| 1 | Nature of Colloidal Dispersions | |
| Technological and biological significance of colloidal dispersions | 4 |
| Classification of colloids | 5 |
| Some typical colloidal dispersions | 6 |
| Brownian motion and diffusion | 24 |
| Electrical charge and colloid stability | 33 |
| Effect of polymers on colloid stability | 40 |
| 2 | Thermodynamics of Surfaces | |
| Surface energy and its consequences | 45 |
| Thermodynamics of surfaces | 56 |
| The Gibbs adsorption equation | 63 |
| Thermodynamic behaviour of small particles | 72 |
| Equilibrium shape of a crystal | 81 |
| Behaviour of liquids in capillaries | 84 |
| Homogeneous nucleation | 93 |
| Limits of applicability of the Kelvin and Young-Laplace equations | 97 |
| Contact angle and wetting behaviour | 100 |
| Measurement of surface tension and contact angle | 112 |
| 3 | Response to External Fields and Stresses | |
| Response to gravitational and centrifugal fields | 116 |
| Response of a dielectric material to an electric field | 124 |
| Response to electromagnetic (light) waves | 133 |
| Response to a mechanical stress | 144 |
| 4 | Transport Properties of Suspensions | |
| The mass conservation equation | 158 |
| Stress in a moving fluid | 160 |
| Stress and velocity field in a fluid in thermodynamic equilibrium | 162 |
| Relationship between the stress tensor and the velocity field | 164 |
| The Navier-Stokes equations | 167 |
| Methods for measuring the viscosity | 170 |
| Sedimentation of a suspension | 178 |
| Brownian motion revisited | 181 |
| The flow properties of suspensions | 188 |
| 5 | Particle Size and Shape | |
| General considerations | 201 |
| Direct microscopic observation | 204 |
| Particle size distribution | 213 |
| Theoretical distribution functions | 221 |
| Sedimentation methods of determining particle size | 226 |
| Electrical pulse counters | 232 |
| Light scattering methods | 236 |
| Hydrodynamic methods | 246 |
| Acoustic methods | 250 |
| Summary of sizing methods | 255 |
| 6 | Adsorption Onto Solid Surfaces | |
| Vacuum characterization methods | 262 |
| Some non-vacuum techniques | 269 |
| Adsorption and desorption at the solid-gas interface | 277 |
| Adsorption at the solid-liquid interface | 287 |
| Adsorption of neutral polymers | 293 |
| 7 | Electrified Interfaces: The Electrical Double Layer | |
| The electrostatic potential of a phase | 305 |
| The mercury-solution interface | 309 |
| Potential distribution at a flat surface - the Gouy-Chapman model | 317 |
| Comparison with experiment | 328 |
| Adsorption of (uncharged) molecules at the mercury-solution interface | 341 |
| Limitations of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation | 342 |
| The silver iodide-solution interface | 344 |
| Other Nernstian surfaces | 355 |
| Mechanisms of surface charge generation | 356 |
| The double layer on oxide surfaces | 361 |
| The double layer around a sphere | 365 |
| The double layer around a cylinder | 369 |
| 8 | Electrokinetics and the Zeta Potential | |
| Equilibrium double layer theory of electrokinetics | 375 |
| Reciprocity relations | 384 |
| The surface of shear | 384 |
| Measuring electrokinetic properties | 387 |
| Limitations of the elementary theory | 393 |
| The standard double layer model | 395 |
| Double layer dynamics | 400 |
| Electrokinetic effects in thin double layer systems | 408 |
| Numerical solutions of the linearized electrokinetic equations | 415 |
| Electrokinetics in alternating fields | 416 |
| Validity of the electrokinetic equations | 426 |
| 9 | Association Colloids | |
| The critical micellization concentration (c.m.c) | 435 |
| Factors affecting the c.m.c | 438 |
| Equilibrium constant treatment of micelle formation | 443 |
| Thermodynamics of micelle formation | 450 |
| Spectroscopic techniques for investigating micelle structure | 460 |
| Micellar dynamics | 466 |
| Molecular packing and its effect on aggregate formation | 472 |
| Statistical thermodynamics of chain packing in micelles | 476 |
| 10 | Adsorption at Charged Interfaces | |
| Adsorption of potential determining ions | 485 |
| Detection of Stern layer adsorption | 490 |
| The oxide-solution interface | 501 |
| Adsorption of multivalent ions | 509 |
| Surfactant adsorption | 518 |
| 11 | The Theory of Van Der Waals Forces | |
| London theory | 536 |
| Pairwise summation of forces (Hamaker theory) | 539 |
| Retardation effects in Hamaker theory | 547 |
| The Deryaguin approximation | 549 |
| Modern dispersion force theory | 552 |
| Numerical computation of interaction energy | 563 |
| Influence of electrolyte concentration | 571 |
| Theoretical estimation of surface properties | 574 |
| 12 | Double Layer Interaction and Particle Coagulation | |
| Surface conditions during interaction | 582 |
| Free energy of formation of a double layer | 584 |
| Overlap of two flat double layers | 586 |
| Interaction between dissimilar flat plates | 594 |
| Interaction between two spherical particles | 598 |
| Total potential energy of interaction | 601 |
| Experimental studies of the equilibrium interaction between diffuse double layers | 604 |
| Kinetics of coagulation | 616 |
| Effect of polymers on colloid stability | 628 |
| 13 | Introduction to Statistical Mechanics of Fluids | |
| Molecular interactions | 639 |
| The structure of liquids | 641 |
| The potential of mean force | 646 |
| Time-dependent correlation functions | 652 |
| Applications of the pair distribution function | 654 |
| Measurement of correlation functions | 657 |
| Calculation of distribution functions | 663 |
| 14 | Scattering Studies of Colloid Structure | |
| Relating potential to structure | 676 |
| Use of scattering to measure structure | 684 |
| Structure of concentrated isotropic dispersions of spherical particles | 698 |
| Neutron reflectivity | 705 |
| 15 | Rheology of Colloidal Dispersions | |
| Behaviour of time-independent inelastic fluids | 715 |
| Behaviour of time-dependent inelastic fluids | 721 |
| Visco-elastic fluids | 724 |
| Measurement of rheological properties of inelastic fluids in Couette flow | 728 |
| Capillary viscometer | 734 |
| Cone and plate or cone and cone viscometer | 739 |
| Time-dependent inelastic behaviour | 740 |
| Microrheology | 741 |
| Microscopic basis of rheological models | 749 |
| App. A1 | Calculation of the allowed surface interaction modes in modern Dispersion Force Theory | 767 |
| App. A2 | Evaluation of the sum of the roots of the dispersion relation | 768 |
| App. A3 | Vector calculus and Poisson's equation | 770 |
| App. A4 | Fourier transforms | 777 |
| App. A5 | Elementary thermodynamic relationships in the absence of surface contributions | 780 |
| App. A6 | Electrical units | 784 |
| Index | 787 |
Format: Hardcover, 2nd ed., 816 pages
