Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction.- 2: Depletion interaction.- 3: Phase transitions of hard spheres plus depletants; basics.- 4: Stability of colloid-polymer mixtures.- 5: Phase transitions of hard spheres plus colloids.- 6: Suspensions of rod-like colloids plus polymers.
Index

About the Author

Henk N.W. Lekkerkerker (1946) studied chemistry at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and obtained his doctorate at the University of Calgary (Canada) in 1971. He then moved to Brussels initially as a postdoctoral fellow at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and subsequently became a Professor of Theoretical Physical Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. From 1985 till present he is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Van 't Hoff laboratory, Utrecht University and since 2006 he is also Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Bakhuys Roozeboom Gold Medal, the Onsager Medal and the Liquid Matter Prize for his work on phase behavior of colloidal dispersions. Remco Tuinier (1971) studied food science at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and performed his PhD work at the NIZO food research institute and Wageningen University on exocellular polysaccharides and protein-polysaccharide mixtures, for which he received the International Food Ingredient Award in 1999. Subsequently, he worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University and as Project Leader at NIZO food research and in 2001 became a staff member at the Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany. Since 2008 he works at DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands, presently as Principal Scientist Colloids & Interfaces. The authors are collecting feedback and corrections in view of an improved new edition of this book. Please send them your comments at this address: depletionbook@gmail.com

Reviews

“Each chapter contains many and up-to-date references, but in the initial sections of the chapters, exercises are suggested which will help the interested reader to recapitulate the main points of the treatment and to deepen his understanding of the subject. … suitable also for advanced teaching purposes, useful for courses which deal with the physics of soft condensed matter. There does not yet exist any other book with a similar scope. … useful for students and related applied sciences alike.” (Kurt Binder, The European Physical Journal E, Vol. 38, 2015)