Essential Equations for Anaesthesia

Essential Equations for Anaesthesia
Author: Edward T. Gilbert-Kawai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107636604

Covers all of the equations that candidates need to understand and be able to apply when sitting postgraduate anaesthetic examinations.

Natural Surfactants

Natural Surfactants
Author: Neha Saxena
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030785483

This book focuses on the use of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, providing an overview of surfactants, their types, and different physical–chemical properties used to analyse the efficiency of surfactants. Natural surfactants discuss the history of the surfactants, their classification, and the use of surfactants in petroleum industry. Special attention has been paid to natural surfactants and their advantages over synthetic surfactants, including analysing their properties such as emulsification, interfacial tension, and wettability and how these can be used in EOR. This book offers an overview for researchers and graduate students in the fields of petroleum and chemical engineering, as well as oil and gas industry professionals.

Microscale Surface Tension and Its Applications

Microscale Surface Tension and Its Applications
Author: Pierre Lambert
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039215647

Building on advances in miniaturization and soft matter, surface tension effects are a major key to the development of soft/fluidic microrobotics. Benefiting from scaling laws, surface tension and capillary effects can enable sensing, actuation, adhesion, confinement, compliance, and other structural and functional properties necessary in micro- and nanosystems. Various applications are under development: microfluidic and lab-on-chip devices, soft gripping and manipulation of particles, colloidal and interfacial assemblies, fluidic/droplet mechatronics. The capillary action is ubiquitous in drops, bubbles and menisci, opening a broad spectrum of technological solutions and scientific investigations. Identified grand challenges to the establishment of fluidic microrobotics include mastering the dynamics of capillary effects, controlling the hysteresis arising from wetting and evaporation, improving the dispensing and handling of tiny droplets, and developing a mechatronic approach for the control and programming of surface tension effects. In this Special Issue of Micromachines, we invite contributions covering all aspects of microscale engineering relying on surface tension. Particularly, we welcome contributions on fundamentals or applications related to: Drop-botics: fluidic or surface tension-based micro/nanorobotics: capillary manipulation, gripping, and actuation, sensing, folding, propulsion and bio-inspired solutions; Control of surface tension effects: surface tension gradients, active surfactants, thermocapillarity, electrowetting, elastocapillarity; Handling of droplets, bubbles and liquid bridges: dispensing, confinement, displacement, stretching, rupture, evaporation; Capillary forces: modelling, measurement, simulation; Interfacial engineering: smart liquids, surface treatments; Interfacial fluidic and capillary assembly of colloids and devices; Biological applications of surface tension, including lab-on-chip and organ-on-chip systems.

Surface Tension and Related Thermodynamic Quantities of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

Surface Tension and Related Thermodynamic Quantities of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions
Author: Norihiro Matubayasi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439880875

Surface tension provides a thermodynamic avenue for analyzing systems in equilibrium and formulating phenomenological explanations for the behavior of constituent molecules in the surface region. While there are extensive experimental observations and established ideas regarding desorption of ions from the surfaces of aqueous salt solutions, a more successful discussion of the theory has recently emerged, which allows the quantitative calculation of the distribution of ions in the surface region. Surface Tension and Related Thermodynamic Quantities of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions provides a detailed and systematic analysis of the properties of ions at the air/water interface. Unifying older and newer theories and measurements, this book emphasizes the contributions of simple ions to surface tension behavior, and the practical consequences. It begins with a general discussion on Gibbs surface thermodynamics, offering a guide to his theoretical insight and formulation of the boundary between fluids. The text then discusses the thermodynamic formulae that are useful for practical experimental work in the analysis of fluid/fluid interfaces. Chapters cover surface tension of pure water at air/water and air/oil interfaces, surface tension of solutions and the thermodynamic quantities associated with the adsorption and desorption of solutes, and surface tension of simple salt solutions. They also address adsorption of ions at the air/water interface, surface tension of solutions and the effect of temperature, adsorption from mixed electrolyte solutions, and thermodynamic properties of zwitterionic amino acids in the surface region. Focusing on the thermodynamic properties of ions at air/fluid interfaces, this book gives scientists a quantitative, rigorous, and objectively experimental methodology they can employ in their research.

Protein-Solvent Interactions

Protein-Solvent Interactions
Author: Roger Gregory
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1040282512

This work covers advances in the interactions of proteins with their solvent environment and provides fundamental physical information useful for the application of proteins in biotechnology and industrial processes. It discusses in detail structure, dynamic and thermodynamic aspects of protein hydration, as well as proteins in aqueous and organic solvents as they relate to protein function, stability and folding.

Surface Chemistry of Solid and Liquid Interfaces

Surface Chemistry of Solid and Liquid Interfaces
Author: Husnu Yildirim Erbil
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781405119689

A detailed understanding of the chemistry of surfaces and interfaces is required by many research personnel in the chemical and life science industries, as surfaces and interfaces play a critical role in many of the processes they seek to influence. Surface Chemistry of Solid and Liquid Interfaces provides a concise and easily accessible introduction to this fascinating subject. With a smooth evolution of ideas from familiar physical chemistry principles, the student can develop a sophisticated understanding of the chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. The book is also highly relevant to new researchers in industry and newly emerging nanotechnology field who often encounter surface and interface chemistry and need to be conversant with the principles and investigative tools, without being specialists.

Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena

Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena
Author: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387216561

The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research but rather a compendium of principles designed for the undergraduate student and for readers interested in the physics underlying these phenomena.

Applied Surface Thermodynamics

Applied Surface Thermodynamics
Author: Jan Spelt
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 670
Release: 1996-06-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780585157719

Offers a treatment of applied surface dynamics in relation to contact angles and surface tensions, providing a foundation for the subject and detailed presentations of recent techniques. The work supplies a theoretical framework for the study and measurement of surface tensions and contact angles, and acts as a day-to-day guide for laboratory pract