Overview
- Provides the fundamental interface science background for understanding emulsions, microemultions and foams
- Draws new and enlightening parallels between emulsions, microemulsions and foams
- Provides a brief review of the many practical applications of these dispersions, as detergents, fire retardants, medicines, cosmetics, foodstuff and more
Part of the book series: Soft and Biological Matter (SOBIMA)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book takes an interface science approach to describe and understand the behavior of the dispersions we call emulsions, microemulsions and foams. The one thing all these dispersions have in common is the presence of surface-active species (surfactants) adsorbed at the interfaces between the two fluid phases that make up the emulsions, microemulsions or foams. The interfacial layers formed by the surfactants control most of the properties of the dispersions.
The book describes the properties of interfacial layers, thin films and bulk fluids used in the elaboration of the various dispersions and it explains how such properties relate to the dispersion properties of these soft matter systems: structure, rheology and stability. These dispersion properties are far from being fully understood, in particular foam and emulsion stability. In discussing the state of the art of the current knowledge, the author draws interesting parallels between emulsions, microemulsions and foamsthat enlighten the interpretation of previous observations and point to a deeper understanding of the behavior of these materials in the future.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dominique Langevin is CNRS research director. She first worked at the Physics Laboratory of Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. She was afterwards director of the Paul Pascal Research Center, CNRS laboratory in Bordeaux. She currently works at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Orsay, France.
Her main research topic is the study of liquid interfaces in the presence of surfactants, polymers and/or nanoparticles, with a special focus on interfacial rheology. She is presently involved in the study of the physical chemistry of foams and emulsions. She published about 400 articles in scientific journals. She is also active in teaching in various area of Physics: Optics, Thermodynamics and topics closer to her research, Formulation, Surfactants and Foams. She received among other awards a grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, the silver medal of CNRS, the L’Oréal Unesco award for women in Science and the Overbeek gold medal. She is member of the Academia Europea.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emulsions, Microemulsions and Foams
Authors: Dominique Langevin
Series Title: Soft and Biological Matter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55681-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55680-8Published: 22 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55683-9Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55681-5Published: 21 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-1736
Series E-ISSN: 2213-1744
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 344
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films