Colloidal dispersions /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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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.