Colloid chemistry, organic theory

The practice of physical chemistry came to include many subfields of research thermochemistry and thermodynamics, solution theory, phase equilibria, surface and transport phenomena, colloids, statistical mechanics, kinetics, spectroscopy, crystallography, photochemistry, and radiation. Here I concentrate only on three approaches within physical chemistry that had some promise for meeting the needs of organic chemists who wanted to explain affinity and reaction dynamics. 

A bacterial suspension can be interpreted as a living colloidal system, and the initial step of adhesion involves, at a first approximation, an adsorption phenomenon that takes place between the organic macromolecules that constitute the bacteria outer shell and the carbon surface. Hence, bacteria adsorption can be explained by colloid and surface chemistry theories, which is why this section... 

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