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Surfactants are in everyday products such as detergents, foodstuffs, and cosmetics. Their molecules have one part which is water soluble and another which is not. This gives them two valuable properties: they adsorb at surfaces, and they stick together in water. This book treats the physical chemistry and physics underlying surfactants.
List of contents
- SECTION I BACKGROUND
- 1: What are surfactants?
- 2: Oil and water do not mix: hydrophobic hydration
- 3: Capillarity, wetting and surface (interfacial) tension
- SECTION II ADSORPTION OF SURFACTANTS
- 4: Adsorption of surfactants at liquid interfaces: thermodynamics
- 5: Adsorption of surfactants at liquid/vapour and liquid/liquid interfaces
- 6: Dynamic aspects of liquid interfaces
- 7: Adsorption of surfactants at solid/liquid interfaces
- 8: Direct characterisation of adsorbed surfactant layers
- SECTION III: AGGREGATION OF SURFACTANTS IN SOLUTION
- 9: Aggregation of surfactants in aqueous systems
- 10: Surfactants in systems with oil and water, including microemulsions
- Section IV: SURFACE FORCES AND THIN LIQUID FILMS
- 11: Surface forces and colloidal behaviour
- 12: Thin liquid films
- SECTION V: DISPERSIONS STABILISED BY SURFACTANTS
- 13: Dispersions of solids in liquids
- 14: Emulsions and Foams
- 15: Rheology of colloids
- SECTION VI: WETTING OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS
- 16: Wetting
- SECTION VII: SYSYEMS WITH PARTICLES AT LIQUID INTERFACES
- 17: Particles in Monolayers and Thin Liquid Films
- 18: Emulsions stabilised by solid particles
- THEMES AND CONNECTIONS
About the author
Bob Aveyard is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hull, where he was Personal Chair in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. He was awarded Colloid and Interface Science Group Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1994 for "contributions to colloid and surface chemistry". Aveyard has 40 years experience teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral levels, contributing to courses for industrial researchers, and directing research sponsored by Government and major British and overseas companies. He spent a sabbatical year with BP Research at Sunbury (1987-1988). He earned his Ph.D. at Sheffield University, and did postdoctoral research in the Department of Colloid Science at Cambridge University.
Summary
Surfactants are in everyday products such as detergents, foodstuffs, and cosmetics. Their molecules have one part which is water soluble and another which is not. This gives them two valuable properties: they adsorb at surfaces, and they stick together in water. This book treats the physical chemistry and physics underlying surfactants.
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I recommend this book not only to undergraduates, graduates and PhD students in colloid and interface science and related areas, but also to researchers in this field. Even established experts will find new insights into the various areas of surfactant science. I am sure readers will be inspired by the way the world of surfactants and their behaviour is presented here.
