Emulsion, Suspension, Solid Compound Technology and Application

Author: Morlet
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Many chemical substances or compounds—organic or inorganic, natural or synthetic—cannot be used in their pure form. To make the active ingredients more effective or to obtain the ideal market circulation form, effective synthesis and purification steps are required after complexation to obtain final products such as powders, lumps, particles, suspensions, emulsions, microemulsions, microcapsules, instant products, liposomes, and tablets. Complexation combines colloid and surface chemistry with chemical engineering; sometimes it involves simple mixing operations, and sometimes it requires a set of quite complex process procedures, such as crushing, dispersion, emulsification, agglomeration, and drying. This book introduces both the basic physical chemistry theory and its application in the chemical industry for manufacturing pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyes and pigments, food, detergents, cosmetics, and many other products; it also provides chemists and chemical engineers with practical methods for understanding the structure-activity relationship.