Interfacial phenomena and Colloid Stability. Volume 1 Interfacial Phenomena and Colloid Stability: Basic Principles

✍ Scribed by Tharwat F. Tadros

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 358
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This fundamental book on interfacial phenomena forms the basis of application of interface and colloid science to various disperse systems.  These include suspensions, emulsions, nano-dispersions, wetting, spreading, deposition and adhesion of particles to surfaces.  These systems occur in most industrial applications, such as personal care and cosmetic formulations, pharmaceutical systems particularly for controlled and targeted delivery of drugs, agrochemical formulations and enhancement of their biological performance, paints and coatings as well as most food formulations. These applications are described in volume 2.  The text is very valuable for formulation chemists, chemical engineers and technologies who are involved in such applications.  In addition this fundamental text is also valuable for research scientists and Ph.D. students investigating various aspects of interface and colloid science.

• Improving selectivity and activity: Through operating on the interface level.
• Interdisciplinary approach: Enabled only by enough insights in all involved disciplines (surface chemistry, materials science, physics).

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. General introduction
2. Origin of charge at interfaces: Structure of the electrical double layer
3. Electrokinetic phenomena and zeta potential
4. Van der Waals attraction
5. Double layer repulsion
6. Combination of double layer repulsion and van der Waals attraction theory of colloid stability
7. The liquid/liquid interface and surfactant adsorption
8. The solid/liquid interface and surfactant adsorption
9. Polymers at interfaces
10. Interaction between particles or droplets containing adsorbed polymer layers and the theory of steric stabilization
11. Wetting and spreading
12. Dynamic process of adsorption and wetting
13. Particle deposition and adhesion
Index