This comprehensive reference explores a diverse range of subjects related to coating, food, emulsions, lung surfactants, drug delivery, oil recovery and flotation separations, agrochemicals, defoaming, and more. It presents the accomplishments of over 85 internationally renowned scientists whose work has been influenced by Professor Darsh Wasan's groundbreaking research on interfacial phenomena conducted at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Emulsions, Foams, and Thin Films discusses the role of flocculation, coalescence, and floc fragmentation in determining the rate of destabilization and phase separation in various systems, such as in oil—water and fat—particle emulsions as well as oil—water—surfactatant systems. It explores the dependence of foam stability on the properties of interfacial films and on elastic and viscous properties of films, in both aqueous and nonaqueous systems. It also analyzes the behavior of thin liquid films in varied systems and processes; highlights new findings regarding protein—surfactant interactions at interfaces, detailing recent research on the adsorption behavior in mixed surfactant systems; and more.

Target Audience: Physical, surface, and colloid chemists; cosmetic scientists and technologists; food and pharmaceutical scientists; chemical engineers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Brief Table of Contents:

General Overviews

Emulsions

Foams

Thin Films

Adsorption and Monolayers

General Papers

Index