1. Introduction to colloid science and rheology; 2. Hydrodynamic effects; 3. Brownian hard spheres; 4. Stable colloidal suspensions; 5. Non-spherical particles; 6. Weakly flocculated suspensions; 7. Thixotropy; 8. Shear thickening; 9. Rheometry of suspensions; 10. Suspensions in viscoelastic media; 11. Advanced topics.
Presented in an accessible and introductory manner, this is the first book devoted to the comprehensive study of colloidal suspensions.
Jan Mewis is Emeritus Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has lectured all over the world and has written over 200 publications on colloid science and rheology. He received the Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology and the Bingham Medal of The Society of Rheology (USA). Norman J. Wagner is a named Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has received several awards for his research developments, has co-authored over 180 scientific publications and patents, and is on the editorial boards of five international journals.
"...will help readers to gain a foothold in the basics of colloid science and rheology...The book should be a useful guide for academic and industrial researchers, as well as for graduate-level chemical engineering students." - CEP, April 2012
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