From the basics to the most recent developments–a concise review of suspensions, emulsions, and foams!

Colloidal Dispersions: Suspensions, Emulsions, and Foams provides authoritative coverage of the concepts and techniques applicable to suspensions, emulsions, and foams. Concisely yet thoroughly encompassing the significant developments of the past fourteen years, this book describes a wide range of topics, including particles in liquids, interactions at interfaces, surfactants, and the technology of emulsions and foams.

Coverage includes:

• Updated material and major advances in the field, including the development of new equipment
• In-depth instruction on methods for producing emulsions and suspensions
• Extensive industrial and practical applications of general principles
• Expanded sections on particle sizing, nonpolar dispersions, and polymer stabilization

Industrial chemists and chemical engineers will discover among the book’s insights recently developed computer-based methods that offer fast, precise measurements of particle concentration, size, and charge by acoustics, application of acid-base concepts to adsorption, the role of electric charges in nonpolar media, and the fundamentals of nanotechnology.

Contents

Introduction

1. Optical Properties: Light Scattering.
2. Rheology.
3. Kinetic and Statistical Properties.
4. Particle Sizing.
5. Processing Methods for Making Emulsions and Suspensions.
6. Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces.
7. Liquid/Solid Interfaces.
8. Theories of Surface and Interfacial Energies.
9. Experimental Methods of Capillarity.
10. Wetting of Irregular Surfaces.
11. Surface-Active Solutes.
12. Physical Properties of Insoluble Monolayers.
13. Aqueous Solutions of Surface-Active Solutes.
14. Surface Activity in Nonpolar Media.
15. Thermodynamics of Adsorption from Solution.
16. The Relation of Capillarity to Phase Diagrams.
17. Electrical Charges in Dispersions.
18. Forces of Attraction Between Particles.
19. Forces of Repulsion.
20. Dispersion Stability.
21. Polymeric Stabilization.
22. Emulsions.
23. Foams.
24. Technology of Suspensions.
25. Special Systems

Appendices
Index

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