Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces [Paperback]

This book covers the science of interfaces between an aqueous phase and a solid, another liquid or a gaseous phase, starting from the basic physical chemistry all the way to state-of-the-art research developments. Both experimental and theoretical methods are treated thanks to the contributions of a distinguished list of authors who are all active researchers in their respective fields.

The properties of these interfaces are crucial for a wide variety of processes, products and biological systems and functions, such as the formulation of personal care and food products, paints and coatings, microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip applications, cell membranes, and lung surfactants. Accordingly, research and expertise on the subject are spread over a broad range of academic disciplines and industrial laboratories. This book brings together knowledge from these different places with the aim of fostering education, collaborations and research progress.

Thermodynamics of interfaces.- Basics of Electrochemistry.- Introduction to depletion forces and phase behaviour of colloid mixtures.- Interfaces of binary mixtures.- Dynamics of surfactants and polymers at liquid interfaces.- Dynamics of adsorbed and grafted polymer layers.- Particles at interfaces.- Corrosion protection and fundamentals of corrosion.- Water-water Interfaces.- Surface sensitive optical and scattering techniques.- Advanced light scattering techniques.- Optical spectroscopy probing vibrational and electronic transitions at interfaces.- Nonlinear optical spectroscopy and microscopy  why order matters.- Interfacial rheology and interfacial rheometry.- Microfluidics from basic principles to applications.- Basics of statistical mechanics.- Polymer physics at surfaces and interfaces.- Colloidal Hydrodynamics and interfacial effects.

Peter Lang is a senior scientists at Forschungszentrum J?lich, where he is focusing on interactions, structure formation and dynamics in colloil%