Research Catalog

Title

Surfactants and interfacial phenomena / Milton J. Rosen.

Author

Rosen, Milton J.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, [2004], ©2004.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Description

xiii, 444 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Using a minimum of mathematics, this book clearly describes the properties and applications of surfactants. It explains the mechanisms by which these materials 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." "Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena, Third Edition provides a resource for industrial chemists and a text for classroom use, and is a tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Surface active agents
• Surface chemistry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Characteristic features of surfactants -- 2. Adsorption of surface-active agents at interfaces : the electrical double layer -- 3. Micelle formation by surfactants -- 4. Solubilization by solutions of surfactants : micellar catalysis -- 5. Reduction of surface and interfacial tension by surfactants -- 6. Wetting and its modification by surfactants -- 7. Foaming and antifoaming by aqueous solutions of surfactants -- 8. Emulsification by surfactants -- 9. Dispersion and aggregation of solids in liquid media by surfactants -- 10. Detergency and its modification by surfactants -- 11. Molecular interactions and synergism in mixtures of two surfactants -- 12. Gemini surfactants.

ISBN

0471478180

LCCN

2004048079

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries