By Drew Myers
From the studies of the 1st version: "The e-book has admirably met its acknowledged objective. the entire gamut of floor and colloid technology has been awarded in a complete demeanour with none undue oversimplification. the writer could be congratulated for his clarity." -Advanced fabrics Now in its moment version, this paintings is still the one most beneficial creation on hand to the complicated zone of floor and colloids technology. specialist Drew Myers walks readers via ideas, theories, and applications-keeping the math to a minimal and providing real-world case reviews to demonstrate key technological and organic techniques. He considerably reorganizes and updates the fabric to mirror the present nation of information within the box, delivering new chapters on absorption and organic platforms as well as the real components of colloid balance, emulsions and foams, monolayer movies, surfactants, and wetting. This revision additionally boasts a stronger index, greater than two hundred new line drawings, common and particular bankruptcy bibliographies, and end-of-chapter difficulties. Geared to scientists, technologists, and scholars facing colloidal and floor structures and their quite a few business purposes, the booklet imparts an figuring out of the elemental elements of surfaces, interfaces, and colloids, that is crucial for powerful ideas in varied parts of chemistry, physics, biology, medication, engineering, and fabric sciences.
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Its kinetics), or both. Overall, the interfacial energy will still be positive, but the changes caused by 10 SURFACES AND INTERFACES: GENERAL CONCEPTS the alteration may prolong the ‘‘life’’ of any ‘‘excess’’ interfacial area. Such an effect may be beneficial, as in the case of a cosmetic emulsion, or detrimental, as in a petroleum–seawater emulsion. The important point is that although thermodynamics is almost always working to reduce interfacial area, we have access to tools that allow us to control, to some extent, the rate at which area changes occur.
Give a qualitative explanation for that phenomenon based on the general rules of molecular motion and the ‘‘spring’’ concepts presented in the chapter. 4. On the basis of the molecular ‘‘spring’’ concept presented above, would one expect to find a correlation among the surface tensions of typical liquids and other intensive characteristics such as boiling point, and freezing point? If so, support your point with some representative values from the literature. Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloids: Principles and Applications, Second Edition.
2. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE While the fields of interface science and colloid science are now known to be intimately related, such was not always the case. In the history of their development, the two branches evolved from somewhat different sources and slowly grew together as it became obvious that the basic laws controlling phenomena related to the two were, in fact, the same. Although the formal studies of interface and colloid science began in the early nineteenth century, humans observed and made use of such phenomena thousands of years earlier.