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Zeta Potential
Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2026
- Authors: Andrei S. Dukhin, Renliang Xu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 4 4 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 4 4 4 - 3
Zeta Potential has been known for more than one hundred years as a characteristic of the Interfacial Electric Double layer that control many properties and processes in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteZeta Potential has been known for more than one hundred years as a characteristic of the Interfacial Electric Double layer that control many properties and processes in dispersions, emulsions, and wet porous materials. It appears in many fundamental studies of such systems. It is a parameter used more and more in nanotechnology, biomedical and many other fields. However, due to the lack of corresponding education in colleges and graduate schools, many users, even some senior researchers, do not fully understand the concept and many mistakes appear in publications and applications. Recently, application of the zeta potential has expanded more into formulation and even quality control of these heterogeneous systems. The main goal of this book is to reflect this switch. In contrast to previously published books on this subject, it places emphasis on modern measurement methods that allow expansion in zeta potential usage and applications. Major focus is given to the three critical electrokinetic phenomena that serve as a basis for modern methods of zeta potential measurements: electrophoresis, electroacoustics and streaming current. The section on these methods will help the reader to navigate between different methods and select the one that is most appropriate for their application. The section on applications includes reviews of hundreds published papers so the reader can find previously published data on similar projects. Zeta Potential: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications addresses the need for an up-to-date book focusing on the principles and practice of zeta potential measurements, providing readers with comprehensive and readily understandable coverage. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary audience of researchers, engineers and students who are involved in studying or using in industry complex heterogeneous liquids, like dispersions and emulsions, as well as wetted porous materials. This includes but is not limited to materials/colloids and interface chemists, chemical engineers, material scientists, biophysicists, and biochemists.
• Explains the fundamentals of the zeta potential concept and provides formulae based on well verified and widely accepted theoretical models for interfacial double layer and electrokinetic phenomena
• Introduces common technologies for characterizing zeta potential, including the most widely used contemporary measuring methods and interpretation procedures for converting raw measured data into zeta potential
• Provides useful examples of applications for a wide variety of R&D and industrial fields
• Introduces common technologies for characterizing zeta potential, including the most widely used contemporary measuring methods and interpretation procedures for converting raw measured data into zeta potential
• Provides useful examples of applications for a wide variety of R&D and industrial fields
The book is primarily written for an interdisciplinary audience of researchers, engineers and students who are involved in studying or using in industry complex heterogeneous liquids, like dispersions and emulsions, as well as wetted porous materials. This includes but is not limited to materials/colloids and interface chemists, chemical engineers, material scientists, biophysicists, and biochemists.
SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS 1. Introduction: Interface and Zeta potential 2. Electric Double Layer 2.1 Classical Gouy-Chapmann-Stern model 2.2 DL at high ionic strength 2.3 DL and ionization in non-polar liquids 2.4 DL of soft particles, polyelectrolyte layers 2.5 DL for mosaic surface charge 2.6 Overlapped DLs 2.7 Bio-specific mechanism DL formation 2.8 DL induced by external electric field 2.9 DL of bubbles in liquid 3. Electrophoresis 3.1 Classical theories 3.2 Advanced theories 4. Electroacoustics 4.1 Colloid Vibration Current 4.2 ElectricSonic Amplitude 5. Streaming current/potential 5.1 DC electric field for large pores 5.2 AC electric field at MHz range for small pores, seismo-electric current 6. Other electrokinetic phenomena 6.1 Electroosmosis 6.2 Sedimentation potential 6.3 Diffusiophoresis 6.4 Electro-viscous effect 6.5 Electrodiffusiophoresis 6.6 Non linear electrokinetic phenomena 6.6 Other phenomena SECTION II: METHODS 7. Introduction 8. Electrophoresis 8.1 Microelectrophoresis 8.2 Electrophoretic light scattering, Classical method 8.3 Electrophoretic light scattering, Phase analysis 9. Electroacoustics 9.1 Zeta potential by CVI method 9.2 Electroacoustic ESA method 10. Streaming current/potential 10.1 For porous materials with large pores in DC mode 10.2 For particles and flat surfaces in DC mode 10.3 For small pores in AC (MHz) mode 11. Measurement of zeta potential in Non-Newtonian liquids 12. Sample Preparation and Other methods 12.1 Sample preparation 12.2 Measurement of Debye length 12.3 Measurement of Dukhin number SECTION III: APPLICATIONS and CASE STUDIES 13. Colloidal stability 13.1 pH titrations and iso-electric point 13.2 Surfactant titrations 13.3 pKa estimation 13.4 Kinetic studies 14. Semiconductor industry 14.1 CASE study – CMP slurry 15. Energy industries 15.1 Batteries slurries 15.2 CASE study – drilling mud 16. Pulp and paper industry 17. Paints and inks 17.1. CASE study - Paint stability 17.1 CASE study – Wet toners 18. Cement industry 18.1 CASE study – Plasticizer effect 18.2 Effect of Zeta potential on cement hydration 19. Membranes 20. Mineral and ceramic industries 21. Biological and biomedical application 21.1 Proteins configuration 21.2 Proteins adsorption 21.3 Liposomes 21.4 Drug delivery 21.5 Biological cells 22. Sedimentation stability 23. Zeta potential of bubbles in liquid APPENDICES Appendix 1: Some History of Electrokinetics Appendix 2: Physical constants in Electrokinetics Appendix 3: Table of Symbols Appendix 4: Table of Terms
- No. of pages: 496
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443334436
- eBook ISBN: 9780443334443
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Andrei S. Dukhin
Andrei S. Dukhin is CEO and Co-Founder of Dispersion Technology, Inc., USA. He has been a leader in the development of a new technology for characterizing complex liquids that employs ultrasound for characterizing interfacial chemistry, particle size, and rheological properties of said systems. He has authored three books published by Elsevier, most recently Characterization of Liquids, Nano- and Microparticulates, and Porous Bodies using Ultrasound with Philip J. Goetz back in 2010. He holds 7 USA patents on electroacoustic methods of measuring zeta potential and has published more than 120 scientific papers. He established Dispersion Technology Inc, which installs more than 850 instruments for measuring zeta potential in 30 countries.
Affiliations and expertise
CEO, Dispersion Technology Inc., NY, USARX
Renliang Xu
Dr. Renliang Xu worked for three major particle characterization instrumentation companies in USA and UK, i.e., Malvern Instruments, Beckman-Coulter, and Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, in leading roles associated with zeta potential instrumentation. He has authored 3 professional books: one by Springer and two by Chemical Industry Press in Chinese, as well as five non-fiction books. He holds 3 USA patents on particle characterization and has published 70+ scientific papers.
Affiliations and expertise
Retired, Formerly Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, USA