New Frontiers in Colloid Science: A Celebration of the Career of Brian Vincent (Special Publications, 317) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0854041133 ISBN 13: 9780854041138

Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008

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Professor Brian Vincent is a leading light in colloid science both in the UK and internationally. The science Brian has been involved in has influenced many areas of colloids both academically and industrially. He has collaborated with many sectors of industry (including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, personal products, laundry products, paints and coatings). Brian has also been an active member of both the RSC and the SCI and has collaborated with many universities in the UK and overseas. Brian Vincent retired from the position of Leverhulme Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bristol at the end of 2007 after a long and distinguished career which started as a chemistry undergraduate in Bristol in 1961. After obtaining a 1st class honours degree in Chemistry and an MSc in Surface Chemistry and Colloids and a PhD, Brian then moved to Wageningen to work in Hans Lyklema's laboratory on a Royal Society Fellowship. This was to be the start of a lifelong friendship and scientific collaboration with the Colloid and Physical Chemistry Group there. After returning to the UK in 1969, Brian had a succession of top posts and appointments culminating in 1993 when he became the 5th Leverhulme Professor in Physical Chemistry. In 1994, together with Dr Jim Goodwin, Brian founded the very successful Bristol Colloid Centre, an organisation which carries out short-term research and consultancy work for industry. Brian has received many honours including the SCI Founder's Lecture and Award, the SCI Distinguished Service Award, the RSC award in Surface and Colloid Chemistry and the Rehbinder Lecture and Medal (Moscow). He has had numerous invitations to give lectures throughout the world and has published over 250 papers, articles, books and patents during his career. He has also been very active at the academic /industry interface and has been a consultant for many of the leading companies that use colloid technology worldwide. This unique book is effectively a compendium of Brian's research, complemented by contributions on current topics in colloids by some of the leading scientists in the field. It provides an overview of the broad spectrum of colloid and interface science in which Brian has been a research pioneer for many years. The contributors to this symposium volume comprise a selection of Brian's past students and postdocs who have themselves pursued academic careers and other colleagues with whom he has worked extensively, all of whom are of international standing in colloid science and as such make this book an invaluable reference tool. The book backs up a meeting organised jointly by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI Colloid & Surface Science Group and covers topics such as: "The Adsorption of Small, Negative Particles onto Large Positive Particles "Polymer Chemistry, Hypervelocity Physics and the CASSINI Space Mission "The BV Droplets Downunder: From Model Emulsions to Drug Delivery " Polymers and Surfactants at Interfaces "Controlled Release as Desorption from Porous Polymeric Systems "Characterisation and Application of Colloidal Micorogels "Surface Modification The range of the subject material highlights Brian's own very broad interests in colloid science; it also reflects his long-standing interest in both the academic fundamentals as well as practical applications of the subject. The volume is dedicated to Brian in recognition of his considerable contribution to the world of colloid science and to the guidance and inspiration he has given to many future generations of colloid scientists. However, the book is not just reflective, but provides insight into new areas in which colloid science is being applied. It has specific appeal to both colloid scientists in academia and industry who will find this book fascinating as well as an indispensable reference tool.

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Peter J Dowding, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is Principal Scientist at Infineum UK Limited an Exxon & Shell joint venture. He is leader for all background and fundamental studies of colloidal additives for future generations of additives used in lubricants and his research interests include: Surfactant Stabilised Nanoparticles, Steric Stabilisation, Surfactancy, Controlled Release, Supercritical Fluids and Properties of Asphaltenes. Terence Cosgrove is Professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol. Simon Biggs is Professor of Particle Science and Engineering, Institute for Particle Science and Engineering, The University of Leeds and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the American Chemical Society, the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, and the Royal Australian Chemical Society. His main research interests are in the field of colloid and interface science and he is recognised as a pioneer in the application of atomic force microscopy to the study of colloid and particle science. A significant number of his published papers were the first of their kind in the open literature - especially the work on the influence of polymers and surfactants on inter-particle forces.

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Professor Brian Vincent is a leading light in colloid science both in the UK and internationally. The science Brian has been involved in has influenced many areas of colloids both academically and industrially. He has collaborated with many sectors of industry (including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, personal products, laundry products, paints and coatings). Brian has also been an active member of both the RSC and the SCI and has collaborated with many universities in the UK and overseas. This unique book is effectively a compendium of Brian's research, complemented by contributions on current topics in colloids by some of the leading scientists in the field. It provides an overview of the broad spectrum of colloid and interface science in which Brian has been a research pioneer for many years. The authors are all collaborators and/or former students of Brian, and are of international standing in colloid science and as such make this book an invaluable reference tool. The book backs up a meeting organised jointly by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI Colloid & Surface Science Group and covers topics such as: -The Adsorption of Small, Negative Particles onto Large Positive Particles -Polymer Chemistry, Hypervelocity Physics and the CASSINI Space Mission -The BV Droplets Downunder: From Model Emulsions to Drug Delivery -Polymers and Surfactants at Interfaces -Controlled Release as Desorption from Porous Polymeric Systems -Characterisation and Application of Colloidal Micorogels -Surface Modification However, the book is not just reflective, but provides insight into new areas in which colloid science is being applied. It has specific appeal to colloid scientists in academia and industry who will find this book both fascinating and inspirational as well as an indispensable reference tool. Professor Brian Vincent is a leading light in colloid science both in the UK and internationally. The science he has been involved in has influenced many areas of colloids both academically and industrially. He has collaborated with many sectors of industry (including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, personal products, laundry products, paints and coatings). Brian Vincent has also been an active member of both RSC Publishing and the SCI and has collaborated with many universities in the UK and overseas. This unique book is effectively a compendium of Professor Brian Vincent's research, complemented by contributions on current topics in colloids by some of the leading scientists in the field. It provides an overview of the broad spectrum of colloid and interface science in which Professor Brian Vincent has been a research pioneer for many years. The authors are all collaborators and/or former students of Professor Vincent, and are of international standing in colloid science and as such make this book an invaluable reference tool. The book backs up a meeting organised jointly by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI Colloid & Surface Science Group and covers topics such as: -The Adsorption of Small, Negative Particles onto Large Positive Particles -Polymer Chemistry, Hypervelocity Physics and the CASSINI Space Mission -The BV Droplets Downunder: From Model Emulsions to Drug Delivery -Polymers and Surfactants at Interfaces -Controlled Release as Desorption from Porous Polymeric Systems -Characterisation and Application of Colloidal Micorogels -Surface Modification However, the book is not just reflective, but provides insight into new areas in which colloid science is being applied. It has specific appeal to colloid scientists in academia and industry who will find this book both fascinating and inspirational as well as an indispensable reference tool.

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New Frontiers in Colloid Science

A Celebration of the Career of Brian Vincent

By Simon Biggs, Terence Cosgrove, Peter Dowding

The Royal Society of Chemistry

Copyright © 2008 The Royal Society of Chemistry
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-85404-113-8

Contents

Chapter 1 A Journey Through Colloid Science Brian Vincent, 
Chapter 2 Synthesis of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel Particles Containing Gold Nanoshell Cores with Potential for Triggered De-swelling Paul Luckham, Carlo Strazza, Pierre Bussierre, Paulo Nassari and Neil Patel, 
Chapter 3 Polymer Chemistry, Hypervelocity Physics and the Cassini Space Mission Steven P. Armes, 
Chapter 4 From Novel Monodisperse "Silicone Oil"/Water Emulsions to Drug Delivery Clive A. Prestidge, 
Chapter 5 Polymers and Surfactants at Interfaces: Colloidal Lego for Nanotechnology Simon Biggs, 
Chapter 6 Polymer Depletion: Recent Progress for Polymer/Colloid Phase Diagrams Gerard Fleer, 
Chapter 7 Nanobubbles, Dissolved Gas, Boundary Layers and Related Mysterious Effects in Colloid Stability John Ralston, 
Chapter 8 Heteroflocculation Studies of Colloidal Poly(N-isopropyl-acrylamide) Microgels with Polystyrene Latex Particles: Effect of Particle Size, Temperature and Surface Charge Martin J. Snowden, Louise H. Gracia and Hani Nur, 
Chapter 9 Surface Modification, Encapsulation and Coating: A Career Built on Graft David Fairhurst, 
Subject Index, 194, 

CHAPTER 1

A Journey Through Colloid Science

Brian Vincent

SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, BRISTOL BS8 1TS, UK

1.1 Early Days

Colloid science was not part of the chemistry curriculum at Bristol University during my undergraduate years (1961–4). However, interfacial science was very strongly established at Bristol, both in teaching and research. The Leverhulme Chair in Physical Chemistry had been established in Bristol in 1919, in part to keep J.W. McBain (a Canadian) from being tempted back to North America. McBain had been appointed as a lecturer in chemistry in the old University College of Bristol in 1906, three years before the University of Bristol received its charter and four years before the first, purpose-built university chemistry building in Woodland Road was completed. McBain rapidly established his name internationally for his work on the association of soap molecules in solution; hence the approach to Lord Leverhulme, who had built his soap factory (and Port Sunlight village for his workers) in Cheshire. Eventually, in 1927, McBain did succumb to a position in the USA, at Stanford University. In his place, W.E. Garner (an expert in solid-state chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis) was appointed to the Leverhulme Chair, and he was followed in turn by Douglas Everett in 1954. Douglas's primary early interests were in gas adsorption (especially the role of porosity) and in adsorption from solution.

I joined Douglas's very large research group in the academic year 1963–4 to carry out my final year undergraduate research project, although my project was supervised on a day-to-day basis by Alan Leadbetter (as was that of a contemporary chemistry student and good friend to this day, Terry Blake). My project was concerned with determining the surface tension, at low temperatures, of liquid ethane and nitrous oxide for some porosity studies Douglas was doing at that time. It required the building of a high-vacuum rig, for distilling the two liquids into a differential capillary rise cell. This was a challenging task for an undergraduate, but I received splendid help from a young trainee glassblower at that time, one Jim Goodwin, who, much later, after having obtained his PhD, transferred to the academic staff at Bristol and subsequently became an internationally renowned rheologist! Despite only obtaining reliable results pretty close to the end of my allocated project time, that work did result in my first scientific publication. In addition to Terry Blake, there were several others doing their undergraduate projects in physical chemistry at the same time, and with whom I have remained in contact over the years: John Comyn who became a professor in polymer science at De Montfort University, David Billett who worked at Tioxide before becoming a school teacher, Julian Waters who went to ICI Paints and Barry Ingram who had a long career with Proctor and Gamble.

During my final undergraduate year, in early 1964, a new lecturer was appointed in physical chemistry. He initially set up his equipment in our laboratory, where he also located his desk and his cohort of young researchers from Cambridge he had brought with him. That was Ron Ottewill, who subsequently went on to become the fourth Leverhulme Professor of Physical Chemistry, succeeding Douglas in 1982. Ron brought with him to Bristol expertise in colloid science. Douglas had hired him primarily to set up, along with Dr Aitken Couper, a new postgraduate, one-year master of science course in surface chemistry and colloids, by advanced study and research. Despite having applied to do a postgraduate teacher-training course, I was "informed", as was Dave Billett, by Douglas Everett that we were to be "guinea pig" students on that very first MSc course in 1964–5 (the course was to last for more than 30 years!). There were six of us in total in that first year. The first two academic terms (twenty weeks) were spent doing lectures and "set experiments" (although most of these had to be set up as we went along!). The summer was spent doing a four-month research project, and I was allotted to work in Ron Ottewill's group. That was where and when my introduction to the world of colloid science began, and I followed this up working with Ron for my PhD (1965–8).

At the time of his move to Bristol, Ron had already established himself as a leading international expert in the field of polymer latices prepared by emulsion polymerisation. My PhD project was concerned with studying the properties of polystyrene latex particles in alcohol–water media. The work fell in two parts. The first part was concerned with determining the composite adsorption isotherms of a series of alcohol (methanol to n-butanol)–water mixtures onto polystyrene particles, together with contact angle (sessile drop) studies of these same liquid mixtures onto thin polystyrene films, prepared by dissolving the latex particles in methylethylketone and evaporating a liquid film of the resulting solution on a glass slide placed in an oven. That work was followed up by me later with a theoretical analysis of the data, which led to a value for the surface tension of polystyrene (55 [+ or -] 3 mN m-1), and which was published as a conference proceedings. However, in hindsight, a much longer-term research interest was to develop from the second part of my PhD project. This was concerned with the coagulation (and corresponding electrophoretic mobility) studies of polystyrene latex particles (with surface carboxylic acid groups) in alcohol–water mixtures. We showed that the critical coagulation concentration (c.c.c.) for Ba(ClO4) 2 passed through a maximum with increasing concentration for each of the lower alcohols, from methanol to n-butanol. This was mirrored by corresponding maxima in the (negative) electrophoretic mobility of the particles and also in the relative adsorption of the alcohol molecules concerned on the particles. The explanation offered was that, at low concentrations of each alcohol species, the specific adsorption of the Ba2+ ions on the COO- groups on the...

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• Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0854041133
• ISBN 13: 9780854041138
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 199
• Herausgeber: Biggs Simon, Cosgrove Terence, Dowding Peter
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