The properties of water and their role in colloidal and biological systems v. 16

This book treats the surface and interfacial, as well as other physical and physico-chemical properties of liquid water. Knowledge of these properties is essential not only because water is a strongly polar liquid with many unusual features but it is also the liquid in which all biomedical and other biologicalinteractions occur, as well as the liquid involved in a large proportion of industrial operations, from mining and agriculture, to chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Furthermore, familiarity with these properties of water, as well as with the physico-chemical and colloidal parameters of the materials immersed in it, allows one, by using fundamental engineering approaches, to predict in a quantitative manner the degree to which various materials, compounds, polymers, particles or cells will behave when attracting or repelling one another in water.This work also provides the theoretical and experimental aspects of the interactions of hydrophobic as well of hydrophilic materials or compounds, when immersed in water. The mechanisms of these interactions in aqueous media elucidate both the phenomenon of hydration pressure and that of hydrophobic interaction. The book also treats aqueous solubility and the stability of aqueous particle or cell suspensions, employing the DLVO theory, extended to encompass the interactions at a distance between partiicles or cells, while immersed in water.The book also includes treatment of some of the unusual and extreme properties of the water-air interface, as well as the formation of clusters of water molecules at room temperature, whilst a decrease in cluster size caused by an increase in temperature is accompanied by an increase in the hydration power of water, when heated

• ISBN: 978-0-12-374303-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 236
• Fecha Publicación: 31/12/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés