Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation of Surfactants

Given the enormous interest in surface phenomena in areas ranging from materials science to applications in life science, this volume is a very timely addition to the literature. Emphasis is on surfactants mediating interfacial and molecular aggregation phenomena, and the following topics are reviewed in particular: dissolution rates, equilibrium adsorption, mixing rules, and spreading on a solid surface of surfactants, as well as the role of surfactants in mediating a range of processes, such as the fabrication of various nanomaterials.
Written and edited by leading experts, this volume is dedicated to Professor Dinesh O. Shah, one of the pioneers in this field.

List of contents

I.- Dissolution Rates of Surfactants.- Equilibrium Adsorption of Surfactants at the Gas-Liquid Interface.- Surfactants Containing Hydrolyzable Bonds.- Practical Surfactant Mixing Rules Based on the Attainment of Microemulsion-Oil-Water Three-Phase Behavior Systems.- II.- New Paradigms for Spreading of Colloidal Fluids on Solid Surfaces.- Fluorescence Probing of the Surfactant Assemblies in Solutions and at Solid-Liquid Interfaces.- Surfactant-Mediated Fabrication of Optical Nanoprobes.- Directed Synthesis of Micro-Sized Nanoplatelets of Gold from a Chemically Active Mixed Surfactant Mesophase.- Colloid Chemistry: The Fascinating World of Microscopic Order.

Summary

Given the enormous interest in surface phenomena in areas ranging from materials science to applications in life science, this volume is a very timely addition to the literature. Emphasis is on surfactants mediating interfacial and molecular aggregation phenomena, and the following topics are reviewed in particular: dissolution rates, equilibrium adsorption, mixing rules, and spreading on a solid surface of surfactants, as well as the role of surfactants in mediating a range of processes, such as the fabrication of various nanomaterials.
Written and edited by leading experts, this volume is dedicated to Professor Dinesh O. Shah, one of the pioneers in this field.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rang Narayanan (Editor), Ranga Narayanan (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642089213
• ISBN: 978-3-642-08921-3
• No. of pages: 263
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 263 p. 152 illus.
• Series: Advances in Polymer Science; Advances in Polymer Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; C, Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Materials / States of matter, Materials—Surfaces, Surface chemistry & adsorption, Thin films, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Film, Medical physics, Biophysics, Biological physics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Industrial chemistry & chemical engineering, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Amorphous substances, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Complex fluids