E-grāmata: Colloid Science: Theory, Methods and Applications illustrated edition [Wiley Online]

The textbook has grown out of an annual one-week course in chemistry that has been held since 1972 at Bristol University. The 14 lectures are intended as a basic introduction to colloid and interface science for students with a first degree in chemistry or physics, or some closely related discipline, who are working in an industrial, government, or academic research-and-development laboratory, and who need the basics of the science for their research. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Colloidal systems are important across a range of industries, such as the food, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, cosmetics, polymer, paint and oil industries, and form the basis of a wide range of products (eg cosmetics & toiletries, processed foodstuffs and photographic film). A detailed understanding of their formation, control and application is required in those industries, yet many new graduate or postgraduate chemists or chemical engineers have little or no direct experience of colloids.

This book is based on lectures given at the highly successful Bristol Colloid Centre Spring School, designed to provide a thorough introduction to colloid science for industrial chemists, technologists and engineers. The course has attracted a wide range of industrialists from major companies with over 1000 delegates attending in all. This book brings together the BCC Spring School lectures and presents them in a coherent and logical text on practical colloid science. The authors are well known internationally in their respective fields and the book will be uniquely focussed on providing the reader with a detailed understanding of the practical application of colloid science.