General properties colloid dynamics

Casimir and Polder also showed that retardation effects weaken the dispersion force at separations of the order of the wavelength of the electronic absorption bands of the interacting molecules, which is typically 10 m. The retarded dispersion energy varies as R at large R and is determined by the static polarizabilities of the interacting molecules. At very large separations the forces between molecules are weak but for colloidal particles and macroscopic objects they may add and their effects are measurable. Fluctuations in particle position occur more slowly for nuclei than for electrons, so the intermolecular forces that are due to nuclear motion are effectively unretarded. A general theory of the interaction of macroscopic bodies in terms of the bulk static and dynamic dielectric properties... 

We now have all the elements needed to define a self-consistent system of equations to describe the full dynamic properties of a colloidal dispersion in the absence of hydrodynamic interactions. In this section we summarize the relevant equations for both, mono-disperse and multicomponent suspensions, and review some illustrative applications. The general results for A (t), F(k, t), and F k, t) in Equations 1.20,1.23, and 1.24, complemented by either one of the Vineyard-like approximations in Equations 1.25 and 1.26, and with the closure relation in Equation 1.27, constitute the full self-consistent GLE theory of colloid dynamics for monodisperse systems. Besides the unknown dynamic properties, it involves the properties SQi), t), and t), assumed to be deter-... 

Molecularly motivated empiricisms, such as the solubility parameter concept, have been valuable in dealing with mixtures of weakly interacting small molecules where surface forces are small. However, they are completely inadequate for mixtures that involve macromolecules, associating entities like surfactants, and rod-like or plate-like species that can form ordered phases. New theories and models are needed to describe and understand these systems. This is an active research area where advances could lead to better understanding of the dynamics of polymers and colloids in solution, the rheological and mechanical properties of these solutions, and, more generally, the fluid mechaiucs of non-Newtonian liquids. 

In Section VI, we consider a classical particle diffusing in an out-of-equilibrium environment. In this case, all the dynamical variables attached to the particle, even its velocity, are aging variables. We analyze how the drift and diffusion properties of the particle can be interpreted in terms of an effective temperature of the medium. From an experimental point of view, independent measurements of the mean-square displacement and of the mobility of a particle immersed in an aging medium such as a colloidal glass give access to an out-of-equilibrium generalized Stokes-Einstein relation, from which the effective temperature of the medium can eventually be deduced. 

Multipolar Properties of Molecules.- Matter consists of atoms and molecules or their ions, as well as of macromolecules and colloid particles, i.e. quite generally of microsystems. These are dynamical systems having an electromagnetic structure, which we are in some cases able to describe in terms of classical or, more strictly, quantum methods. Since, for our present aims, the quantum-mechanical structure of microsystems is not essential, we shall treat the latter classically, as electrostatic systems presenting a ffistribution of negative and positive electric charges. 

Suspension systems of sticky slurry and paste-like liquid explosives with solid particles, based on the dispersion of suspended solid particles, should belong to suspension or coarse multiphase systems in colloid chemistry. In these suspension systems, the main issue is its dynamic instability, because the density of the dispersed particles and the density of the dispersion medium are different (generally, the density particle is greater than that of the medium), settlement or floating can occur with the role of gravitational field to separate the system, resulting in unevenness in composition and density of liquid explosive. Stability is the ability to overcome the so-called sink-and-float separation of two-phase components, therefore, within a certain period of use, the composition and density of explosive and other physical parameters remained unchanged and its properties are stable and reliable. 

The first four chapters thus provide a general background on interfacial phenomena, colloidal dispersions, and surfactants, with emphasis on their equilibrium properties. The remaining chapters deal with the dynamic behavior of interfaces, emphasizing this subject to a much greater degree than most books on interfacial phenomena. 

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