Bücher der Reihe Surfactant Science

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.