Description
This book describes in detail the scientific philosophy of the formation and stabilization-destabilization of foams. It presents all hierarchical steps of a foam, starting from the properties of adsorption layers formed by foaming agents, discussing the properties of foam films as the building blocks of a foam, and then describing details of real foams, including many fields of application. The information presented in the book is useful to people working on the formulation of foams or attempting to avoid or destruct foams in unwanted situations.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface............................................................................................................................................xvii
Introduction......................................................................................................................................xix
Editors..............................................................................................................................................xxi
Contributors………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xxiii
Section I Adsorption Layers
Chapter 1 The Surface Layer as the Basis for Foam Formation and Stability..............................3
Libero Liggieri, Elena Mileva, and Reinhard Miller
Section II Foam Films
Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives on Foam Films....................................................................... 59
Georgi Gochev, Dimo Platikanov, and Reinhard Miller
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Foam Films......................................................................................77
Dimo Platikanov and Dotchi Exerowa
Chapter 4 Surfactant Stabilized Foam Films...............................................................................99
Elena Mileva
Chapter 5 Foam Films Stabilized by Polymers and Proteins.................................................... 121
Georgi Gochev and Nora Kristen-Hochrein
Chapter 6 Biomedical Foam Films............................................................................................ 139
Dotchi Exerowa and Roumen Todorov
Chapter 7 Foam Films Stabilised by Particles........................................................................... 157
Gareth Morris and Jan Cilliers
Section III Foams
Chapter 8 Historical Perspectives on Foams............................................................................. 169
M. Vignes-Adler
Chapter 9 Fundamentals of Foam Formation............................................................................ 185
Wiebke Drenckhan, Aouatef Testouri, and Arnaud Saint-Jalmes
Chapter 10 Foam Formation Techniques..................................................................................... 199
Wiebke Drenckhan, Aouatef Testouri, and Arnaud Saint-Jalmes
Chapter 11 Foam Stabilization Mechanisms............................................................................... 213
D. Langevin
Chapter 12 Role of Foam Films in Foam Stability...................................................................... 233
Khristo Khristov
Chapter 13 Surfactant-Stabilized Foams.....................................................................................245
Arnaud Saint-Jalmes
Chapter 14 Protein-Stabilized Foams.......................................................................................... 261
Christophe Schmitt, Deniz Z. Gunes, Cécile Gehin-Delval, and
Martin E. Leser
Chapter 15 Foams Stabilized by Particles................................................................................... 279
Marcel Krzan, Agnieszka Kulawik-Pióro, and Bożena Tyliszczak
Section IV Structure of Foams and Antifoaming
Chapter 16 The Structure of Liquid Foams.................................................................................295
Stefan Hutzler and Wiebke Drenckhan
Chapter 17 Foam Rheology.........................................................................................................309
Norbert Willenbacher and Meike Lexis
Chapter 18 Mechanisms of Antifoam Action.............................................................................. 331
P. R. Garrett
Section V Applications
Chapter 19 Foam Fractionation................................................................................................... 371
Vamseekrishna Ulaganathan and Georgi Gochev
Chapter 20 Foams in Food........................................................................................................... 379
Deniz Z. Gunes, Jan Engmann, Cécile Gehin-Delval, Christophe Schmitt,
and Martin E. Leser
Chapter 21 The Froth in Froth Flotation..................................................................................... 401
Rossen Sedev and Jason N. Connor
Chapter 22 Fire Fighting Foams.................................................................................................. 433
Dirk Blunk
Chapter 23 Metallic Foams..........................................................................................................445
F. García-Moreno
Chapter 24 Ceramic Foams.........................................................................................................465
F. A. Costa Oliveira
Chapter 25 Ceramic Foams via a Direct Foaming Technique..................................................... 477
Philip N. Sturzenegger and Urs T. Gonzenbach
Index...............................................................................................................................................489
