Colloid Science Principles, Methods and Applications [Hardcover]

Colloidal systems are important across a range of industries, such as the food, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, cosmetics, polymer, paint and oil industries, and form the basis of a wide range of products (eg cosmetics & toiletries, processed foodstuffs and photographic film). A detailed understanding of their formation, control and application is required in those industries, yet many new graduate or postgraduate chemists or chemical engineers have little or no direct experience of colloids.

Based on lectures given at the highly successful Bristol Colloid Centre Spring School, Colloid Science: Principles, Methods and Applications provides a thorough introduction to colloid science for industrial chemists, technologists and engineers. Lectures are collated and presented in a coherent and logical text on practical colloid science.

Preface.

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

List of Contributors.

1 An Introduction to Colloids (Roy Hughes).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Basic Definitions.

1.3 Stability.

1.4 Colloid Frontiers.

2 Charge in Colloidal Systems (David Fermin and Jason Riley).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 The Origin of Surface Charge.

2.3 The Electrochemical Double Layer.

2.4 Electrokinetic Properties.

3 Stability of Charge-stabilised Colloids (John Eastman).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 The Colloidal Pair Potential.

3.3 Criteria for Stability.

3.4 Kinetics of Coagulation.

3.5 Conclusions.

4 Surfactant Aggregation and Adsorption at Interfaces (&llƒN