Fundamentals of Soft Interfaces in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (Volume 37) (Interface Science and Technology, Volume 37)

This book explains and summarizes the fundamentals of soft interfaces and soft particles from a colloid and surface chemistry standpoint, bringing knowledge together into a single resource for the first time. It provides detailed mathematical description of colloidal and interfacial systems, with a particular emphasis on ionic, electrokinetic, and electrostatic phenomena. Hiroyuki Ohshima covers the most recent theoretical advances in the field of electrostatic interactions between soft interfaces, electrophoresis, diffusiophoresis, gel electrophoresis of soft particles including ionic size effects, ion-partitioning effects, and the effects of hydrodynamic slip on hydrophobic surfaces. It will help readers by providing a range of approximate analytic formulas which can be used to interpret various interfacial phenomena of soft interfaces and analyze experimental data in various fields. Fundamentals of Soft Interfaces in Colloid and Surface Chemistry is written for graduate students and researchers chiefly in chemistry but also chemical engineering, physics, and materials science.

• Utilizes rigorous theories and the various useful approximate analytical formulas based upon them
• Describes basic theories for various electrostatic and electrokinetic phenomena of soft interfaces
• Provides many formulas used to interpret and analyze experimental data of soft interfaces

Hiroyuki Ohshima is a Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, where he has worked since 1985. He received his BS (1968), MS (1970), and PhD (1974) degrees in Physics from the University of Tokyo. He completed his postdoc studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia (1981–1983), the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA (1983–1984), and the University of Utah, USA (1984–1985). He was previously a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Tokyo University of Science (1994–2012) before retirement and is now Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor.