Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation of Surfactants

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Narayanan, Ranga (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Series: Advances in Polymer Science, 218
• Subjects: Materials science.; Chemical engineering.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials Science.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

Given the enormous interest in surface phenomena in areas ranging from materials science to applications in life science, this volume is a very timely addition to the literature. Emphasis is on surfactants mediating interfacial and molecular aggregation phenomena, and the following topics are review...

Table of Contents:

• I
• Dissolution Rates of Surfactants
• Equilibrium Adsorption of Surfactants at the Gas–Liquid Interface
• Surfactants Containing Hydrolyzable Bonds
• Practical Surfactant Mixing Rules Based on the Attainment of Microemulsion–Oil–Water Three-Phase Behavior Systems
• II
• New Paradigms for Spreading of Colloidal Fluids on Solid Surfaces
• Fluorescence Probing of the Surfactant Assemblies in Solutions and at Solid–Liquid Interfaces
• Surfactant-Mediated Fabrication of Optical Nanoprobes
• Directed Synthesis of Micro-Sized Nanoplatelets of Gold from a Chemically Active Mixed Surfactant Mesophase
• Colloid Chemistry: The Fascinating World of Microscopic Order.