Small Particles Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Introduction to Small Particles

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 1-28

3. Small Particles of Silica

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 29-84

4. Small Particles of Hydrous Metal Oxides

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 85-153

5. Clays and Colloidal Silicas

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 155-183

6. Zeolites

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 185-233

7. Surfaces of Small Particles

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 235-326

8. Catalyst Supports and Small Particle Catalysts

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 327-367

9. Pigments

   • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

   Pages 369-405

10. Small Particles in Paper

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 407-429

11. Various Applications of Small Particles

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 431-518

12. Erratum to: Introduction to Small Particles

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-525

13. Erratum to: Small Particles of Hydrous Metal Oxides

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-525

14. Erratum to: Zeolites

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-525

15. Erratum to: Small Particles of Silica

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-525

16. Erratum to: Clays and Colloidal Silicas

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-525

17. Erratum to: Surfaces of Small Particles

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 525-526

18. Erratum to: Catalyst Supports and Small Particle Catalysts

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 526-526

19. Erratum to: Small Particles in Paper

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 526-526

20. Erratum to: Various Applications of Small Particles

    • Jan-Erik Otterstedt, Dale A. Brandreth

    Pages 526-526

It is difficult to imagine modem technology without small particles, 1-1000 nm in size, because virtually every industry depends in some way on the use of such materials. Catalysts, printing inks, paper, dyes and pigments, many medicinal products, adsorbents, thickening agents, some adhesives, clays, and hundreds of other diverse products are based on or involve small particles in a very fundamental way. In some cases finely divided materials occur naturally or are merely a convenient form for using a material. In most cases small particles play a special role in technology because in effect they constitute a different state of matter because of the basic fact that the surface of a material is different from the interior by virtue of the unsaturated bonding interactions of the outermost layers of atoms at the surface of a solid. Whereas in a macroscale particle these differences are often insignificant, as the 9 surface area per unit mass becomes larger by a factor of as much as 10 , physical and chemical effects such as adsorption become so pronounced as to make the finely divided form of the bulk material into essentially a different material­ usually one that has no macroscale counterpart.

• Pigment
• materials science
• metal
• minerals
• surfaces

• Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Jan-Erik Otterstedt

• Widener University, Chester, USA

  Dale A. Brandreth

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