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Naum B. Uriev

 

Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials

Physicochemical Dynamics of Structure Formation and Rheology

 

English translation by Flow-iD GmbH

 

 

 

 

 

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Preface

The monograph summarizes the long-term studies of the author in a new field of physical chemistry of dispersed systems and surface phenomena: physicochemical dynamics of dispersed systems and materials. The author studied this new trend in the Laboratory of Highly Concentration Dispersed Systems founded in 1985 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

A distinctive feature of the studies of the author and his laboratory presented in the book is that fundamental projects have been for many years implemented in many applied fields of engineering and technology. Moreover, a whole number of fundamental studies ensued and was induced by engineering challenges regarding various dispersed systems and materials.

The initial stage of studies by the author was related to his long-term work in the Department of Dispersed Systems headed by academician P.A. Rehbinder of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

The breadth of his scientific interests and the diversity of implementation of his results in various fields, including applied projects, served as a good example for the author in his research activity. At the same time, the author's long experience of delivering lectures at the Moscow Institute of Road Traffic (State Technical University) also promoted the application of fundamental developments in many fields of engineering and technology.

In the opinion of the author, the present, often significant, gap between the results of fundamental studies and their practical implementation in the technology of dispersed systems and materials is the major obstacle in the way of transition to a new, qualitatively higher level of solving technological problems in this field.

It is for this purpose that the goal set in this book was to justify the necessity and show the fundamental possibility of eliminating this gap and also formulating the ways and methods of solving this problem using the example of technology of various dispersed systems and materials.

This book is meant for senior students, Masters students, Ph.D. students, and faculty members in higher educational institutions, researchers of research institutes specializing in the field of fundamentals of technology of dispersed systems, dispersed composite materials, and methods of control of their structural–rheological properties in the procedures of their synthesis and processing. It includes lecture notes

The author's research was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 12-03-00473).

The author is grateful to his colleagues and his family for their support. Special thanks for support to Flow-iD GmbH (www.flow-id.ch) and especially to Dr Boris Ouriev for his editorial work.

Moscow
2016

Naum B. Uriev