Radiotracer Studies of Interfaces

Radiotracer Studies of Interfaces
Author: G. Horanyi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2004-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080474101

Radiotracer Studies of Interfaces presents a selection of examples illustrating the application of radiotracer studies for different types of interfaces. The value of radiotracer studies in fields such as food chemistry, corrosion of metals, neurochemistry, biology and catalysis is revealed. Separate chapters are devoted to the environmental problems connected with nuclear reactors and with the nuclear industry in general. The book also presents efforts to minimize and avoid the risk of radioactive contamination in the environment by describing new approaches to the problem. Demonstrates the use of radiotracers Contains a detailed discussion of double-layer phenomena Separate chapters are devoted to the most important branches of science where radiotracer study of interfacial phenomena plays an important role

Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity

Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity
Author: Stefano Antonio Mezzasalma
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2008-07-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080557988

Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity illustrates the recent picture of statistical physics of polymers and polymer solutions that emerges from some paradigms of contemporary science joint together. Among its principal aims are discussing the consequences of a novel self-diffusion theory, which benefits from an extension towards relativistic-like principles, and the generalization of usual concepts met in polymer science in terms of geometry alone. The monograph gives the whole fundamentals necessary to handle the view proposed, which is set in the final chapters. All the formers see about to provide the reader with a comprehensive treatation of the necessary fundamentals of classical, relativistic, quantum and statistical mechanics. Among the most important mechanical theories ever developed, a chapter on the Brownian movement and another on macromolecules prepare the ground that is specific to face universality and scaling behaviors in polymer solutions. The scope of the book is therefore two-fold: On the one hand, it wishes to involve the readers and scholars into a new research on polymer physics and chemistry. On the other, to get close chemical physicists and physical chemists to disciplines which, traditionally, are far from their direct fields of interest. - Cross-disciplinarity - Novelty - Potentiality

Theory of Colloid and Interfacial Electric Phenomena

Theory of Colloid and Interfacial Electric Phenomena
Author: Hiroyuki Ohshima
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080465145

Theory of Colloid and Interfacial Electric Phenomena is written for scientists, engineers, and graduate students who want to study the fundamentals and current developments in colloid and interfacial electric phenomena, and their relation to stability of suspensions of colloidal particles and nanoparticles in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The primary purpose of this book is to help understand how the knowledge on the structure of electrical double layers, double layer interactions, and electrophoresis of charged particles will be important to understand various interfacial electric phenomena and to improves the reader's skill and save time in the study of interfacial electric phenomena. Also providing theoretical background and interpretation of electrokinetic phenomena and many approximate analytic formulas describing various colloid and interfacial electric phenomena, which will be useful and helpful to understand these phenomena analyse experimental data. Showing the fundamentals and developments in the field First book to describe electrokinetics of soft particles Providing theoretical background and interpretation of electrokinetic phenomena

Sorbent Deformation

Sorbent Deformation
Author: Andrei V. Tvardovskiy
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2006-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080465943

Sorbent Deformation discusses the theoretical and experimental study of the deformation of solid bodies during their ad- or absorptive interaction with gases or vapours. The book is the first monograph which deals with the problem of ad- and absorbent non-inertness, compiled from a 15-year study by the author on swelling or deformed ad- and absorptive systems. The results from the study are of practical and scientific value to engineers and scientists in the areas of physical chemistry, chemical engineering and environmental control. They could also be of interest to those looking to solve problems in such areas as forecasting, technological processing and fuel drying stimulation. · Provides novel, practical information on the behaviour of the systems used in environment control · Presents the derivation of the equation describing single- and multicomponent adsorption and absorption in swelling / deformed systems· Identifies the results of direct measurements on ad-and absorbent deformations (charcoals, clay minerals, organic cation substituted clay minerals, etc.) with a new high sensitivity method

Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science -

Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science -
Author: Arthur T. Hubbard
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1580
Release: 2002-07-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780824707576

This comprehensive reference collects fundamental theories and recent research from a wide range of fields including biology, biochemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and computer, materials, surface, and colloid science-providing key references, tools, and analytical techniques for practical applications in industrial, agricultural, and forensic processes, as well as in the production of natural and synthetic compounds such as foods, minerals, paints, proteins, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and soaps.

Particles at Interfaces

Particles at Interfaces
Author: Zbigniew Adamczyk
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2006-12-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080464955

Particles at Interfaces presents recent developments in this growing field and is devoted entirely to the subject of particle transport, deposition and structuring on boundary surfaces. The complex problems which have been studied include concentrated systems of polydisperse and non-spherical particles, bio-particles such as DNA fragments, proteins, viruses, bacteria, cells, polymers, etc. These complex structures undergo transformations under the action of surface forces. Particles at Interfaces provides readily accessible reference data and equations for estimating basic effects, and is mainly addressed to students and young scientists. Consequently, most approaches are of a phenomenological nature, enabling one to derive concrete expressions which describe the basic physics of the problem under consideration. To facilitate access to the information contained in the book most of the relevant formulae and results are compiled in Tables, accompanied with appropriate diagrams. The math is limited to the necessary minimum with emphasis on the physics of the phenomena, defining why they occur, what the kinetics of the processes and the practical implications are. - Fill a substantial gap in the subject of particle transport, deposition and structuring on boundary surfaces - Combines traditional theories of electrostatics, hydrodynamics and transport with new approaches - Provides readily accessible reference data and equations for estimating basic effects

Colloid and Interface Science

Colloid and Interface Science
Author: Pallab Ghosh
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 812033857X

Provides a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts and applications of colloid and interface science. It deals with the colloid chemistry and interfacial phenomena at both fluid-fluid and solid-fluid interfaces. The emerging areas of colloid and interface science such as nanomaterials and nanotechnology are also discussed.

The Properties of Water and Their Role in Colloidal and Biological Systems

The Properties of Water and Their Role in Colloidal and Biological Systems
Author: Carel J. Van Oss
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0123743036

The book also treats the surface properties of apolar and polar molecules, polymers, particles and cells, as well as their mutual interaction energies, when immersed in water, under the influence of the three prevailing non-covalent forces, i.e., Lewis acid-base (AB), Lifshitz-van der Waals (LW) and electrical double layer (EL) interactions. The polar AB interactions, be they attractive or repulsive, typically represent up to 90% of the total interaction energies occurring in water. Thus the addition of AB energies to the LW + EL energies of the classical DLVO theory of energy vs. distance analysis makes this powerful tool (the Extended DLVO theory) applicable to the quantitative study of the stability of particle suspensions in water.-

Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, 2004 Update Supplement

Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, 2004 Update Supplement
Author: P. Somasundaran
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482299623

Appending the Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science by 42 entries as well as 3800 new citations, 1012 equations, and 485 illustrations and chemical structures, this important supplement summarizes a constellation of new theoretical and experimental findings related to chemical characterization, mechanisms, interfacial behavior, methods and mo