edited by
Alexander G. Volkov

Liquid Interfaces in Chemical, Biological, and Pharmaceutical Applications describes interfacial phenomena in chemistry, biology, physics, and medicine—offering a comprehensive treatment of surface chemistry and its applications to chemical engineering, biology, and medicine.

Liquid Interfaces in Chemical, Biological, and Pharmaceutical Applications includes 2,800 references, over 700 equations, and more than 430 drawings and photographs. It focuses on the chemical and physical structure of oil–water interfaces and membrane surfaces.

Features:

• details interfacial potentials, ion solvation, and electrostatic instabilities in double layers
• presents theories of adsorption, nonlinear optics, and interfacial kinetics
• analyzes microstructure effects, ultra-microelectrode techniques, catalysis, and extraction
• considers protein encapsulation, membranes, and the effects of phospholipids
• examines biocatalysis, oscillation of membrane potentials, and fundamentals of interfacial electrochemistry in green plants
• describes drugs at liquid interfaces and in NMR studies and gene delivery
• and more!

Contents

1. Chemistry at Liquid Interfaces
   1. Interfacial Potentials and Cells
   2. Ion Solvation and Resolvation
   3. Electroelastic Instabilities in Double Layers and Membranes
   4. The GvdW Theory: A Density Functional Theory of Adsorption, Surface Tension, and Screening
   5. Adsorption at Polarized Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   6. Nonlinear Optics at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   7. The Lattice-Gas and Other Simple Models for Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   8. Dynamic Aspects of Heterogeneous Electron-Transfer Reactions at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   9. Dynamic Behaviors of Molecules at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces Using the Time-Resolved Quasi-Elastic Laser Scattering Method
   10. Microstructure Effects on Transport in Reverse Microemulsions
   11. Investigation of Oil–Water Interfaces by Spectroscopic Methods. Relations with Rheological Properties of Multiphasic Systems
   12. Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy as a Local Probe of Chemical Processes at Liquid Interfaces
   13. Hydrodynamic Techniques for Investigating Reaction Kinetics at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces: Historical Overview and Recent Developments
   14. Catalytic Effect of the Liquid–Liquid Interface in Solvent Extraction Kinetics
   15. Voltammetry at Micro-ITIES
   16. Dynamics of Polar Solvent Motion at Liquid Interfaces
   17. Capacitance and Surface Tension Measurements of Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   18. Liquid Membrane Ion-Selective Electrodes: Response Mechanisms Studied by Optical Second Harmonic Generation and Photoswitchable Ionophores as a Molecular Probe

2. Liquid Interfaces in Biological Applications
   19. Water-in-Oil Microemulsions: Protein Encapsulation and Release
   20. Biomimetic Charge Transfers Through Artificial Membranes
   21. DNA-Modified Electrodes. Molecular Recognition of DNA and Biosensor Applications
   22. Phospholipids at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces and Their Effect on Charge Transfer
   23. Biocatalysis in Liquid–Liquid Biphasic Media: Coupled Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions
   24. Design of Biocompatible Ion Sensors
   25. The Oscillation of Membrane Potential or Membrane Current
   26. Selective Ion Transfer of Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Ions Facilitated by Naphtho-15-Crown-5 Across Liquid–Liquid Interfaces and a Bilayer Lipid Membrane
   27. Langmuir and Langmuir Blodgett Films of Chlorophyll a and Photosystem II Complex
   28. Interfacial Electrical Phenomena in Green Plants: Action Potentials

3. Pharmaceutical Applications: Drugs at Liquid Interfaces
   29. Voltammetric Study of Drugs at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces
   30. Electrical Potential Oscillation Across a Water–Oil–Water Liquid Membrane in the Presence of Drugs
   31. Transfer Mechanisms and Lipophilicity of Ionizable Drugs
   32. NMR Studies on Lipid Bilayer Interfaces Coupled with Anesthetics and Endocrine Disruptors
   33. Lipid Bilayers in Cells: Implications in Drug and Gene Delivery

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