THEORY OF THE STABILITY
OF LYOPHOBIC COLLOIDS

Contents:

Part I: Theory of a single double layer

1. Introduction

2. Distribution of the electric charge and potential in the electrochemical double layer

3. The free energy of a double layer system

Part II: On the interaction of the parallel flat plates

4. Charge and potential for the case of two flat double layers in interaction

5. The potential energy due to the interaction of two flat double layers

6. The Van Der Waals – London attractive forces

7. Total potential energy (repulsion + attraction) for two plates, and application to colloid stability

Part III: On the interaction of spherical colloidal particles

8. Introduction

9. The potential energy of interaction for large particles with a relatively thin double layer

10. The potential energy of interaction when x a is small (linear approximation)

11. The attractive force and the total potential energy of interaction

12. Stability of colloids

Appendix

13. Theoretical work on the stability of lyophobic colloids by previous authors