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Updating and expanding their highly popular
Colloidal Systems and Interfaces, the authors now
provide authoritative coverage of the concepts and techniques applicable to suspensions, emulsions,
and foams. Concisely yet thoroughly encompassing the significant developments of the intervening
fourteen years, this book describes a wide range of topics, including particles in liquids, interactions
at interfaces, surfactants, and the technology of emulsions and foams. It includes recently
developed computer-based methods that offer fast, precise measurements of particle concentration, size,
and charge by acoustics; application of acid—base concepts to adsorption; the role of electric charges
in nonpolar media; and the fundamentals of nanotechnology.
From the Preface: “...This book, like the first, is intended for the industrial chemist or
chemical engineer who may not have had a formal university course in colloid and interface chemistry but
finds that the nature of the problems that must be solved necessitates the rapid acquisition of some
knowledge of that subject...”
Target Audience: Industrial chemists, chemical engineers, and other researchers, technologists,
and students concerned with colloidal dispersions.
Table of Contents:
Optical Properties: Light Scattering
Rheology
Kinetic and Statistical Properties
Particle Sizing
Processing Methods for Making Emulsions and Suspensions
Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces
Liquid/Solid Interfaces
Theories of Surface and Interfacial Energies
Experimental Methods of Capillarity
Wetting of Irregular Surfaces
Surface-Active Solutes
Physical Properties of Insoluble Monolayers
Aqueous Solutions of Surface-Active Solutes
Surface Activity in Nonpolar Media
Thermodynamics of Adsorption from Solution
The Relation of Capillarity to Phase Diagrams
Electrical Charges in Dispersions
Forces of Attraction Between Particles
Forces of Repulsion
Dispersion Stability
Polymeric Stabilization
Emulsions
Foams
Technology of Suspensions
Special Systems
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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