of the evolution of research in this field and the methodologies used to study these interactions, with a specific focus on polymer materials. The mechanisms underlying these interactions are presented as well as the equations that describe the processes involved, thus providing a scientific basis for understanding the complexities of container-content interactions.