This translation of the second edition of the successful German book Analyse der Tenside incorporates the leading chemical, physico-chemical, and physical methods of surfactant analysis, with special emphasis on infrared spectroscopy. No other book deals with as many analytical methods for this important group of substances in this much depth.

The Handbook of Surfactant Analysis: Chemical, Physico-Chemical, and Physical Methods contains many experimental procedures, with many examples of spectra. It covers not only analytical data, but also the important data relevant to the industrial production and use of various classes of compounds. The fundamental principles and applications of modern spectroscopic and electroanalytical techniques, now playing an increasingly important role as routine methods in analytical practice, are also described.

From the Preface: “...The work is divided into chapters in such a way as to enable the user to find the desired subject quickly...Four years have gone by since the German edition of this book was published. During this short time around 100 important papers on the analysis of surface-active agents have appeared: physico-chemical methods, bulk analysis, analysis of formulations, trace analysis of surfactants in water, sewage sludge, soil...Things are really moving rapidly...”

Target Audience: Industrial manufacturers and researchers of surfactants, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and others concerned with the analysis of surfactants.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Sample Preparation, Isolation and Characterization of Surfactants and Determination of Surface-Active Ions

Elementary Composition and Structural Characteristics: Controlled Degradation

Separation of Mixtures of Surfactants

Selected Methods for the Quantitative Analysis of Surfactants

Spectrometry

Electrometry and Other Physical and Physico-Chemical Methods

References

Index