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Summary
Summary
Now in its fourth edition, Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena explains why and how surfactants operate in interfacial processes (such as foaming, wetting, emulsion formation and detergency), and shows the correlations between a surfactant's chemical structure and its action.
Updated and revised to include more modern information, along with additional three chapters on Surfactants in Biology and Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Surfactants, and Molecular Modeling with Surfactant Systems, this is the premier text on the properties and applications of surfactants.
This book provides an easy-to-read, user-friendly resource for industrial chemists and a text for classroom use, and is an unparalleled tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants. Problems are included at the end of each chapter to enhance the reader's understanding, along with many tables of data that are not compiled elsewhere. Only the minimum mathematics is used in the explanation of topics to make it easy-to-understand and very user friendly.
Author Notes
Milton J. Rosen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is also the Director (ret.) of the university's Surfactant Research Institute, a pioneering organization that he founded in 1987.
Joy T. Kunjappu, PhD, DSc, is a chemistry educator, consultant, and former Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. His areas of research interest include surfactant and surface science, organic chemistry, and photochemistry.
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Choice Review
Rosen (City Univ. of New York) offers "another book" (2nd ed., 1989) in the area of colloid and interface science. However, it is different from many others in that area. Rosen approaches colloid science less from a mathematical point of view and puts less effort on lengthy derivations and applications of equations. Most of the time he describes the concept in words. He also puts more emphasis on the chemical structure of the various surfactants, polymers, or other components in the system, explaining how and why they act in a certain way. Another difference is the vast amount of literature data summarized in numerous tables. This provides readers with a very easy way to find specific literature for their own systems. The problem sections at the end of each chapter are sufficient, but it would be nice if in some cases they could be expanded to include examples worked out in detail. For anyone needing to learn more about surfactants or applying general colloidal processes. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. H. Giesche Alfred University
