The surfactant industry is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, producing products that are used in many different applications, from personal care products (soaps, shampoos etc) through detergents for home and industrial use, to products such as inks and paints. A detailed understanding of their use in the formulation of such products is required in those industries, yet like much of applied chemistry, the new graduate or postgraduate chemist or chemical engineer will have little or no experience of how and why surfactants work. Chemistry and Technology of Surfactants is aimed at new...
The surfactant industry is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, producing products that are used in many different applications, from personal ca...