Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Peter R. Lang, Yi Liu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 556
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 917
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers the science of interfaces between an aqueous phase and a solid, another liquid or a gaseous phase, starting from the basic physical chemistry all the way to state-of-the-art research developments. Both experimental and theoretical methods are treated thanks to the contributions of a distinguished list of authors who are all active researchers in their respective fields.

The properties of these interfaces are crucial for a wide variety of processes, products and biological systems and functions, such as the formulation of personal care and food products, paints and coatings, microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip applications, cell membranes, and lung surfactants. Accordingly, research and expertise on the subject are spread over a broad range of academic disciplines and industrial laboratories. This book brings together knowledge from these different places with the aim of fostering education, collaborations and research progress.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Soft Matter....Pages 3-27
Fundamentals of Electrochemistry, Corrosion and Corrosion Protection....Pages 29-70
Introduction to Depletion Interaction and Colloidal Phase Behaviour....Pages 71-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Thermodynamics of Interfaces in Soft-Matter Systems....Pages 109-136
Dynamics of Surfactants and Polymers at Liquid Interfaces....Pages 137-157
Water–Water Interfaces....Pages 159-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Basics of Statistical Physics....Pages 189-220
Interfaces of Binary Mixtures....Pages 221-278
Polymer Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces....Pages 279-311
Colloidal Hydrodynamics and Interfacial Effects....Pages 313-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Advanced Light Scattering Techniques....Pages 389-412
Scattering Techniques Applied to Soft Matter Interfaces....Pages 413-444
Characterization of Soft Matter at Interfaces by Optical Means....Pages 445-458
Optical Absorption Spectroscopy at Interfaces....Pages 459-490
Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis in Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy....Pages 491-513
Microfluidics: From Basic Principles to Applications....Pages 515-546
Back Matter....Pages 547-555

✦ Subjects

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Optical and Electronic Materials; Polymer Sciences; Physical Chemistry