Join us for a series of lectures featuring materials sciences expert Prof. Rigoberto Advincula of Case Western Reserve University! Our new series with Prof. Advincula aims to a beginner's friendly first foray into a new materials science field each month. By exploring the basics and fundamental science of each featured field, we hope to expand your appreciation for the research and engineering helping us craft the world of tomorrow by improving the one we live in today. Our next entry in this series is focused on surfaces and interfacial phenomena. The science of interfacial phenomena is concerned in investigating what occurs at the boundary between two phases of matter. The interface between phases can have very different properties than each phase in bulk and have been the subject of investigation for many research fields such as pharameceuticals. For example, drugs must either interact with or pass right through a number of interfaces in our body before they can take effect in the way we intended. Understanding how the drug interacts with all the interfaces it encounters in our body affects its stability and its ultimate functionality. Join us as Prof. Advincula surveys the field of research and development in surfaces and interfacial phenomena and gives us a tour on how we use this work to usher in next-generation technologies via the latest techniques in chemical, electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering.