Colloidal electrical charge

Charged Colloids (Electrical Charge Distribution at Interfaces)... 

Colloids Electrically charged SDI and zeta potential determine fouling... 

The type of interaction between colloidal electrically charged particles in a liquid medium can be estimated by the DLVO theory (1 -4,23). According to this theory, the extent of agglomeration in colloidal suspensions depends on the total potential energy of interaction between particles (Ut), which consists basically of a balance among the attractive ( /a) and repulsive Ur) potential energies, as follows ... 

The influence of electrical charges on surfaces is very important to their physical chemistry. The Coulombic interaction between charged colloids is responsible for a myriad of behaviors from the formation of opals to the stability of biological cells. Although this is a broad subject involving both practical application and fundamental physics and chemistry, we must limit our discussion to those areas having direct implications for surface science. 

The major class of plate-like colloids is tliat of clay suspensions [21]. Many of tliese swell in water to give a stack of parallel, tliin sheets, stabilized by electrical charges. Natural clays tend to be quite polydisperse. The syntlietic clay laponite is comparatively well defined, consisting of discs of about 1 nm in tliickness and 25 nm in diameter. It has been used in a number of studies (e.g. [22]). 

Ion Any particle of less than colloidal size possessing either a positive or a negative electric charge. 

Coliform bacteria Non-pathogenic microbes found in fecal matter that indicate the presence of water pollution are thereby a guide to the suitability for potable use. Colloids Very small, finely divided solids (particles that do not dissolve) that remain dispersed in a liquid for a long time due to their small size and electrical charge. 

Based on the application of the established theory of colloid stability of water treatment particles [8,85-88], the colloidal particles in untreated water are attached to one another by van der waals forces and, therefore, always tend to aggregate unless kept apart by electrostatic repulsion forces arising from the presence of electrical charges on the particles. The aggregation process... 

Lyophobic colloids, ordinarily, have an electric charge of definite sign, which can be changed only by special methods. 

The stability of lyophobic colloids is intimately associated with the electrical charge on the particles. Thus in the formation of an arsenic(III) sulphide sol... 

The stability of a colloid such as gelatin in water is determined by the electric charge and hydration. The addition of large amounts of electrolytes to colloids (biopolymers) causes... 

One of the most obvious properties of a disperse system is the vast interfacial area that exists between the dispersed phase and the dispersion medium [48-50]. When considering the surface and interfacial properties of the dispersed particles, two factors must be taken into account the first relates to an increase in the surface free energy as the particle size is reduced and the specific surface increased the second deals with the presence of an electrical charge on the particle surface. This section covers the basic theoretical concepts related to interfacial phenomena and the characteristics of colloids that are fundamental to an understanding of the behavior of any disperse systems having larger dispersed phases. 

Several additional instrumental techniques have also been developed for bacterial characterization. Capillary electrophoresis of bacteria, which requires little sample preparation,42 is possible because most bacteria act as colloidal particles in suspension and can be separated by their electrical charge. Capillary electrophoresis provides information that may be useful for identification. Flow cytometry also can be used to identify and separate individual cells in a mixture.11,42 Infrared spectroscopy has been used to characterize bacteria caught on transparent filters.113 Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, with linear discriminant analysis and artificial neural networks, has been adapted for identifying foodbome bacteria25,113 and pathogenic bacteria in the blood.5... 

The sorbent materials are supplied as finely dispersed colloidal particles, whose surfaces are smooth. Some of their properties are presented in Table 3. The sorbents cover different combinations of hydrophobicity and sign of the surface charge. Thus, the model systems presented allow systematic investigation of the influences of hydrophobicity, electric charge, and protein structural stability on protein adsorption. 

The application of ion exchangers to dextrose process liquors involved considerable experimental work because of a number of factors which do not enter into their application to water purification. The accumulation of fats and proteins on the resin surfaces must be guarded against by proper clarification of the liquors to be treated. Such accumulation may result from precipitation as the neutralization progresses, and may soon destroy the effective acid-removing capacity of the anion exchange resin. This difficulty can effectively be eliminated by prior precipitation of thfe refinery residue from the acid liquor by bentonite, a colloidal clay of opposite electrical charge to the colloids,21 followed by filtration. 

Although aquatic particles bear electric charge, this charge is balanced by the charges in the diffuse swarm which move about freely in solution while remaining near enough to colloid surfaces to create the effective (counter) charge gd that balances gp... 

In a qualitative way, colloids are stable when they are electrically charged (we will not consider here the stability of hydrophilic colloids - gelatine, starch, proteins, macromolecules, biocolloids - where stability may be enhanced by steric arrangements and the affinity of organic functional groups to water). In a physical model of colloid stability particle repulsion due to electrostatic interaction is counteracted by attraction due to van der Waal interaction. The repulsion energy depends on the surface potential and its decrease in the diffuse part of the double layer the decay of the potential with distance is a function of the ionic strength (Fig. 3.2c and Fig. 

L7. Lindblad, N. R., Effects of relative humidity and electric charge on the coalescence of curved water surfaces, J. Colloid Sci. 19, 729 (1964). 

Micelle, An electrically charged aggregation of large organic molecules in suspension (a colloid), typically in water if its an emulsion polymerization process. The colloid is electrically charged and forms the site where polymerization takes place, even as the micelle stays in suspension. 

In the presence of colloidal solutions in contact with a liquid junction, anomalous liquid-junction potentials are often measured. This suspension or Palmarm effect [14] has not yet been satisfactorily explained. It is probably a Donnan-type potential with the electrically-charged colloidal species acting as indiffusible ions (cf. section 5.1.3). 

The physical theories for electric charges have been incorporated in colloid and surface chemistry for many years. In the treatment presented here, these theories have been selected, adapted, and applied to describe the retention of ionic solutes. The approximations made in these models are well known and have limitations. Here, they are chosen from four requirements they should have a meaningful physico-chemical interpretation, be easy to use, be easy to understand, and give practical and useful results. This implies that the presented models are useful starting points for describing and understanding the retention properties for the type of systems that are discussed here. When the experimental results deviate from the model, it may be possible to extend it within its framework. In other situations, empirically based functions may complement the model, or it may be necessary to resort to more sophisticated models. 

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