Bøger i Surfactant Science serien

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.

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.

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.

Reagents in Mineral Technology provides comprehensive coverage of both basic as well asapplied aspects of reagents utilized in the minerals industry

Offers examples of scientific and technical research impacting studies in porosity and microporosity. This book illustrates methods to forecast the properties of microporous structures for improved electronic, construction, electrical, chemical, and medical applications.

Presents techniques that aim to revolutionize the areas of biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, pharmaceutics and drug delivery. This book details a homogeneous assay for biomolecule detection and capture through duplex colloid particles, as well as methods for utilizing peptides in particle agglutination.

Describes ultramodern approaches to synthesis, preparation, characterization and functionalization of latexes, nanoparticles, and numerous additional colloidal polymer systems. This book communicates critical parameters for method selection, and presents guidelines for controlling structural and colloid properties.

Assembles and analyzes concepts and findings as an inclusive summation of fluid-fluid interfacial phenomena. This book covers excitation, stabilization, and suppression of instability at liquid interfaces. It explains definitions, scales, governing equations, and boundary conditions used in liquid interfacial system research.

Describing novel methods and catalytic strategies to conserve and maintain air, water, and soil quality, this title discusses the role of interface science in environmental remediation. It details approaches to separate, reuse, recover, and treat potentially valuable materials using techniques in ion exchange and adsorption.

Presents the research on the flow and structure of complex particulate sustemsions, the adsorption behavior of polymers, and the consolidation behavior and mechanical properties of films. This title highlights advances in polymer functionality, conformation, and chemistry for biological, biomedical, and industrial 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.

Offering an examination of detergent applications, this volume deals with the various applications of detergent formulations - surfactants, builders, sequestering/chelating agents - as well as other components.

Discusses the synthesis, properties, and potential applications of surfactant compounds and systems. This reference reflects research trends in green surfactants, the production of surfactants using biotechnological methods, and surfactants based on natural building blocks.

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.

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.

Offers a comprehensive treatment of a large family of polymers useful in a range of applications in such fields as automotive, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, metal-working, mining, industrial coating, textile, construction, and home furnishings. This work summarizes the chemistry and mechanisms.

Covers the development and utilization of LCVD procedures in industrial scale applications. This book describes the difference between glow discharge of an inert gas and that of an organic vapor. It explores the various ways of practicing Luminous Vapor Disposition and Treatment depending on the type and nature of substrates.

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.

Examines novel developments in our understanding of the properties and performance of surfactants at air-liquid, liquid-liquid, and solid-liquid interfaces. This edition also presents material on the adsorption of vesicle-forming surfactants at the air-water interface, and fluorinated surfactants having two hydrophobic chains.

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.

Discusses the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents. This book emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging, highlighting simple and complex adsorption systems sorted by the adsorbent as well as the adsorbate.

Reviews a range of fundamental concepts, developments and practical applications in dispersion theory, along with relevant insights from colloidal and interfacial science. This title contains a work on the stabilization of solid-liquid dispersions. It focuses on topics as varied as electrostatics, hydrodynamics and rheology.

Contains a historical overview, considerations of various scenarios of silica adsorption, and results from the research.

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.

Offers knowledge on raw materials, production, economics, properties, formulations, analysis and test methods, applications, marketing, environmental considerations and related research, emphasizing the practical in a shift from the theoretical focus of the literature available.

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.

Presents an examination of how micelles affect reaction mechanisms and reaction rates in organic and inorganic reactions. This work discusses the structural and chemical properties of micelles and the role of thermodynamics, concentration, and additives in forming micelles. It also explains the principles of kinetics used for data analysis.

Faced with many challenges and choices, formulators must choose the composition of detergents carefully. This text enables formulators to meet the demands of the complexity of formulations, economic and sustainability constraints, and reducing the impact of detergents on the environment to which they may eventually be released.