Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena, Fourth Edition

✍ Scribed by Milton J. Rosen, Joy T. Kunjappu(auth.)

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 615
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in its fourth edition, Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena explains why and how surfactants operate in interfacial processes (such as foaming, wetting, emulsion formation and detergency), and shows the correlations between a surfactant's chemical structure and its action.

Updated and revised to include more modern information, along with additional three chapters on Surfactants in Biology and Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Surfactants, and Molecular Modeling with Surfactant Systems, this is the premier text on the properties and applications of surfactants.

This book provides an easy-to-read, user-friendly resource for industrial chemists and a text for classroom use, and is an unparalleled tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants.   Problems are included at the end of each chapter to enhance the reader’s understanding, along with many tables of data that are not compiled elsewhere.  Only the minimum mathematics is used in the explanation of topics to make it easy-to-understand and very user friendly.

Content:
Chapter 1 Characteristic Features of Surfactants (pages 1–38):
Chapter 2 Adsorption of Surface?Active Agents at Interfaces: The Electrical Double Layer (pages 39–122):
Chapter 3 Micelle Formation by Surfactants (pages 123–201):
Chapter 4 Solubilization by Solutions of Surfactants: Micellar Catalysis (pages 202–234):
Chapter 5 Reduction of Surface and Interfacial Tension by Surfactants (pages 235–271):
Chapter 6 Wetting and Its Modification by Surfactants (pages 272–307):
Chapter 7 Foaming and Antifoaming by Aqueous Solutions of Surfactants (pages 308–335):
Chapter 8 Emulsification by Surfactants (pages 336–367):
Chapter 9 Dispersion and Aggregation of Solids in Liquid Media by Surfactants (pages 368–391):
Chapter 10 Detergency and Its Modification by Surfactants (pages 392–420):
Chapter 11 Molecular Interactions and Synergism in Mixtures of Two Surfactants (pages 421–457):
Chapter 12 Gemini Surfactants (pages 458–470):
Chapter 13 Surfactants in Biology (pages 471–501):
Chapter 14 Surfactants in nanotechnology (pages 502–530):
Chapter 15 Surfactants and Molecular Modeling (pages 531–568):