Ebook: Foams and Emulsions

A general and introductory survey of foams, emulsions and cellular materials. Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity and the physics and chemistry of divided media and interfaces. They also give rise to some of the most beautiful geometrical shapes and tilings, ordered or disordered.
The chapters are grouped into sections having fairly loose boundaries. Each chapter is intelligible alone, but cross referencing means that the few concepts that may not be familiar to the reader can be found in other chapters in the book.
Audience: Research students, researchers and teachers in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering and geometry.

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A general and introductory survey of foams, emulsions and cellular materials. Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity and the physics and chemistry of divided media and interfaces. They also give rise to some of the most beautiful geometrical shapes and tilings, ordered or disordered.
The chapters are grouped into sections having fairly loose boundaries. Each chapter is intelligible alone, but cross referencing means that the few concepts that may not be familiar to the reader can be found in other chapters in the book.
Audience: Research students, researchers and teachers in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering and geometry.

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A general and introductory survey of foams, emulsions and cellular materials. Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity and the physics and chemistry of divided media and interfaces. They also give rise to some of the most beautiful geometrical shapes and tilings, ordered or disordered.
The chapters are grouped into sections having fairly loose boundaries. Each chapter is intelligible alone, but cross referencing means that the few concepts that may not be familiar to the reader can be found in other chapters in the book.
Audience: Research students, researchers and teachers in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering and geometry.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Surface Energy and Surface Rheology Relation to Foam Properties....Pages 1-20
Foams and Emulsions: Their Stability and Breakdown by Solid Particles and Liquid Droplets....Pages 21-44
An Introduction to Forces and Structure in Individual Foam and Emulsion Films....Pages 45-72
Structure of Foam Films Containing Additionally Polyelectrolytes....Pages 73-82
Drainage of Foam Films....Pages 83-90
Foam Evolution in Two Dimensions....Pages 91-104
Statistical Thermodynamics of Foam....Pages 105-126
Polygonal Networks Resulting from Dewetting....Pages 127-136
Two-Dimensional Magnetic Liquid Froth....Pages 137-150
Cellular Structures in Metallurgy....Pages 151-174
The Compression of Closed-Cell Polymer Foams....Pages 175-192
Hard Cellular Materials in the Human Body: Properties and Production of Foamed Polymers for Bone Replacement....Pages 193-206
Rheology and Glassy Dynamics of Foams....Pages 207-236
Surfactants and Stress Conditions at Fluid Interfaces....Pages 237-258
Foam Micromechanics....Pages 259-286
The Structure and Geometry of Foams....Pages 287-302
Rheology and Drainage of Liquid Foams....Pages 303-314
Electrical and Thermal Transport in Foams....Pages 315-322
Decontamination of Nuclear Components Through the Use of Foams....Pages 323-334
Foam in Porous Media....Pages 335-348
Application of the Voronoi Tessellations to the Study of Flow of Granular Materials....Pages 349-358
Determination of Real Three Dimensional Foam Structure Using Optical Tomography....Pages 359-378
The Geometry of Bubbles and Foams....Pages 379-402
Inverse Micellar Lyotropic Cubic Phases....Pages 403-422
Sponges....Pages 423-436
Deformations of Periodic Minimal Surfaces....Pages 437-470
Aperiodic Hierarchical Tilings....Pages 471-480
The Shell Map....Pages 481-496
Curved Spaces and Geometrical Frustration....Pages 497-510
Computer Simulations and Tessellations of Granular Materials....Pages 511-526
Study of Experimental and Simulated Evolutions of 2D Foams....Pages 527-546
Simulation of the Foaming Process....Pages 547-562
Voronoi Tessellation in Model Glass Systems....Pages 563-570
Back Matter....Pages 571-588
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