IT is stated in the preface that this book has passed through three large editions in Germany. We are inclined to think that such success was due more to the fact that it was first in the field as a ...

The film "The Colloidal State" explores the concept of colloids, which are materials in a dispersion where small particles of one substance are distributed throughout another. It distinguishes ...

Nanotechnology is generally seen as a relatively new invention. It is generally accepted to have been officially born as a discipline with Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture, "There's plenty of room at ...

We investigated the transport of the cations Cs+ and Sr2+ in flow-through and recirculating saturated quartz porous media in the absence and presence of illite colloids to examine the effect of cation ...

Lee R. White wanted to be a theoretical physicist. But while he was finishing his doctoral degree, an applied math professor talked him into examining the forces between particles in solution.

For more than 25 years, Robert J. Hamers, the Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been discovering fundamental phenomena in the surface ...