Bücher der Reihe Surfactant Science

Emphasizes the importance of surface and colloid chemistry in the manufacture of high-performance ceramics. This title examines processing-property relationships, powder production and characterization, the dispersion properties of powders in liquids, and the surface and colloid chemistry aspects of the widely used forming methods.

A comprehensive treatment of a large family of polymers useful in a wide range of applications in such fields as automotive, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, metal-working, mining, industrial coating, textile, construction, and home furnishings. Summarizes the chemistry and mechanisms; provides basic prepa

Discusses the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents. This book emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging, highlighting simple and complex adsorption systems sorted by the adsorbent as well as the adsorbate.

Here is the first comprehensive reference to examine microbial surface active agents (biosurfactants)and biological emulsifiers as applied in biotechnology and other industries

With significant applications in drug delivery and formulation science, colloids offer the same advantages of typical materials used for release but can be tailored to specific bulk material properties such as release profiles. This book presents the various findings on the application of colloidal properties in drug delivery systems.

Demonstrates the spectrum of strategies, methods, and techniques for the analytical deformulation of modern detergents. This book offers a comprehensive view of various aspects of detergents, including typical ingredients of modern products, testing of detergent formulations, and the determination of detergent ingredients in the environment.

Presents an introduction to the preparation, uses, and physical chemistry of silicone surfactants, focusing on silicone polyoxyalkylene copolymers that are surface active in aqueous and nonaqueous systems. This title covers applications in the manufacture of polyurethane foam, wetting agents, fabric finishes, and polymer surface modifiers.

Deals with fine particle synthesis that ranges from fundamental principles to the most advanced concepts, highlighting mondispersed particles from nanometers to micrometers. This work describes mechanisms of formation and specific characteristics of each family of compounds while identifying problems and proposing solutions.

Presents a comprehensive review of cationic surfactants, emphasizing the organic chemistry aspects. This work discusses the preparation, properties, availability, and commercial uses of a range of these materials.

The first reference to link chemical engineering technologies and surfactant science in suchbreadth of focus, Surfactants in Chemical/Process Engineering features contributionsby major authorities in chemical engineering whose applications have opened important newfields for surfactant use

The production of detergents is a classic multidimensional systemic enterprise, operating within complex, interacting technological-economical-sociopolitical realities. This book presents the developments concerning the industrial production of the main "players" in detergent formulation.

This book is based on the proceedings of the conference "The role of surfactants in new and emerging technology". It examines the position of surfactants in the new growth areas, and describes the needs for surfactant research to facilitate advances in those areas.

This book provides a quantitative assessment of the advances in the area of catalysis and kinetics in microheterogeneous systems. It is an invaluable resource for chemists interested in catalysis and reaction kinetics, and physicists interested in semiconductors, metal clusters and catalysis.

This volume provides an overview of the theory and practical aspects of the detersive process, detergency testing, analysis of detergents, and progress in formulating detergents. It discusses temperature effects and cold water cleaning only from the kinetic and mechanistic points of view.

Presenting both synthesis and characterization protocols, this work collects procedures for the construction and design of nanoparticles and porous metals, and suggests appropriate areas of application. It examines the thermodynamics and kinetics of adsorption involving organic and inorganic liquids, solids, and gaseous media.

Explaining principles essential for the interpretation of data and understanding the real meaning of the result, this work describes carious methods and techniques used to characterize dispersions and measure their physical and chemical properties. It describes a variety of dispersions containing particles ranging from submicron sizes to aggregates and from hard particles to polymer latices.

Offers comprehensive coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of emulsions. This book presents fundamental concepts and processes in emulsified systems, such as flocculation, stability, and coalescence as well as advanced concepts such as inversion in emulsion systems, spontaneous emulsification, and formation of nanoemulsions.

Reviews the fundamentals of the bubble-particle collection phenomenon using a self-consistent approach that helps readers understand the hydrodynamic aspects of bubble-particle collection. This work examines bubble rise velocity, water velocity around air bubbles, the thinning of intervening liquid films and macroscopic processes in froth.

Details the preparation of dispersions in liquids. This title intends to bridge the gap in information for the chemist who is not applications oriented and the chemical engineer who needs to solve problems in the field based on theoretical methods of dispersions of solids, liquids and gases.

Discusses the laboratory and industrial synthesis of nonionic surfactants. This title furnishes coverage of the advances in nonionic surfactant organic chemistry. It analyzes a class of catalysts for the production of surfactants with narrow distributions.

Facilitating the development of important processes that yield increased detersive performance from smaller dosages, this work examines process and chemical technologies used in the formulation of compact powdered detergents. It provides a survey of technological developments fundamental to powder compaction.

Focusing on Lifshitz-Van der Waals, Lewis acid-base, and electrical double layer interactions, this title discusses measuring the surface properties of flat or particulate solids with contact angles of drops of high-energy liquids deposited on solid surfaces or via the thin-layer wicking technique.

Offers an integrated overview of enzyme use in household detergents, from product development and manufacturing to safety and health-related issues. This text details the major types of enzymes, structure-function relationships, life cycle analyses, protein-engineering techniques, cleaning mechanisms, and past, present and future applications.

Covers biosurfactants and surface properties, phase behavior, and orientational change of surfactant mixtures with peptides at the interface. This title deals with adsorption of polymers and biopolymers on the surface and interface, discusses colloidal nanoparticles and their use in biotechnology, and explores bioadhesion and microencapsulation.

Illustrates the effects of dispersions in applications, the means necessary to achieve these effects with optical results, and how to overcome or avoid the difficulties encountered emphasizing the dispersions of solid particles in liquid or solid media.

Covers topics ranging from fundamental studies of solubilization to practical technological applications of the phenomenon. This book reviews the solubilization of organic materials into surfactant aggregates, including micelles, vesicles and admicelles. It is suitable for physical, surface, colloid and surfactant chemists and chemical engineers.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of the electrokinetic particle transport in micro-/nanofluidics, involving electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis, electroosmosis, and induced-charge electroosmosis. It emphasizes the direct numerical simulation of electrokinetic particle transport phenomena, plus several supportive experimental studies. The authors use COMSOL Multiphysics® to conduct all the numerical simulations presented and include the corresponding script files in the book. The book is suitable as a resource for researchers in micro-/nanofluidics and as a supplementary textbook for courses in electrokinetic transport phenomena in micro-/nanofluidics.

Focuses on techniques and reviews established methods for surfactant-based separation processes that can be widely applied in industry. This book describes extraction techniques, micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration and admicellar chromatography, and protein extraction using reverse micelles.

A discussion of the adsorption of inorganics from aqueous solution on inorganic adsorbents. It emphasizes the relationship between adsorption and surface charging, highlighting simple and complex adsorption systems sorted by the adsorbent as well as the adsorbate. The author includes a comprehensive collection of pristine PZC of different materials - covering crystallographic structure, methods of preparation, impurities in the solid, temperature and ionic composition of the solution, experimental methods to determine PZC, and the correlation between zero points and other physical quantities.

Presenting information on developments since the late 1980s, this book offers practical, fundamental material on interfacial electric phenomena in aqueous and nonaqueous systems, as well as their relation to colloid stability. It includes chapters that reflect collaborative efforts with various experts in the field.