Highlights in Colloid Science

摘要

This book consists of 16 rather brief review articles on various topics with no central theme. They are arranged simply in the order of receipt by the editors. It is dedicated to Dr. Tharwat Tadros on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and it also commemorates the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Wiley Publishing House in New York, both worthy objectives, but the papers may have been published more reasonably as a special issue of a journal of review papers rather than as a hard-cover book. The articles are authored by investigators well-known in the subject matter of their respective reviews and in most cases primarily cover work from their own laboratories. The subject matter is so diverse that it defies categorization of any kind and perhaps reflects the unwieldy breadth toward which the subject of "colloid science" itself has evolved. One difficulty that the reader will have in navigating the material is that none of the papers has an abstract, and only some of them have summary statements or separate conclusions. One must therefore rely on the title and author(s) alone to decide whether or not to delve further.