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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to the nature of colloidal solutions | |
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| The forces involved in colloidal stability | |
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| Types of colloidal systems | |
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| The link between colloids and surfaces | |
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| Wetting properties and their industrial importance | |
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| Recommended resource books | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Surface Tension and Wetting | |
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| The equivalence of the force and energy description of surface tension and surface energy | |
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| Derivation of the Laplace pressure equation | |
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| Methods for determining the surface tension of liquids | |
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| Capillary rise and the free energy analysis | |
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| The Kelvin equation | |
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| The surface energy and cohesion of solids | |
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| The contact angle | |
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| Industrial Report: Photographic-quality printing | |
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| Sample problems | |
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| Experiment 2.1: Rod in free surface (RIFS) method for the measurement of the surface tension of liquids | |
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| Experiment 2.2: Contact angle measurements | |
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| Thermodynamics of Adsorption | |
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| Basic surface thermodynamics | |
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| Derivation of the Gibbs adsorption isotherm | |
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| Determination of surfactant adsorption densities | |
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| Industrial Report: Soil microstructure, permeability and interparticle forces | |
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| Sample problems | |
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| Experiment 3.1: Adsorption of acetic acid on to activated charcoal | |
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| Surfactants and Self-assembly | |
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| Introduction to surfactants | |
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| Common properties of surfactant solutions | |
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| Thermodynamics of surfactant self-assembly | |
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| Self-assembled surfactant structures | |
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| Surfactants and detergency | |
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| Industrial Report: Colloid science in detergency | |
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| Sample problems | |
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| Experiment 4.1: Determination of micelle ionization | |
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| Emulsions and Microemulsions | |
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| The conditions required to form emulsions and microemulsions | |
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| Emulsion polymerization and the production of latex paints | |
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| Photographic emulsions.Emulsions in food science | |
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| Industrial Report: Colloid science in foods | |
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| Experiment 5.1: Determination of the phase behaviour of microemulsions | |
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| Experiment 5.2: Determination of the phase behaviour of concentrated surfactant solutions | |
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| Charged Colloids | |
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| The formation of charged colloids in water | |
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| The theory of the diffuse electrical double-layer | |
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| The Debye length | |
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| The surface charge density | |
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| The zeta potential | |
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| The H8ckel equation | |
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| The Smoluchowski equation | |
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| Corrections to the Smoluchowski equation | |
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| The zeta potential and flocculation | |
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| The interaction between double-layers | |
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| The Derjaguin approximation | |
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| Industrial Report: The use of emulsions in coatings | |
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| Sample problems | |
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| Experiment 6.1: Zeta potential measurements at the silica/water interface | |
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| Van der Waals forces and Colloid Stability | |
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| Historical development of van der Waals forces and the Lennard-Jones potential | |
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| Dispersion forces | |
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| Retarded forces | |
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| Van der Waals forces between macroscopic bodies | |
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| Theory of the Hamaker constant | |
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| Use of Hamaker constants | |
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| The DLVO theory of colloid stability | |
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| Flocculation | |
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| Some notes on van der Waals forces | |
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| Industrial Report: Surface chemistry in water treatment | |
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| Sample problems | |
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| Bubble Coalescence, Foams and Thin Surfactant Films | |
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| Thin-liquid-film stability and the effects of surfactants | |
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| Thin-film elasticity | |
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| Repulsive forces in thin liquid films | |
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| Froth flotation | |
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| The Langmuir trough | |
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| Langmuir-Blodgett films | |
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| Experiment 8.1: Flotation of powdered silica | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Useful Information | |
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| Mathematical Notes on the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation | |
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| Notes on Three-dimensional Differential Calculus and the Fundamental Equations of Electrostatics | |