This book develops the thesis that structure and function in a variety of condensed systems - from the atomic assemblies in inorganic frameworks and organic molecules, through molecular self-assemblies to proteins - can be unified when curvature and surface geometry are taken together with molecular shape and forces. An astonishing variety of synthetic and biological assemblies can be accurately modelled and understood in terms of hyperbolic surfaces, whose richness and beauty are only now being revealed by applied mathematicians, physicists, chemists and crystallographers. These surfaces,...

Covering the analysis of droplet characteristics using low-intensity ultrasound, this reference examines droplet flocculation and coalescence in dilute oil-in-water emulsions, beverage emulsions, rheology of concentrated emulsions, surface forces in emulsions, molecular organization in lipids and food emulsifiers.