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By
Carel van Oss, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
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Interface Science and Technology,
Description
This book treats the different current as well as unusual and hitherto often unstudied physico-chemical and surface-thermodynamic properties
of water that govern all polar interactions occurring in it. These properties include the hyper-hydrophobicity of the water-air interface,
the cluster formation of water molecules in the liquid state and the concomitant variability of the ratio of the electron-accepticity
to electron-donicity of liquid water as a function of temperature, T. The increase of that ratio with T is the cause of the increase
in hydration repulsion (?hydration pressure?) between polar surfaces upon heating, when they are immersed in water.
The book also treats
the surface properties of apolar and polar molecules, polymers, particles and cells, as well as their mutual interaction energies, when
immersed in water, under the influence of the three prevailing non-covalent forces, i.e., Lewis acid-base (AB), Lifshitz-van der Waals
(LW) and electrical double layer (EL) interactions. The polar AB interactions, be they attractive or repulsive, typically represent
up to 90% of the total interaction energies occurring in water. Thus the addition of AB energies to the LW + EL energies of the classical
DLVO theory of energy vs. distance analysis makes this powerful tool (the Extended DLVO theory) applicable to the quantitative study
of the stability of particle suspensions in water. The influence of AB forces on the interfacial tension between water and other condensed-phase
materials is stressed and serves, inter alia, to explain, measure and calculate the driving force of the hydrophobic attraction between
such materials (the ?hydrophobic effect?), when immersed in water. These phenomena, which are typical for liquid water, influence all
polar interactions that take place in it. All of these are treated from the viewpoint of the properties of liquid water itself, including
the properties of advancing freezing fronts and the surface properties of ice at 0o C.
Audience
Colloid scientists; chemical and biomedical engineers; physical chemists; biochemists; biophysicists; biologists; pharmacologistas; phartmaceutical
scientists; microbiologists and graduate students in these disciplines
Contents
1. General and Historical Introduction
SECTION A. NON-COVALENT ENERGIES OF INTERACTION – EQUATIONS AND COMBINING RULES
2. The Apolar
and Polar Properties of Liquid Water and other Condensed-phase Materials
3. The Extended DLVO Theory
SECTION B: SURFACE THERMODYNAMIC
PROPERTIES OF WATER WITH RESPECT TO CONDENSED-PHASE MATERIALS IMMERSED IN IT
4. Determination of Interfacial Tensions Between Water
and other Condensed-phase Materials
5. The Interfacial Tension/Free Energy of Interaction Between Water and Identical Condensed-phase
Entities, I, Immersed in Water, w
6. The Interfacial Tension/Free Energy of Interaction between Water and Two Different Condensed-phase
Entities, I, Immersed in Water, w
7. Aqueous Solubility and Insolubility
8. Stability Versus Flocculation of Aqueous Particle Suspensions
SECTION C: PHYSICAL AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER
9. Cluster Formation in Liquid Water
10. Hydration Energies of Atoms and
Small Molecules in Relation to Clathrate Formation
11. The Water-air Interface
12. Influence of the pH and the Ionic Strength of Water
on Contact Angles Measured with Drops of Aqueous Solutions on Electrically Charged, Amphoteric and Uncharged Surfaces
13. Macroscopic
and Microscopic Aspects of Repulsion Versus Attraction in Adsorption and Adhesion in Water
14. Specific Interactions in Water
Bibliography
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 236 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374303-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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