Micelles, Membranes, Microemulsions, and Monolayers

✍ Scribed by Avinoam Ben-Shaul (auth.), William M. Gelbart, Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Didier Roux (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 619
• Series: Partially Ordered Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decades, the study of surfactants (detergents, for example) has been profoundly changed by ideas and techniques from physics, chemistry, and materials science. Among these are: self assembly; critical phenomena, scaling, and renormalization; high-resolution scattering, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This book represents the first systematic account of these new developments, providing both a general introduction to the subject as well as a review of recent developments. The book will be a very useful tool for the biophysist, biochemist or physical chemist working in the field of surfactants.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Statistical Thermodynamics of Amphiphile Self-Assembly: Structure and Phase Transitions in Micellar Solutions....Pages 1-104
Micellar Growth, Flexibility and Polymorphism in Dilute Solutions....Pages 105-151
Micellar Liquid Crystals....Pages 153-217
Geometrical Foundation of Mesomorphic Polymorphism....Pages 219-249
Lamellar Phases: Effect of Fluctuations (Theory)....Pages 251-302
Lyotropic Lamellar L α Phases....Pages 303-346
The Structure of Microemulsions: Experiments....Pages 347-393
Lattice Theories of Microemulsions....Pages 395-426
Fluctuating Interfaces and the Structure of Microemulsions....Pages 427-484
Interfacial Tension: Theory and Experiment....Pages 485-519
Critical Behavior of Surfactant Solutions....Pages 521-558
Structures and Phase Transitions in Langmuir Monolayers....Pages 559-602
Back Matter....Pages 603-608

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Biochemistry, general;Physical Chemistry;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films