ON SOME TRENDS IN THE STUDY IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL MECHANICSIN THE WORKS BY REHBINDER AND HIS SCHOOL

The studies of some major fields of physicochemical mechanics initiate d by Rehbinder and developed by his successors are briefly reviewed on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Academician P.A. Rehbin der and the 70 years that have passed from the time of the discovery o f the Rehbinder effect. Among the fields reviewed are: the study of br ittleness under the effect of liquid metals with the aid of a new meth od of electrochemical microscratching of a surface; the discovery of t he mutual influence of a solid phase and a medium and the acceleration of sintering of powder materials in the heterogeneous catalysis proce sses; direct experimental inspection of sintering of newly formed micr ocrystals and the emergence of residual stresses during the hydration hardening of mineral binders; and the data on the key role of lyophili c structural mechanical barrier formed by the interfacial adsorption l ayers as a factor of strong stabilization of disperse systems.