This exhaustive reference provides a complete and thorough examination of all topics affecting emulsion performance, discussing fundamental characteristics, theories, and applications for liquid—liquid colloidal dispersions. It profiles experimental and traditional measurement techniques in a variety of emulsified systems, including rheology, nuclear magnetic resonance, dielectric spectroscopy, microcalorimetry, video-enhanced microscopy, and conductivity.

The Encyclopedic Handbook of Emulsion Technology reviews fundamental properties and elements of the water—oil interface and the chemical administration of emulsion processes; emphasizes the use of phase diagrams for determining the stability, preparation, and behavior of emulsions; and surveys the hydrodynamic and dynamic aspects of emulsified systems such as Gibbs surface elasticity, droplet behavior, and the kinetics of coagulation, flocculation, and coalescence. It also highlights film rheometry, differential microinterferometry, and piezo imaging spectroscopy techniques; elaborates on crystallization, formed droplets, mechanisms of thermal and viscoinertial loss, and the chemistry of stabilizers in food emulsion systems; and more.

From the Preface: “...The multiplicity of industrial applications of emulsions has catalyzed a better fundamental understanding of these dispersed systems. The academic research has been successfully interfaced to practical concerns in order to facilitate the solutions to emulsion problems...”

Target Audience: Physical, surface, colloid, organic, polymer, medicinal, analytical, food, and cosmetic chemists; biochemists; chemical and environmental engineers; rheologists; physicists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.