Interfacial Forces in Aqueous Media

This thoroughly revised and reorganized edition examines the role of polar interfacial and noncovalent interactions among macromolecules, biopolymers, particles, surfaces, cells, and both polar and apolar polymers. New features include four previously unpublished chapters on interfacial properties and structure of liquid water; new material on the interplay between macroscopic-scale repulsions and microscopic-scale attractions in protein adsorption; and new chapters covering interfacial tension determination and examining the kinetics and energetics of protein adsorption onto metal oxide surfaces. The book also contains entirely revised γ_iw values, now derived from aqueous solubilities.