Colloidal dispersions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Russel, William B., Saville, D. A. (Author), Schowalter, William Raymond, 1929- (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Series:Cambridge monographs on mechanics and applied mathematics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A Survey of Colloidal Dispersions
  • Colloidal phenomena
  • Historical notes
  • Recent developments
  • The classification of colloids
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Description of the motion of continuous media
  • Two simple flow fields
  • Steady laminar shear
  • Potential flow past a sphere
  • Characteristics of Stokes flow
  • Singular solutions to the Stokes equations
  • Dynamics of isolated spheres
  • Unsteady translation of spheres
  • Two spheres translating through a quiescent fluid
  • Two spheres in a shear flow
  • Brownian Motion
  • The Langevin equation
  • Brownian motion and diffusion
  • Measurement by photon correlation spectroscopy
  • Pair interactions
  • Brownian dynamics
  • Electrostatics
  • Electrostatic fields
  • Boundary conditions
  • The electric stress tensor
  • The origins of interfacial charge
  • The Gouy-Chapman model of the diffuse layer
  • The diffuse layer near a flat plate
  • The diffuse layer around a sphere
  • Repulsion between charged plates
  • Repulsion between charged spheres
  • Tests of the Gouy-Chapman theory
  • Dispersion forces
  • Intermolecular forces and the microscopic theory
  • Overview of the continuum theory
  • Dielectric response of materials
  • Theory for flat plates
  • Solution of the boundary value problem
  • Interaction potential
  • Effect of electrolyte
  • Calculations for specific materials
  • Geometrical effects: the Derjaguin approximation
  • Direct measurements
  • A simplified approximation for flat plates
  • Interactions between spheres
  • Forces due to soluble polymer.
  • Polymers in solution
  • General features
  • Thermodynamic functions
  • Self-consistent field theory
  • Application to bulk solutions
  • Terminally anchored polymers
  • Structure of isolated layers
  • Interactions between layers: ideal solutions
  • Interactions between layers: good and poor solvents
  • Experimental results
  • Non-adsorbing polymer
  • Adsorbing polymer
  • Structure of isolated layers
  • Interactions between adsorbed layers
  • Electrokinetic phenomena
  • Examples of electrokinetic phenomena
  • A model problem
  • Electrophoresis
  • Scale analysis
  • A thick diffuse layer
  • A thin diffuse layer
  • Electrophoresis with an equilibrium diffuse layer
  • Effects due to deformation of the diffuse layer
  • Measurements of electrophoretic mobilities
  • Comparisons between theory and experiment
  • Electrical conductivity of dilute suspensions
  • Maxwell's theory
  • Diffuse layer effects
  • Comparisons between theory and experiment
  • Dilute suspensions with alternating electric fields
  • The leaky dielectric
  • Maxwell-Wagner theory
  • Behavior of suspensions of colloidal particles
  • Electrostatic stabilization
  • Interparticle potential and criteria for stability
  • Conservation equations for probability densities
  • Initial stage of Brownian flocculation
  • Predictions of the stability ratio
  • Measurements of doublet formation rates
  • Growth and structure of large flocs
  • Doublet formation in shear flows
  • Diffusion dominated flocculation: Pe [double less-than sign] 1.
  • Convection dominated flocculation: Pe [double greater-than sign] 1
  • Growth of large aggregates in shear
  • Criteria for mechanical stability
  • Experimental studies of shear flocculation
  • Polymeric stabilization
  • Criteria for stability
  • Interaction potential between spheres with polymer layers
  • Stability with respect to dispersion forces
  • Critical flocculation point
  • Measurements of critical flocculation point
  • Equilibrium phase behavior
  • The statistical mechanical approach
  • Equilibrium properties of dilute suspensions
  • Perturbation theory
  • Suspensions of hard spheres
  • Disorder-order transition for charged spheres
  • Phase transitions induced by dissolved polymer
  • Application of the perturbation theory
  • Hard spheres in ideal polymer solutions
  • Electrostatically stabilized dispersions
  • Polymerically stabilized dispersions
  • Particle capture
  • Capture efficiency and the filter coefficient
  • Scale analysis
  • Capture of non-Brownian particles
  • Inertial capture
  • Capture with attractive forces
  • Capture with electrostatic repulsion
  • Capture of Brownian particles
  • Experimental measurements
  • Experiments with rotating discs
  • Experiments with packed beds
  • Sedimentation
  • Ensemble average velocities
  • Monodisperse suspensions of spheres
  • Polydisperse suspensions of spheres
  • Theory of batch settling
  • Hard spheres at infinite Peclet number
  • Hard spheres at finite Peclet number
  • Diffusion
  • Gradient diffusion of monodisperse spheres.
  • Equilibrium in the presence of an external potential
  • Principles of photon correlation spectroscopy
  • Initial decay of the autocorrelation functions
  • Wavenumber-dependent diffusion coefficient
  • Rheology
  • Characterization of rheological behavior
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Hard spheres
  • Charged spheres
  • Polymerically stabilized spheres
  • Weakly flocculated dispersions
  • Motivation for pair interaction theories
  • Non-equilibrium microstructure
  • Macroscopic stresses
  • Results and comparison with experiment
  • Measured properties
  • Vector and tensor notation.