KMM 507E - Surface Chemistry

Course Objectives

To provide students information on surface chemistry, interfaces, contact angle, electrical double layer, surface charge.

To provide information about formation of a new phase, interparticle forces, surfaces of solids, contact angle and flotation.

Course Description

Basic concepts; Introduction to dispersion systems; Surface activity-surface tension-capillarity; Emulsion theory; Thermodynamics of liquid interfaces; Electrical aspects of surface chemistry-electrical double layer; Flocculation; Long-range forces-Lifshitz and DLVO theories; Surfaces of solids; Formation of a new phase-nucleation and crystal growth; Solid-liquid interfaces-Contact angle and flotation.