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This course also explores topics typically relevance to industrial chemists and engineers working in
areas such as coating, paints, textile, pigments, cements, pharmaceutical, foods, latex/emulsions
industries. The students will also learn a range of techniques for characterization of these systems.
Topics will be taught in the course are as follow:

 Dispersion properties — Introduction to particles and colloidal suspension. colloidal
stability, flow properties, viscosity and viscoelasticity, colloidal or surface forces such as
AFM and SFA.
 Surface Properties — Wettability (contact angle goniometer), surface and interfacial
tension/energy (tensiometer).
 Particulate properties Surface area (gas adsorption and BET), particle size distribution
and shape (Laser light scattering), surface charges and surface potential,
(Electrophoretic mobility, electroacoustic).

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%

Medium of Instruction:
English

Transferable Skills:
-

Humanity Skill:
CS2, CTPS2, LL2

References:
1. Evans, D. F., The colloidal domain: where physics, chemistry, biology, and technology meet
2nd ed., New York: Wiley-VCH, 1999.
2. Hiemenz, P. C., Principles of colloid and surface chemistry 3rd ed,. New York: Marcel Dekker,
1997.
3. Atkins P. W., Physical chemistry 8th ed., Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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