Colloidal Dispersions Under Slit-Pore Confinement

✍ Scribed by Yan Zeng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 132
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science. Beyond colloid science, the system also serves as a model for studying interactions in biological matter.
This work quantitatively investigated the scaling laws of the characteristic lengths of the structuring of colloidal dispersions and tested the generality of these laws, thereby explaining and resolving some long-standing contradictions in literature.

It revealed the effect of confinement on the structuring, independently of specific properties of the confining interfaces. In addition, it resolved the influence of roughness and charge of the confining interfaces on the structuring and as well providing a method to measure the effect of surface deformability on colloidal structuring.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Scientific Background....Pages 5-21
Experimental Section....Pages 23-36
Structuring of Nanoparticle Suspensions Confined Between Two Smooth Solid Surfaces....Pages 37-62
Structuring of Nanoparticles Between Modified Solid Surfaces....Pages 63-81
Structuring of Nanoparticles Confined Between a Silica Microsphere and an Air Bubble....Pages 83-97
Structuring of Nonionic Surfactant Micelles....Pages 99-111
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 113-117
Back Matter....Pages 119-121

✦ Subjects

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics;Physical Chemistry;Nanotechnology;Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity