Showing papers in "Advances in Colloid and Interface Science in 2010"

TL;DR: The current status of microbial synthesis and applications of metal nanoparticles is presented and several factors such as microbial cultivation methods and the extraction techniques have to be optimized and the combinatorial approach such as photobiological methods may be used.

TL;DR: Most of the NOM can be removed by coagulation, although, the hydrophobic fraction and high molar mass compounds of NOM are removed more efficiently than hydrophilic fraction and the low molarmass compounds.

TL;DR: There is a need for edible delivery systems to encapsulate, protect and release bioactive and functional lipophilic constituents within the food and pharmaceutical industries, and emulsion technology is particularly suited for the design and fabrication of delivery systems for lipids.

TL;DR: This paper is derived from a training session prepared for COST P21 and is intended as an introduction to superhydrophobicity to scientists who may not work in this area of physics or to students.

TL;DR: It is shown that the intensive current modes in electrodialysis are compatible with new trends in water treatment oriented towards Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technologies.

TL;DR: This review critically summarises the findings of partial coalescence in oil-in-water emulsions in order to provide insight in how to enhance and retard it.

TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to bring together the many experimental results on nanobubbles and the resulting capillary force in order to clarify these phenomena, and a review of pertinentnanobubble stability and formation theories is presented.

TL;DR: The relation between bulk and surface complexation will be discussed in this review and the emphasis will be given to the results obtained by the teams of the EC-funded Marie Curie RTN "SOCON".

TL;DR: It is proposed that measurements of the bubble-particle attachment can be used to interpret changes in flotation behaviour or, in conjunction with other factors, such as particle size and gas dispersion, to predict flotation performance.

TL;DR: This paper reviews the experimental progress made in the last few years, the theoretical framework required for modelling and understanding the relevant physico-chemical surface phenomena, and new containerless methods for surface tension measurements.

TL;DR: This review is dedicated to recent developments on the topic of light sensitive polymer-based microcapsules, which are constructed using the layer-by-layer self-assembly method and consist in absorbing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes onto charged sacrificial particles.

TL;DR: The present paper reviews the synthesis of mesoporous silicas and important issues related to the development of meso-silica and highlights the recent studies on the CO(2) separation using ordered mesoporus silicas (OMS) as adsorbent and membrane.

TL;DR: A state of the art review of coconut-based biosorbents used for water pollution control is presented, highlighting and discussing key advancement on the preparation of novel adsorbents utilizing coconut wastes, its major challenges together with the future prospective.

TL;DR: A general integral expression for the capillary force was derived and applied to obtain convenient asymptotic formulas for the force and energy of interaction between capillary multipoles of arbitrary orders, which have a wider range of validity in comparison with the previously published ones.

TL;DR: In this review, research on two-dimensional nanoartchitectonics is classified and summarized according to the type of interface used, and the more complex molecules discussed in this work are C(60)-fullerene derivatives and designer DNA strands are discussed.

TL;DR: It is concluded that strong interactions in these systems arise from the electrostatic attraction, but this only forms the basis for initial extensive accumulation (anchoring) of surfactant ions in the vicinity of the polyion chain.

TL;DR: The recent advances of ceramic membranes for the separation of oxygen from air at high temperature are presented and issues and problems with respect to the selectivity and separation performance are covered.

TL;DR: The review addresses the peculiarities of concentration polarization caused by an electric current passing through conducting and around nonconducting charged materials and its influence on electrokinetic phenomena and mass transfer through ion-exchange materials.

TL;DR: The kinetics of particle deposition and the structure of monolayers are analyzed quantitatively in terms of the generalized random sequential adsorption (RSA) model, considering the coupling of the bulk and surface transport steps.

TL;DR: Conclusively, the expanding of activated carbons composites material represents a potentially viable and powerful tool, leading to the plausible improvement of environmental conservation, and its major challenges together with the future expectation are summarized and discussed.

TL;DR: An introduction is given to the physics of mixed biopolymer solutions and the behaviour of their phases, with a view to highlighting the unique aspects of such materials in comparison to other liquid-liquid mixtures, and also the more interesting topics for future research in these fascinating materials.

TL;DR: The drop impact dynamics of highly viscous Newtonian and complex rheology liquids used in pharmaceutical coating processes are uncovered, revealing that splashing and rebounding are completely inhibited and the role of wettability is negligible in the early stages of impact.

TL;DR: Interplay between protonation/deprotonation of surface functional groups and auto-protolysis of interfacial water will cause the observed zeta potentials and isoelectric points and can explain the available information in a qualitative way.

TL;DR: This article uses the results from continuum thermodynamics to discuss the possibility of formation of stable equilibrium vesicles, from both mixed amphiphiles and single component systems, and links the bilayer membrane properties to the molecular structure of the starting amphiphilic molecules.

TL;DR: The model regards the phase behaviour of adsorbed monolayers on the basis of the experimental results explicitly supported by the first order fluid/condensed phase transition and theoretical models assuming bimodal distribution between large aggregates (domains) and monomers and/or very small aggregates.

TL;DR: The miniemulsion polymerization and copolymerization is ideal process for the preparation of composite nanoparticles with different structures and can be used to develop novel thermally responsive polymer microspheres, for example, based on N-isopropylacrylamide monomer.

TL;DR: The use of EW as a tool to extract materials properties such as interfacial tensions and elastic properties of drops and some modifications of the EW equation that apply at finite AC voltage for low conductivity fluids when the electric field can partially penetrate into the drops are described.

TL;DR: It is concluded that early studies of the heparin-Antithromin system, proceeding to a large extent through the methods and models of protein chemistry and drug discovery, established not only many enabling precedents but also constraining paradigms.

TL;DR: The role of both protein and membrane charge on the rate of protein transport and the potential of exploiting these electrostatic interactions for selective protein separations and for the development of ultrafiltration membranes with enhanced performance characteristics are reviewed.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the pressure-driven confined flow behavior of isolated droplets in circular and rectangular cross-section channels, which are valuable model geometries to gain insight into more complex flow conditions found in industrial applications.