The colloidal domain: Where physics, chemistry, biology and technology meet, by D. E Evans and H. Wennerström, VCH, Weinheim 1994, 515 pp., DM 98, ISBN 3-527-89525-6

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-7648
• DOI: 10.1002/actp.1994.010450609

✦ Synopsis

Colloid science is an old field that is currently going through a stormy renaissance. When students, and also trained experts from other fields, asked for a good, modern textbook they often received the answer "there isn't one". May be this book is a new answer. The two authors are world leading experts in colloid science and trained teachers. Although their different styles are still recognizable, this book provides a compact and straightforward introduction to many topics current of the interesting field. The presentation of the subject is modern and course oriented: each chapter starts with a concept map, presents the topic in dialog style, and ends with exercises and literature. Self-assembly of amphiphiles, mono-and bilayers, surfactant thermodynamics, micelles, forces in colloidal systems and stability, phase formation, micro-