Description
Book Synopsis* Physical chemists will find this book comprehensive. Topical reviews on all aspects of colloidal ordering and related phase transitions will be covered. It provides a good blend of experimental and theoretical investigations. * Useful to materials scientists and chemical engineers, the book includes a discussion of stability, important from the point of view of applications of colloidal crystals. * Physicists will be interested in the book, because it highlights the controversy over effective interparticle interaction in charged colloids.
Table of ContentsFrom the Contents:
Interaction, Ordering and Phase Transitions in Charged Colloids: An Introduction/
Video-Microscopic and X-Ray Scattering Studies of Colloidal Dispersions/
Direct Imaging of the Local Dynamics of Colloidal Phase Transitions/
Kinetics of Colloidal Crystallization/
Kossel-Line Analysis for Colloidal Crystal Growth/
Photothermal Stability of Colloidal Crystals/
Order-Disorder Transition in Charged Polydisperse Colloids/
Vapor-Liquid Condensation and Reentrant Transition in Charged Colloids/
Theory of Interactions in Charged Colloids/
Liquid-Solid Transition in Colloidal Suspensions with and without External Emodulations: Density Functional Theory/
Dynamics of Charged Colloidal Suspensions Across the Freezing and Glass Transition/
Determination of Interaction Forces in Colloids: Direct and Indirect Methods.
