Colloidal Magnetic Fluids: Basics, Development and Application of Ferrofluids / Edition 1

by Stefan Odenbach

Overview

Research into the fascinating properties and applications of magnetic fluids - also called ferrofluids - is rapidly growing, making it necessary to provide, at regular intervals, a coherent and tutorial account of the combined theoretical and experimental advances in the field.

This volume is an outgrow of seven years of research by some 30 interdisciplinary groups of scientists: theoretical physicists describing the behaviour of such complex fluids, chemical engineers synthesizing nanosize magnetic particles, experimentalist measuring the fluid properties and mechanical engineers exploring the many applications such fluids offer, in turn providing application-guided feedback to the modellers and requests for the preparation of new fluid types to chemists, in particular those providing optimum response to given magnetic field configurations.

Moreover, recent developments towards biomedical applications widens this spectrum to include medicine and pharmacology.

Consisting of six large chapters on synthesis and characterization, thermo- and electrodynamics, surface instabilities, structure and rheology, biomedical applications as well as engineering and technical applications, this work is both a unique source of reference for anyone working in the field and a suitable introduction for newcomers to the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540853862
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/20/2009
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #763
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Synthesis and Characterization.- Thermodynamics, Electrodynamics, and Ferrofluid Dynamics.- Surface Instabilities of Ferrofluids.- Ferrofluid Structure and Rheology.- Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles.- Technical Applications.