This revised and expanded version of this classic text offers full coverage of the fundamentals of colloid and surface science, including types of colloids and colloidal phenomena; classical and modern characterization and measurement techniques; and applications in engineering, technology, chemistry, physics, and biological and medical sciences. It serves as an ideal instructional text, and is also helpful as a desk reference for professionals in these fields.

From the Preface: “The face of colloid and surface science has changed dramatically in the 10 years since the last edition of this book appeared in print. Advances in instrumentation now make it possible for us to ‘see’ — and, indeed, to manipulate — individual atoms on a surface. Molecular engineering of polymers, surfactants, and particles is now withing reach for fabricating novel advanced materials and for preparing capsules (liposomes) for drug delivery and gene therapy...Colloid and surface chemistry is a truly interdisciplinary subject today, and its content and significance have no bounds...”

Target Audience: Students, researchers, and scientists interested in colloid and surface phenomena.

Table of Contents:

Colloid and Surface Chemistry: Scope and Variables

Sedimentation and Diffusion and Their Equilibrium

Solution Thermodynamics: Osmotic and Donnan Equilibria

The Rheology of Dispersions

Static and Dynamic Light Scattering and Other Radiation Scattering

Surface Tension and Contact Angle: Application to Pure Substances

Adsorption from Solution and Monolayer Formation

Colloidal Structures in Surfactant Solutions: Association Colloids

Adsorption at Gas—Solid Interfaces

van der Waals Forces

The Electrical Double Layer and Double-Layer Interactions

Electrophoresis and Other Electrokinetic Phenomena

Electrostatic and Polymer-Induced Colloid Stability

Appendices

Index