Characterization of Liquids, Dispersions, Emulsions, and Porous Materials Using Ultrasound

Characterization of Liquids, Dispersions, Emulsions and Porous Materials Using Ultrasound, Third Edition, presents a scientific background for novel methods of characterizing homogeneous and heterogeneous liquids (dispersions, emulsions, and gels) as well as porous materials. Homogeneous liquids are characterized in rheological terms, whereas particle-size distribution and zeta potential are parameters of heterogeneous liquids. For porous materials, porosity, pore size, and zeta potential are output characteristics. These methods are based on ultrasound, which opens an opportunity for simplifying the sample preparation by eliminating dilution. This in turn, makes measurements faster, easier, precise, suitable for accurate quality control, PAT, and formulation of complex systems. This book provides theoretical background of acoustics, rheology, colloid science, electrochemistry, and other relevant scientific fields, describing principles of existing instrumentation and, in particular, commercially available instruments. Finally, the book features an extensive list of existing applications.

Andrei S. Dukhin is CEO and Co-Founder of Dispersion Technology, Inc., USA. He has been a leader in the development of a new technology for characterizing complex liquids that employs ultrasound for characterizing interfacial chemistry, particle size, and rheological properties of said systems. He has authored three books published by Elsevier, most recently Characterization of Liquids, Nano- and Microparticulates, and Porous Bodies using Ultrasound with Philip J. Goetz back in 2010. He holds 7 USA patents on electroacoustic methods of measuring zeta potential and has published more than 120 scientific papers. He established Dispersion Technology Inc, which installs more than 850 instruments for measuring zeta potential in 30 countries.

1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of Interface and Colloid Science 3. Fundamentals of Acoustics in Homogeneous Liquids: Longitudinal Rheology 4. Acoustic Theory for Particulates 5. Electroacoustic Theory 6. Experimental Verification of the Acoustic and Electroacoustic Theories 7. Acoustic and Electroacoustic Measurement Techniques 8. Applications for Dispersions 9. Applications for Nanodispersions 10. Applications for Emulsions and Other Soft Particles 11. Titrations 12. Applications for Ions and Molecules 13. Applications for Porous Bodies 14. Peculiar Applications of Acoustics and Electroacoustics for Characterizing Complex Liquids