Colloidal Systems

This book has one primary goal: To get you moving quickly from learning basic principles of colloid science, to designing colloidal systems for your needs. I provide both intuitive explanations and practical algorithms in areas that our own lab uses regularly: 1. Overview: fabricating colloidal doublets 2. Electrostatic force 3. van der Waals force 4. Hydrodynamics 5. Brownian motion 6. Stability 7. Synthesis 8. Electrokinetics 9. Assembly 10. Characterization In each chapter, I add some "hard to find" pieces. I hope that you find this book to be extremely valuable in your own work