This comprehensive reference contains nearly 450 drawings, photographs, micrographs, equations, and tables.

Features:

• Discusses the role of flocculation, coalescence, and floc fragmentation in determining the rate of destabilization and phase separation in various systems, such as in oil-water and fat-particle emulsions as well as oil–-water-surfactant systems
• Explores the dependence of foam stability on the properties of interfacial films and on elastic and viscous properties of films, in both aqueous and nonaqueous systems
• Analyzes the behavior of thin liquid films in varied systems and processes, revealing potential applications for the controlled growth of two-dimensional ordered arrays on solid substrates
• Highlights the new findings about protein-surfactant interactions at interfaces, detailing recent research on the adsorption behavior in mixed surfactant systems
• And much more!

Emulsions, Foams, and Thin Films is inspired reading for physical, surface, and colloid chemists; cosmetic scientists and technologists; food and pharmaceutical scientists; chemical engineers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. General Overviews
   1. Foam and Emulsion Stability: Interfacial Rheology and Thin Liquid Film Phenomena
   2. Unity in Diversity in Interfacial Phenomena

2. Emulsions
   3. Coupling of Coalescence and Flocculation in Dilute O/W Emulsions
   4. Fat-Particle Structure Formation and Stability of Emulsions
   5. Spontaneous Emulsification in Oil-Water-Surfactant Systems
   6. New Technique for Drug Release Using Multiple Emulsion Technology

3. Foams
   7. Surface Rheology of a Nonaqueous System and Its Relationship with Foam Stability
   8. Stratification of Foam Films Made from Polyelectrolyte Solutions
   9. Preparation of Novel Silicone-Based Antifoams Having a High Defoaming Performance
   10. Preliminary Observations Concerning the Use of Perfluoroalkyl Alkanes in Hydrocarbon-Based Antifoams

4. Thin Films
   11. Application of the Theory of Liquids to Thin Films
   12. Morphological Pathways of Pattern Evolution and Dewetting in Thin Liquid Films
   13. Thinning and Rupture of Aqueous Surfactant Films on Silica
   14. Newton Black Films: From Simple Surfactants to Proteins
   15. Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Molecules in Foam Films
   16. Formation of 2D Structures of Micrometer-Sized Latex Particles Inside Thinning Foam Films

5. Adsorption and Monolayers
   17. Adsorption and Exchange of Whey Proteins onto Spread Lipid Monolayers
   18. Surfactant Adsorption Kinetics and Exchange of Matter for Surfactant Molecules with Changing Orientation Within the Adsorption Layer
   19. Dynamic Surface Tension of Aqueous Dispersions of SP-C and DPPC and Their Monolayer Behavior
   20. Monolayer Penetration as a Means of Understanding Systems of Mixed Amphiphiles
   21. Protein-Silicone Interactions at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

6. General Papers
   22. Effect of a Nonadsorbing Polyelectrolyte on Colloidal Stability: An Overview
   23. Viscosity of Colloidal Suspensions
   24. Attachment of Gas Bubbles to Solid Surfaces from an Impinging Jet
   25. Rheological Instabilities in Waterborne Coatings
   26. Preparation and Characterization of Thin Metal Oxide Layers Used for Producing Angle-Dependent Optical Effects
   27. Polymeric Surfactants Based on Oleic Acid: I. Polymerization in Bulk Phase

   Index

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