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Author Van Oss, Carel J.

Title The properties of water and their role in colloidal and biological systems / Carel Jan van Oss.

Imprint Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Interface science and technology ; v. 16
Interface science and technology ; v. 16.
Summary This book treats the different current as well as unusual and hitherto often unstudied physico-chemical and surface-thermodynamic properties of water that govern all polar interactions occurring in it. These properties include the hyper-hydrophobicity of the water-air interface, the cluster formation of water molecules in the liquid state and the concomitant variability of the ratio of the electron-accepticity to electron-donicity of liquid water as a function of temperature, T. The increase of that ratio with T is the cause of the increase in hydration repulsion (hydration pressure) between polar surfaces upon heating, when they are immersed in water. The book also treats the surface properties of apolar and polar molecules, polymers, particles and cells, as well as their mutual interaction energies, when immersed in water, under the influence of the three prevailing non-covalent forces, i.e., Lewis acid-base (AB), Lifshitz-van der Waals (LW) and electrical double layer (EL) interactions. The polar AB interactions, be they attractive or repulsive, typically represent up to 90% of the total interaction energies occurring in water. Thus the addition of AB energies to the LW + EL energies of the classical DLVO theory of energy vs. distance analysis makes this powerful tool (the Extended DLVO theory) applicable to the quantitative study of the stability of particle suspensions in water. The influence of AB forces on the interfacial tension between water and other condensed-phase materials is stressed and serves, inter alia, to explain, measure and calculate the driving force of the hydrophobic attraction between such materials (the 3hydrophobic effect4), when immersed in water. These phenomena, which are typical for liquid water, influence all polar interactions that take place in it. All of these are treated from the viewpoint of the properties of liquid water itself, including the properties of advancing freezing fronts and the surface properties of ice at 0o C. - Explains and allows the quantitative measurement of hydrophobic attraction and hydrophilic repulsion in water. Measures the degree of cluster formation of water molecules. Discusses the influence of temperature on the cluster size of water molecules. Treats the multitudinous effects of the hyper-hydrophobicity of the water-air interface.
Contents SECTION A. NON-COVALENT ENERGIES OF INTERACTION -- EQUATIONS AND COMBINING RULES -- SECTION B: SURFACE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF WATER WITH RESPECT TO CONDENSED-PHASE MATERIALS IMMERSED IN IT -- SECTION C: PHYSICAL AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Subject Water -- Analysis.
Water -- Properties.
Surface chemistry.
Surfaces (Physics)
Eau -- Analyse.
Eau -- Propriétés.
Chimie des surfaces.
Surfaces (Physique)
SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Inorganic.
Surface chemistry
Surfaces (Physics)
Water -- Analysis
Other Form: Print version: Van Oss, Carel J. Properties of water and their role in colloidal and biological systems. Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008 9780123743039 0123743036 (OCoLC)229031857
ISBN 9780123743039
0123743036
9780080921570 (electronic bk.)
0080921574 (electronic bk.)
1281911224
9781281911223
Standard No. AU@ 000048130903
AU@ 000058959995
CDX 10385682
CHNEW 001008988
DEBBG BV039828305
DEBBG BV042304704
DEBSZ 367776693
NZ1 15188695

 
    
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