Emulsions: Structure Stability and Interactions

D.N. Petsev (Eds.)0120884399, 9780120884391, 9780080472263

Clay plays an important role in everyday life. This versatile mineral is used in housing, improving the environment as a waste treatment material and also in biological applications and medical health care.Clay Surfaces contains 17 chapters which deal with various aspects of natural and man made (synthetic) clay. Well written by experts in both experimental and theoretical areas, this book takes the reader into the fascinating world of the chemistry and physics of clay mineral surfaces and interfaces as well as the complex phenomena on the surfaces involved in clay related systems.This book will provide a better understanding of the intervention mechanisms of interactions of soils in contact with wastes, actions to be taken in the case of chemical spillage, methods to improve the production of food without affecting the ecological balance, increased fixation of carbon in the soil to increase grain production and reduction of carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere.Applications covered describe the role of clays in environmental remediation and the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

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Table of contents :
Content:
Preface
Pages v-vi
Dimiter N. Petsev

List of contributors
Pages ix-xi

Chapter 1 Statistical mechanics of fluid interfaces Original Research Article
Pages 1-32
Vicente Talanquer

Chapter 2 The structure of fluid interfaces determined by neutron scattering Original Research Article
Pages 33-59
J. Penfold

Chapter 3 Interfacial rheology of adsorbed layers Original Research Article
Pages 61-90
R. Miller, V.B. Fainerman

Chapter 4 Electric properties of oil/water interfaces Original Research Article
Pages 91-182
A.G. Volkov, V.S. Markin

Chapter 5 Deformation of fluid particles in the contact zone and line tension Original Research Article
Pages 183-214
V. Starov

Chapter 6 Hydrodynamic interactions and stability of emulsion films Original Research Article
Pages 215-258
E. Mileva, B. Radoev

Chapter 7 Structure and layering of fluids in thin films Original Research Article
Pages 259-311
D. Henderson, A.D. Trokhymchuk, D.T. Wasan

Chapter 8 Theory of emulsion flocculation Original Research Article
Pages 313-350
D.N. Petsev

Chapter 9 Coalescence kinetics of Brownian emulsions Original Research Article
Pages 351-390
N.O. Mishchuk

Chapter 10 Hydrodynamical interaction of deformable drops Original Research Article
Pages 391-447
A.Z. Zinchenko, R.H. Davis

Chapter 11 The role of inertial effects and conical flows in breakup of liquid threads Original Research Article
Pages 449-477
Vakhtang Putkaradze

Chapter 12 Statistical mechanics of dense emulsions Original Research Article
Pages 479-510
D.N. Petsev

Chapter 13 Highly concentrated (gel) emulsions: Formation and properties Original Research Article
Pages 511-555
C. Solans, J. Esquena, N. Azemar, C. Rodriguez, H. Kunieda

Chapter 14 Recent progress in double emulsions Original Research Article
Pages 557-605
N. Garti, R. Lutz

Chapter 15 Stability of concentrated emulsions Original Research Article
Pages 607-639
V. Schmitt, S. Arditty, F. Leal-Calderon

Chapter 16 Emulsions stabilised by solid particles: The role of capillary pressure in the emulsion films Original Research Article
Pages 641-676
P. Kruglyakov, A. Nushtayeva

Chapter 17 Brownian dynamics simulations of emulsion stability Original Research Article
Pages 677-719
G. Urbina-Villalba, J. Toro-Mendoza, A. Lozsán, M. García-Sucre

Chapter 18 The rheology of emulsions Original Research Article
Pages 721-759
H.A. Barnes

Subject Index
Pages 761-767