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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Written by Milton J. Rosen and Joy T. Kunjappu, two leading authorities in the field, Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena, Fourth Edition is an unparalleled tool for understanding and applying the latest information on surfactants, and includes unique data tables and end-of-chapter problems designed to enhance the reader's understanding." (Chimie Nouvelle, 1 March 2013)

"The book is recommended to all who want to enter the interesting and yet further growing field of surfactants at interfaces. It can serve as textbook for graduated students attending courses on surfactants and their applications. The book is also excellent for experts working in fundamental and applied research as they can find the main principles of the modification of interfaces via the impact of surfactants." (Tenside Surfactants Detergents, 1 May 2012)

Book Information
ISBN 9780470541944
Author Milton J. Rosen
Format Hardback
Page Count 616
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 943g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 34mm