Ordering and Phase Transitions in Charged Colloids

* Physical chemists will find this book comprehensive. Topical reviews on all aspects of colloidal ordering and related phase transitions will be covered. It provides a good blend of experimental and theoretical investigations. * Useful to materials scientists and chemical engineers, the book includes a discussion of stability, important from the point of view of applications of colloidal crystals. * Physicists will be interested in the book, because it highlights the controversy over effective interparticle interaction in charged colloids.

From the Contents: Interaction, Ordering and Phase Transitions in Charged Colloids: An Introduction/ Video-Microscopic and X-Ray Scattering Studies of Colloidal Dispersions/ Direct Imaging of the Local Dynamics of Colloidal Phase Transitions/ Kinetics of Colloidal Crystallization/ Kossel-Line Analysis for Colloidal Crystal Growth/ Photothermal Stability of Colloidal Crystals/ Order-Disorder Transition in Charged Polydisperse Colloids/ Vapor-Liquid Condensation and Reentrant Transition in Charged Colloids/ Theory of Interactions in Charged Colloids/ Liquid-Solid Transition in Colloidal Suspensions with and without External Emodulations: Density Functional Theory/ Dynamics of Charged Colloidal Suspensions Across the Freezing and Glass Transition/ Determination of Interaction Forces in Colloids: Direct and Indirect Methods.