Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena

Rosen, Milton J. / Kunjappu, Joy T.

4. Edition March 2012
616 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-470-54194-4

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

This book is the premier text on the properties and applications of surfactants, and the fourth edition is updated and revised, including new information on biological, nanotechnological, and molecular modeling aspects. It provides an easy-to-read, user-friendly resource for industrial chemists and a text for classroom use, and is an unparalleled tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants. This accessible text uses a minimum of mathematics in its explanation of topics, making it easy-to-understand and very user-friendly.

Further versions

Now in its fourth edition, Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena explains why and how surfactants operate in interfacial processes (such as foaming, wetting, emulsion formation and detergency), and shows the correlations between a surfactant's chemical structure and its action.

Updated and revised to include more modern information, along with additional three chapters on Surfactants in Biology and Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Surfactants, and Molecular Modeling with Surfactant Systems, this is the premier text on the properties and applications of surfactants.

This book provides an easy-to-read, user-friendly resource for industrial chemists and a text for classroom use, and is an unparalleled tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants. Problems are included at the end of each chapter to enhance the reader's understanding, along with many tables of data that are not compiled elsewhere. Only the minimum mathematics is used in the explanation of topics to make it easy-to-understand and very user friendly.

Preface xv

1 Characteristic Features of Surfactants 1

2 Adsorption of Surface-Active Agents at Interfaces: The E lectrical Double Layer 39

3 Micelle Formation by Surfactants 123

4 Solubilization by Solutions of Surfactants: Micellar Catalysis 202

5 Reduction of Surface and Interfacial Tension by Surfactants 235

6 Wetting and Its Modification by Surfactants 272

7 Foaming and Antifoaming by Aqueous Solutions of Surfactants 308

8 E mulsification by Surfactants 336

9 Dispersion and Aggregation of Solids in Liquid Media by Surfactants 368

10 Detergency and Its Modification by Surfactants 392

11 Molecular Interactions and Synergism in Mixtures of Two Surfactants 421

12 Gemini Surfactants 458

13 Surfactants in Biology 471

14 Surfactants in Nanotechnology 502

15 Surfactants and Molecular Modeling 531

Answers to Selected Problems 569

Index 576

Milton J. Rosen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is also the Director (ret.) of the university's Surfactant Research Institute, a pioneering organization that he founded in 1987.

Joy T. Kunjappu, PhD, DSc, is a chemistry educator, consultant, and former Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. His areas of research interest include surfactant and surface science, organic chemistry, and photochemistry.

M. J. Rosen, Brooklyn College