Bubble and Foam Chemistry
About this book
This indispensable guide will equip the reader with a thorough understanding of the field of foaming chemistry. Assuming only basic theoretical background knowledge, the book provides a straightforward introduction to the principles and properties of foams and foaming surfactants. It discusses the key ideas that underpin why foaming occurs, how it can be avoided and how different degrees of antifoaming can be achieved, and covers the latest test methods, including laboratory and industrial developed techniques. Detailing a variety of different kinds of foams, from wet detergents and food foams, to polymeric, material and metal foams, it connects theory to real-world applications and recent developments in foam research. Combining academic and industrial viewpoints, this book is the definitive stand-alone resource for researchers, students and industrialists working on foam technology, colloidal systems in the field of chemical engineering, fluid mechanics, physical chemistry, and applied physics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols
- 1 Basic principles and concepts
- 2 The nature and properties of foaming surfactants
- 3 Soap bubbles and thin films
- 4 Processes in foaming
- 5 Generation of bubbles and foams
- 6 Coalescence of bubbles in surfactant solutions
- 7 The stability/instability of bubbles and foams
- 8 Particle-stabilized foams
- 9 Foaming in non-aqueous liquids
- 10 Antifoaming and defoaming
- 11 Bubble size measurements and foam test methods
- 12 Bubble and foam chemistry – new areas of foam research
- Index
