Water Science Reviews 4: Hydration Phenomena in Colloidal Systems

by Edited by Felix Franks

• ISBN13: 9780521100250
• ISBN10: 0521100259
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The fourth volume of Water Science Reviews presents three fascinating accounts of hydration phenomena in collodial systems. O. Fennell Evans and David Miller provide a reappraisal of the role of water in promoting amphiphilic assembly and structure. Donald Eagland's review of water-soluble polymers highlights those which show unique solution properties or where there is contention as to the explanation for the behaviour. The final review, from Kenneth Newman, deals with the hydration of surfaces, a topic of profound scientific and technological importance.

Table of Contents

A reappraisal of the role of water in promoting amphiphilic assembly and structure

Introduction

Solvent-amphiphilic interactions that drive self-assembly

Structure of amphiphilic assemblies

Water mediated interactions between amphiphilic aggregates

Conclusion

References

Solution properties of water-soluble polymers

Introduction

Thermodynamic behaviour

Solution behaviour of nonionic ploymers

Aqueous solution behaviour of polyelectrolytes

Interpolymer complex formation

Sorption behaviour of water-soluble polymers

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Hydration of surfaces with particular attention to micron-sized particles

Preamble

Experimental methods

Pore water

Metals

Oxides

Insoluble salts

Geological materials

Concluding remarks

References

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