Colloidal surfactants

K. Shinoda, T. Nakagawa, B. I. Tamamushi, and T. Isemura, Colloidal Surfactants, Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1963. 

The area of colloids, surfactants, and fluid interfaces is large in scope. It encompasses all fluid-fluid and fluid-solid systems in which interfacial properties play a dominant role in determining the behavior of the overall system. Such systems are often characterized by large surface-to-volume ratios (e.g., thin films, sols, and foams) and by the formation of macroscopic assembhes of molecules (e.g., colloids, micelles, vesicles, and Langmuir-Blodgett films). The peculiar properties of the interfaces in such media give rise to these otherwise unlikely (and often inherently unstable) structures. 

The current status and the emerging opportunities in the science of colloids, surfactants, and fluid interfaces can be addressed conveniently by considering a threefold hierarchy of systems as follows ... 

Isemura, T., in "Colloidal Surfactants" Academic Press, New York, 1963... 

Shinoda, K Nakagawa, T Tamamushi, B Isemura, T. "Colloid Surfactant" Academic Press New York,... 

Shinoda, K. "Colloidal Surfactants" Academic New York, 1963, Chap. 1. 

Witten, T.A. Structured Fluids Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants, Oxford University... 

Shinoda, K., Nakagawa, T., Tamamushi, B.-I., and Isemura, T. Colloidal surfactants. Some physicochemical properties. New York and London Acad. Press 1963. 

Shinoda, K., et al. Colloidal Surfactants. Some Physico-Chemical Properties. New York Academic 1963... 

Deo, N. and Somasundaran, P, Mechanism of mixed liposome solubilization in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. Colloids Surfactants 186 33-41, 2001. 

K. Shinoda, B. Tamashumi, T. Nakagawa and T. I. Semura "Colloidal Surfactants", Academic Press,... 

Witten TA (2004) Structured fluids. Polymers, colloids, surfactants. Oxford University Press, New York, NY... 

Materials of interest include metals and alloys, semiconductors, ceramics and ionic solids, concrete, dielectrics and polymers, composites, biological materials including proteins and enzymes, membranes and coatings, aqueous and nonaqueous solvents and solutions, molten salts, catalytic materials, colloids, surfactants and inhibitors, and emulsions and foams. 

Colloids, surfactants, and fluid interfaces represent systems where interfacial properties play a dominant role in determining overall behavior. Electrochemical phenomena play an essential role because such interfaces take on a surface potential that is responsible for their structure, properties, and stability. 

This procedure can be generalised for the study of surface or seawater, for example. In these cases, some reference spectra (suspended solids, colloids, surfactants) are replaced by more relevant spectra for the medium, such as humic substances, mineral-suspended solids or chloride) in order to constitute specific but rather universal basis of reference. 

T., "Colloidal Surfactants. Some Physicochemical Properties," Academic Press, New York, N.Y., 1963, a) p 7,... 

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