TY - BOOK
T1 - Colloids and the depletion interaction
AU - Lekkerkerker, H.N.W.
AU - Tuinier, R.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Colloids are submicron particles that are ubiquitous in nature (milk, clay,
blood) and industrial products (paints, drilling fluids, food). It has been
known for a long time that adding salt or polymer influences the characteristics
of colloidal suspensions. Think of the Egyptians who engineered ink by adding
gum Arabic to soot particles a few thousand years ago. Unknowingly, they were
taking advantage of the anchoring of the polysaccharides onto the colloids to
provide the stabilization of the soot particles that eventually provided an ink
to write on papyrus. The effect of charges and polymers attached to the surface
of colloidal particles on their stability has been understood and studied
extensively in the last century. But the more elusive, albeit ubiquitous,
effects of the addition of free polymers and small colloids as depletants to
colloidal dispersions have become in focus recently. In recent decades it has
become clear that adding such depletants allows one to tune the interactions
between the colloids and in this way control the stability, structure and
rheological properties of colloidal dispersions. This book offers a concise
introduction to the fundamentals of depletion effects and their influence on the
phase behavior of colloidal dispersions. These fundamental principles promote
insight and the intuitive sense needed to isolate issues related to depletion
effects in technological problems and design critical experiments. In an
introductory chapter, the authors provide a historical perspective and the
applications of depletion effects not only in colloid science but also in
biology, medicine and technology. In the subsequent chapter they address the
basics of depletion interactions, including the effects of anisotropic
depletants. The next chapter covers the basics of phase behavior in colloidal
dispersions, followed by extensions towards mixtures of spherical colloids with
polymers or small colloids inducing depletion forces. Finally, the authors
consider depletion effects in suspensions of rod-like colloids. Throughout the
book, conceptual explanations are accompanied by experimental and computer
simulation results. This is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and
graduate students in physical chemistry, chemical engineering and soft matter
physics. It provides the basic knowledge of depletion interactions and phase
behaviour in general. Experienced scientists and engineers working on polymers,
particles or colloidal dispersions, may also find this book useful.
AB - Colloids are submicron particles that are ubiquitous in nature (milk, clay,
blood) and industrial products (paints, drilling fluids, food). It has been
known for a long time that adding salt or polymer influences the characteristics
of colloidal suspensions. Think of the Egyptians who engineered ink by adding
gum Arabic to soot particles a few thousand years ago. Unknowingly, they were
taking advantage of the anchoring of the polysaccharides onto the colloids to
provide the stabilization of the soot particles that eventually provided an ink
to write on papyrus. The effect of charges and polymers attached to the surface
of colloidal particles on their stability has been understood and studied
extensively in the last century. But the more elusive, albeit ubiquitous,
effects of the addition of free polymers and small colloids as depletants to
colloidal dispersions have become in focus recently. In recent decades it has
become clear that adding such depletants allows one to tune the interactions
between the colloids and in this way control the stability, structure and
rheological properties of colloidal dispersions. This book offers a concise
introduction to the fundamentals of depletion effects and their influence on the
phase behavior of colloidal dispersions. These fundamental principles promote
insight and the intuitive sense needed to isolate issues related to depletion
effects in technological problems and design critical experiments. In an
introductory chapter, the authors provide a historical perspective and the
applications of depletion effects not only in colloid science but also in
biology, medicine and technology. In the subsequent chapter they address the
basics of depletion interactions, including the effects of anisotropic
depletants. The next chapter covers the basics of phase behavior in colloidal
dispersions, followed by extensions towards mixtures of spherical colloids with
polymers or small colloids inducing depletion forces. Finally, the authors
consider depletion effects in suspensions of rod-like colloids. Throughout the
book, conceptual explanations are accompanied by experimental and computer
simulation results. This is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and
graduate students in physical chemistry, chemical engineering and soft matter
physics. It provides the basic knowledge of depletion interactions and phase
behaviour in general. Experienced scientists and engineers working on polymers,
particles or colloidal dispersions, may also find this book useful.
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-1223-2
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-1223-2
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:79959715373
SN - 978-94-007-1222-5
T3 - Lecture notes in physics
BT - Colloids and the depletion interaction
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -