Molecular and Colloidal Electro-Optics presents cohesive coverage from internationally recognized experts on new approaches and developments in both theoretical and experimental areas of electro-optic science.

Features:

• Covers electro-optic methods including electric birefringence, electric dichroism, and electric light scattering
• Explores applications for characterizing polymers, polyelectrolytes, liquid crystals, amphiphiles, nanoparticles, and biocolloids such as cells, bacteria, phages, and viruses
• Proposes electro-optic methods as an alternative to ultracentrifugation, static and dynamic light scattering, dielectric spectroscopy, and other analytical techniques
• Provides a one-stop reference to the latest theory, methods, and applications in electro-optics

Contents

Electro-Optic Methods Advances in Theory and Methodology

• Polar Nanoparticles
• Thin Double Layer Theory of the Wide-Frequency Range Dispersion of the Polarizability of Nonconducting Spheroidal Particles
• Quantitative Molecular Electro-Optics: Macromolecular Structures and Their Dynamics in Solution
• Computational Methods for Dynamic Electro-Optic Properties of Macromolecules and Nanoparticles in Solution
• Simulation of Electric Polarizability of Polyelectrolytes
• Electrokinetics of Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions
• Electro-Optics of Polydisperse Colloids
• Application of the Scaling Method in Electro-Optics

New Applications

• Rigid Particles, Polyelectrolytes, Biosystems
• Counterions Dynamics as Studied by Electric Light Scattering
• Optical Kerr Effect of DNA Oligomers and tRNA
• The Use of Transient Electric Birefringence to Analyze Curvature in Naturally Occurring, Mixed-Sequence DNA Molecules
• Electro-Optics and Electroporation of Synthetic Lipid Vesicles
• Electro-Optical Analysis of Bacterial Cells
• Geometry of Purple Membranes in Aqueous Medium
• Adsorption on Particles
• Nanoscale Charge Nonuniformity on Colloidal Particles
• A Study of the Anomalous Kerr Effect on Dispersions of Clays in the Presence of Excess Salt and Water-Soluble Amphiphilic Additives
• Structural and Electrical Properties of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers on Colloidal Particles
• Electro-Optics of Composite Nanoparticles
• Structured Systems
• Electro-Optics of Colloidal Crystals
• Electric Birefringence of Liquid Crystalline Polymers
• Frequency-Domain Electro-Optic Response of Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals
• Electro-Optic Behavior of Fullerene-Containing Compounds
• Drying Dissipative Structures of Colloidal Dispersions

Index

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