Bubble and Foam Chemistry

Robert J. Pugh is a Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University. He is an active member of the foams community and has almost twenty years' experience in industry, having worked as a foam specialist for Dow Chemicals and Unilever Research. He has also acted as a consultant for Argus Fire, Akzo Nobel, Nestlé, GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor and Gamble, and Arizona Chemicals. He has edited two previous books in the field of surface and colloid science, and authored several highly cited review papers on the topic of foams and foaming.

• Preface; Symbols; 1. Basic principles and concepts; 2. The nature and properties of foaming surfactants; 3. Soap bubbles and foam films; 4. Processes in foaming; 5. The generation of bubbles and foams; 6. The coalescence of bubbles in surfactant solutions; 7. The stability/instability of bubbles and foams; 8. Particle stabilized bubbles and foams; 9. Foaming in non aqueous liquids; 10. Antifoaming and defoaming; 11. Bubble size measurements and foam test methods; 12. Developments in foam research.

'Bubble and Foam Chemistry covers the rarely discussed physical chemistry of liquid foams, such as why they form and how they can be measured and prevented … The book is full of illustrations, which are instructive for those involved in the field.' J. Allison, CHOICE