Colloidal Dispersions Under Slit-Pore Confinement

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science. Beyond colloid science, the system also serves as a model for studying interactions in biological matter.
This work quantitatively investigated the scaling laws of the characteristic lengths of the structuring of colloidal dispersions and tested the generality of these laws, thereby explaining and resolving some long-standing contradictions in literature.

It revealed the effect of confinement on the structuring, independently of specific properties of the confining interfaces. In addition, it resolved the influence of roughness and charge of the confining interfaces on the structuring and as well providing a method to measure the effect of surface deformability on colloidal structuring.

List of contents

Scientific background.- Experimental Section.- Structuring of nanoparticle suspensions confined between two smooth solid surfaces.- Structuring of nanoparticles between modified solid surfaces.- Structuring of nanoparticles confined between a silica microsphere and an air bubble.- Structuring of nonionic surfactant micelles.

About the author

Dr. Yan Zeng
North Carolina State University
Engineering Building I
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Raleigh, NC27695-7907
USA

Summary

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science. Beyond colloid science, the system also serves as a model for studying interactions in biological matter.
This work quantitatively investigated the scaling laws of the characteristic lengths of the structuring of colloidal dispersions and tested the generality of these laws, thereby explaining and resolving some long-standing contradictions in literature.

It revealed the effect of confinement on the structuring, independently of specific properties of the confining interfaces. In addition, it resolved the influence of roughness and charge of the confining interfaces on the structuring and as well providing a method to measure the effect of surface deformability on colloidal structuring.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Zeng
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2012
• EAN: 9783642349904
• ISBN: 978-3-642-34990-4
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 13 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 332 g
• Illustrations: XX, 124 p.
• Series: Springer Theses; Springer Theses
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; B, Mathematische Physik, Kybernetik und Systemtheorie, Complex systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Nanotechnology, Physics and Astronomy, Physical Chemistry, Interfaces (Physical sciences), Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Surface and Interface and Thin Film, Thin films, Surfaces (Physics), Dynamical systems, Dynamics & statics, Statistical physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Amorphous substances, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Complex fluids