The colloidal domain: where physics, chemistry, biology, and technology meet

Abstract

Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering and technology (materials science), physical chemistry and related fields, this text tackles fundamental colloidal issues, illustrating them with the relevant experimental techniques. It shows the connection between the molecular world and the colloidal domain, and how molecular interactions lead to colloidal behaviour. It focuses on association colloids rather than on the more traditional lyophobic colloidal systems.