Books in the Surfactant Science series

Illustrates the effects of dispersions in applications, the means necessary to achieve these effects with optical results, and how to overcome or avoid the difficulties encountered emphasizing the dispersions of solid particles in liquid or solid media.

A comprehensive treatment of a large family of polymers useful in a wide range of applications in such fields as automotive, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, metal-working, mining, industrial coating, textile, construction, and home furnishings. Summarizes the chemistry and mechanisms; provides basic prepa

Presenting both synthesis and characterization protocols, this work collects procedures for the construction and design of nanoparticles and porous metals, and suggests appropriate areas of application. It examines the thermodynamics and kinetics of adsorption involving organic and inorganic liquids, solids, and gaseous media.

Explaining principles essential for the interpretation of data and understanding the real meaning of the result, this work describes carious methods and techniques used to characterize dispersions and measure their physical and chemical properties. It describes a variety of dispersions containing particles ranging from submicron sizes to aggregates and from hard particles to polymer latices.

Emphasizes the importance of surface and colloid chemistry in the manufacture of high-performance ceramics. This title examines processing-property relationships, powder production and characterization, the dispersion properties of powders in liquids, and the surface and colloid chemistry aspects of the widely used forming methods.

Presents current knowledge of intermolecular interactions, the dynamics of wetting and the importance of wettability phenomena in processes and products, detailing the considerations required for wettability in multicomponent systems. Underlying theory and experimental methods are described.

Contains selected invited papers presented at the 10th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution held in Caracas, Venezuela. This title covers phase behaviour of monolayers, contact angle hysteresis, micellar relaxation, micellar catalyzed reactions, polymerization in microemulsions, polymer-surfactant complexation, and asphaltenes.

Reviews the fundamentals of the bubble-particle collection phenomenon using a self-consistent approach that helps readers understand the hydrodynamic aspects of bubble-particle collection. This work examines bubble rise velocity, water velocity around air bubbles, the thinning of intervening liquid films and macroscopic processes in froth.

Details the preparation of dispersions in liquids. This title intends to bridge the gap in information for the chemist who is not applications oriented and the chemical engineer who needs to solve problems in the field based on theoretical methods of dispersions of solids, liquids and gases.

Discusses the laboratory and industrial synthesis of nonionic surfactants. This title furnishes coverage of the advances in nonionic surfactant organic chemistry. It analyzes a class of catalysts for the production of surfactants with narrow distributions.

Facilitating the development of important processes that yield increased detersive performance from smaller dosages, this work examines process and chemical technologies used in the formulation of compact powdered detergents. It provides a survey of technological developments fundamental to powder compaction.

Focusing on Lifshitz-Van der Waals, Lewis acid-base, and electrical double layer interactions, this title discusses measuring the surface properties of flat or particulate solids with contact angles of drops of high-energy liquids deposited on solid surfaces or via the thin-layer wicking technique.

Offers an integrated overview of enzyme use in household detergents, from product development and manufacturing to safety and health-related issues. This text details the major types of enzymes, structure-function relationships, life cycle analyses, protein-engineering techniques, cleaning mechanisms, and past, present and future applications.

Offers a comprehensive treatment of surface chemistry and its applications to chemical engineering, biology, and medicine. This title focuses on the chemical and physical structure of oil-water interfaces and membrane surfaces. It details interfacial potentials, ion solvation, and electrostatic instabilities in double layers.

Covers biosurfactants and surface properties, phase behavior, and orientational change of surfactant mixtures with peptides at the interface. This title deals with adsorption of polymers and biopolymers on the surface and interface, discusses colloidal nanoparticles and their use in biotechnology, and explores bioadhesion and microencapsulation.

Offers comprehensive coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of emulsions. This book presents fundamental concepts and processes in emulsified systems, such as flocculation, stability, and coalescence as well as advanced concepts such as inversion in emulsion systems, spontaneous emulsification, and formation of nanoemulsions.

Surface thermodynamics forms the foundation of any meaningful study of capillarity and wetting phenomena. This second edition offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of this critical topic. It provides students and researchers with fundamental knowledge and practical guidelines in solving real-world problems related to the measurement and interpretation of interfacial properties. New topics include recent progress in Axisymmetric Drop Shape Analysis (ADSA), image processing methods for drop shape analysis, advanced applications and generalizations of ADSA, recent studies of contact angle hysteresis, contact angles on inert fluoropolymers, and an update on line tension and the drop size dependence of contact angles.

Covers topics ranging from fundamental studies of solubilization to practical technological applications of the phenomenon. This book reviews the solubilization of organic materials into surfactant aggregates, including micelles, vesicles and admicelles. It is suitable for physical, surface, colloid and surfactant chemists and chemical engineers.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of the electrokinetic particle transport in micro-/nanofluidics, involving electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis, electroosmosis, and induced-charge electroosmosis. It emphasizes the direct numerical simulation of electrokinetic particle transport phenomena, plus several supportive experimental studies. The authors use COMSOL Multiphysics® to conduct all the numerical simulations presented and include the corresponding script files in the book. The book is suitable as a resource for researchers in micro-/nanofluidics and as a supplementary textbook for courses in electrokinetic transport phenomena in micro-/nanofluidics.

Focuses on techniques and reviews established methods for surfactant-based separation processes that can be widely applied in industry. This book describes extraction techniques, micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration and admicellar chromatography, and protein extraction using reverse micelles.

A discussion of the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents. It emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging, highlighting simple and complex adsorption systems sorted by the adsorbent as well as the adsorbate. The author includes a comprehensive collection of pristine PZC of different materials - covering crystallographic structure, methods of preparation, impurities in the solid, temperature and ionic composition of the solution, experimental methods to determine PZC, and the correlation between zero points and other physical quantities.

Presenting information on developments since the late 1980s, this book offers practical, fundamental material on interfacial electric phenomena in aqueous and nonaqueous systems, as well as their relation to colloid stability. It includes chapters that reflect collaborative efforts with various experts in the field.

Surveys properties, behavior, and techniques that are applicable to mixed surfactant systems. This book presents studies in nanoscale phase separation at mono layers of mixed amphiphiles, nanocapsule preparation through mixtures of cationic and anionic polymer amphiphiles, and the photo degradation of mixed surfactant systems by titanium dioxide.

Presents a scientific basis in surfactant science and advances in the industry for understanding, formulating and testing surfactant-based cosmetics and cosmeceuticals. This book details the function of emulsions, microemulsions, micelles and nanostructures in the formulation of personal care products and decorative cosmetics.

A guide to the fundamental theories, practical applications, formulation technologies and manufacturing aspects of liquid detergents. It embraces advances in the products and technologies of liquid detergents and includes 1800 references, and 300 figures and tables.

Offers a treatment of applied surface thermodynamics in relation to contact angles and surface tensions. This title includes chapters that present the advanced drop-shape methods developed for surface tension and contact angle measurement. It covers the generalized theory of capillarity and thermodynamics of axisymmetric capillary systems.