| Frontispiece | |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Units and physical constants | p. xvi |
| Mathematical symbols | p. xviii |
| A Survey of Colloidal Dispersions | p. 1 |
| Colloidal phenomena | p. 1 |
| Historical notes | p. 7 |
| Recent developments | p. 9 |
| The classification of colloids | p. 12 |
| An overview | p. 14 |
| References | p. 18 |
| Hydrodynamics | p. 21 |
| Introduction | p. 21 |
| Description of the motion of continuous media | p. 22 |
| Two simple flow fields | p. 25 |
| Steady laminar shear | p. 25 |
| Potential flow past a sphere | p. 28 |
| Characteristics of Stokes flow | p. 30 |
| Singular solutions to the Stokes equations | p. 31 |
| Dynamics of isolated spheres | p. 35 |
| Unsteady translation of spheres | p. 42 |
| Two spheres translating through a quiescent fluid | p. 44 |
| Two spheres in a shear flow | p. 53 |
| Summary | p. 60 |
| References | p. 62 |
| Problems | p. 63 |
| Brownian Motion | p. 65 |
| Introduction | p. 65 |
| The Langevin equation | p. 66 |
| Brownian motion and diffusion | p. 68 |
| Measurement by photon correlation spectroscopy | p. 72 |
| Pair interactions | p. 76 |
| Brownian dynamics | p. 82 |
| Summary | p. 84 |
| References | p. 85 |
| Problems | p. 86 |
| Electrostatics | p. 88 |
| Introduction | p. 88 |
| Electrostatic fields | p. 89 |
| Boundary conditions | p. 92 |
| The electric stress tensor | p. 94 |
| The origins of interfacial charge | p. 96 |
| The Gouy-Chapman model of the diffuse layer | p. 99 |
| The diffuse layer near a flat plate | p. 101 |
| The diffuse layer around a sphere | p. 109 |
| Repulsion between charged plates | p. 111 |
| Repulsion between charged spheres | p. 115 |
| Tests of the Gouy-Chapman theory | p. 120 |
| Summary | p. 123 |
| References | p. 124 |
| Problems | p. 126 |
| Dispersion forces | p. 129 |
| Introduction | p. 129 |
| Intermolecular forces and the microscopic theory | p. 130 |
| Overview of the continuum theory | p. 136 |
| Dielectric response of materials | p. 138 |
| Theory for flat plates | p. 142 |
| Solution of the boundary value problem | p. 142 |
| Interaction potential | p. 145 |
| Effect of electrolyte | p. 146 |
| Calculations for specific materials | p. 147 |
| Geometrical effects: the Derjaguin approximation | p. 149 |
| Direct measurements | p. 150 |
| A simplified approximation for flat plates | p. 153 |
| Interactions between spheres | p. 156 |
| Summary | p. 158 |
| References | p. 159 |
| Problems | p. 160 |
| Forces due to soluble polymer | p. 162 |
| Introduction | p. 163 |
| Polymers in solution | p. 164 |
| General features | p. 164 |
| Thermodynamic functions | p. 168 |
| Self-consistent field theory | p. 172 |
| Application to bulk solutions | p. 176 |
| Terminally anchored polymers | p. 176 |
| Structure of isolated layers | p. 176 |
| Interactions between layers: ideal solutions | p. 181 |
| Interactions between layers: good and poor solvents | p. 183 |
| Experimental results | p. 186 |
| Non-adsorbing polymer | p. 189 |
| Adsorbing polymer | p. 194 |
| Structure of isolated layers | p. 194 |
| Interactions between adsorbed layers | p. 201 |
| Summary | p. 205 |
| References | p. 206 |
| Problems | p. 209 |
| Electrokinetic phenomena | p. 211 |
| Introduction | p. 211 |
| Examples of electrokinetic phenomena | p. 211 |
| A model problem | p. 212 |
| Electrophoresis | p. 215 |
| Scale analysis | p. 216 |
| A thick diffuse layer | p. 219 |
| A thin diffuse layer | p. 220 |
| Electrophoresis with an equilibrium diffuse layer | p. 222 |
| Effects due to deformation of the diffuse layer | p. 223 |
| Measurements of electrophoretic mobilities | p. 227 |
| Comparisons between theory and experiment | p. 229 |
| Electrical conductivity of dilute suspensions | p. 231 |
| Maxwell's theory | p. 231 |
| Diffuse layer effects | p. 232 |
| Comparisons between theory and experiment | p. 235 |
| Dilute suspensions with alternating electric fields | p. 238 |
| The leaky dielectric | p. 239 |
| Maxwell-Wagner theory | p. 241 |
| Behavior of suspensions of colloidal particles | p. 243 |
| Summary | p. 252 |
| References | p. 253 |
| Problems | p. 256 |
| Electrostatic stabilization | p. 258 |
| Introduction | p. 258 |
| Interparticle potential and criteria for stability | p. 260 |
| Conservation equations for probability densities | p. 262 |
| Initial stage of Brownian flocculation | p. 267 |
| Predictions of the stability ratio | p. 271 |
| Measurements of doublet formation rates | p. 274 |
| Growth and structure of large flocs | p. 279 |
| Doublet formation in shear flows | p. 289 |
| Diffusion dominated flocculation: Pe [double less-than sign] 1 | p. 289 |
| Convection dominated flocculation: Pe [double greater-than sign] 1 | p. 292 |
| Growth of large aggregates in shear | p. 298 |
| Criteria for mechanical stability | p. 299 |
| Experimental studies of shear flocculation | p. 303 |
| Summary | p. 305 |
| References | p. 305 |
| Problems | p. 308 |
| Polymeric stabilization | p. 310 |
| Introduction | p. 310 |
| Criteria for stability | p. 312 |
| Interaction potential between spheres with polymer layers | p. 313 |
| Stability with respect to dispersion forces | p. 315 |
| Critical flocculation point | p. 316 |
| Measurements of critical flocculation point | p. 319 |
| Summary | p. 327 |
| References | p. 327 |
| Problems | p. 328 |
| Equilibrium phase behavior | p. 329 |
| Introduction | p. 329 |
| The statistical mechanical approach | p. 332 |
| Equilibrium properties of dilute suspensions | p. 334 |
| Perturbation theory | p. 335 |
| Suspensions of hard spheres | p. 338 |
| Disorder-order transition for charged spheres | p. 343 |
| Phase transitions induced by dissolved polymer | p. 349 |
| Application of the perturbation theory | p. 350 |
| Hard spheres in ideal polymer solutions | p. 352 |
| Electrostatically stabilized dispersions | p. 353 |
| Polymerically stabilized dispersions | p. 357 |
| Summary | p. 360 |
| References | p. 361 |
| Problems | p. 364 |
| Particle capture | p. 366 |
| Introduction | p. 366 |
| Capture efficiency and the filter coefficient | p. 367 |
| Scale analysis | p. 370 |
| Capture of non-Brownian particles | p. 374 |
| Inertial capture | p. 375 |
| Capture with attractive forces | p. 377 |
| Capture with electrostatic repulsion | p. 380 |
| Capture of Brownian particles | p. 383 |
| Experimental measurements | p. 387 |
| Experiments with rotating discs | p. 388 |
| Experiments with packed beds | p. 389 |
| Summary | p. 391 |
| References | p. 391 |
| Problems | p. 393 |
| Sedimentation | p. 394 |
| Introduction | p. 394 |
| Ensemble average velocities | p. 396 |
| Monodisperse suspensions of spheres | p. 400 |
| Polydisperse suspensions of spheres | p. 405 |
| Theory of batch settling | p. 411 |
| Hard spheres at infinite Peclet number | p. 414 |
| Hard spheres at finite Peclet number | p. 423 |
| Summary | p. 425 |
| References | p. 426 |
| Problems | p. 427 |
| Diffusion | p. 429 |
| Introduction | p. 429 |
| Gradient diffusion of monodisperse spheres | p. 432 |
| Equilibrium in the presence of an external potential | p. 437 |
| Principles of photon correlation spectroscopy | p. 441 |
| Initial decay of the autocorrelation functions | p. 444 |
| Wavenumber-dependent diffusion coefficient | p. 447 |
| Summary | p. 452 |
| References | p. 453 |
| Problems | p. 454 |
| Rheology | |
| Introduction | p. 456 |
| Characterization of rheological behavior | p. 457 |
| Dimensional analysis | p. 464 |
| Hard spheres | p. 466 |
| Charged spheres | p. 471 |
| Polymerically stabilized spheres | p. 477 |
| Weakly flocculated dispersions | p. 481 |
| Motivation for pair interaction theories | p. 488 |
| Non-equilibrium microstructure | p. 488 |
| Macroscopic stresses | p. 493 |
| Results and comparison with experiment | p. 497 |
| Summary | p. 503 |
| References | p. 503 |
| Problems | p. 505 |
| Measured properties | p. 507 |
| Vector and tensor notation | p. 508 |
| Author index | p. 511 |
| Subject index | p. 517 |
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