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Challenging the cherished notions of colloidal theory, Barry Ninham and Pierandrea Lo Nostro confront the scientific lore of molecular forces and colloidal science in an incisive and thought-provoking manner. The authors explain the development of these classical theories, discussing amongst other topics electrostatic forces in electrolytes, specific ion effects and hydrophobic interactions. Throughout the book they question assumptions, unearth flaws and present new results and ideas. From such analysis, a qualitative and predictive framework for the field emerges; the impact of this is discussed in the latter half of the book through force behaviour in self assembly. Here, numerous diverse phenomena are explained, from surfactants to biological applications, all richly illustrated with pertinent, intellectually stimulating examples. With mathematics kept to a minimum, and historic facts and anecdotes woven through the text, this is a highly engaging and readable treatment for students and researchers in science and engineering.
- Sales Rank: #3777911 in Books
- Published on: 2010-05-17
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.72" h x .79" w x 6.85" l, 1.95 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 362 pages
Review
"Science regularly progresses at a deliberate pace; each proclaimed advance is measured and tested against the accepted paradigm. Intermittently this slow and conventional flow is upset by someone with superior intellect, originality and creativity to challenge the established rules by unearthing flaws and outllining the consequences of the corrected framework. This has happened in colloid science with the publication of the book by Barry Ninham and Pierandrea Lo Nostro, in which a new paradigm is outlined for molecular forces and their consequences for colloidal systems....The book is priced to be available also to graduate students, please read it and start a serious discussion"
Stig E. Friberg, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology
"The book's erudite and engaging presentation deftly weaves in the results of eminent scientists from Isaac Newton to Lars Onsager and sheds light on how disparate physical laws are glued together in contemporary theories."
Physics Today
"Molecular Forces and Self Assembly is an interesting book for any researcher in the area of colloid and interface science. Graphs, pictures, and mathematical equations are well organized and of consistently high quality."
H. Giesche, Choice Magazine
About the Author
Barry W. Ninham, a pioneer of modern theory describing molecular forces, interactions, and self assembly, is currently Professor Emeritus of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University (ANU). He has been an active researcher for over 40 years, over which time he has authored or co-authored 7 books and more than 400 technical papers. He has received numerous awards, including the Ostwald Award of the German Chemical Society (2005) and the SIS Nestle-Mittal Award (2004), and, in 2008, ANU created the Barry Ninham Chair of Natural Sciences Award to recognize his contributions.
Pierandrea Lo Nostro is a Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florence, from where he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in 1992. His current research interests include macromolecular self-assembly (polypseudorotaxanes), self-assembly of biocompatible surfactants, and specific ion effects (Hofmeister series).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Full of ideas, but weak presentation
By A. J. Sutter
This book reads like a very, very rough first draft of an extremely interesting (and gigantic) review article, parts of which are in need of updating. Here's an explication of each of the terms of this expression.
(1) Extremely interesting. The gist of the book is that there's a lot wrong, at a very fundamental level, with traditional colloid science and the many physical chemistry concepts related to it -- including such staples of the undergrad curriculum as pH and pKa. Many effects in biochemistry, and in such diverse fields as geology and the clothing industry, depend on effects caused by specific ions, and/or by gases dissolved in water. Conventional models don't recognize these real-world impurities, and consequently rely on a Ptolemaic zoo of ad hoc parameters without much physical motivation. I'm not a chemist of any sort, much less a physical chemist, so there were numerous topics in this book that were new to me, including Hofmeister (a/k/a "specific ion") effects, Lifshitz theory, bicontinuous surfactant domains, and even the frequency dependence of van der Waals forces; maybe the book will be less novel to you (a lot has been written about most of the topics on this list). But especially the more up-to-date chapters in the book (Chapters 7, on specific ion effects, and 8 on dissolved gas effects) make a provocative case for textbook colloid science and much else being based on false premises. Given their extreme interest, then, it's unfortunate that these topics are presented in such an un-pedagogical and disorganized manner.
(2) Gigantic review article: The audience for this book is very unclear. The preface recites (@xii), "We have avoided mathematics as far as possible: on the grounds that those who do not speak the language of mathematics and physics would be none the wiser for its inclusion. For readers who do speak that language it would be superfluous, as the technicalities can easily be tracked down via the literature cited." In fact, the first sentence is either disingenuous or, more likely, a sincere but wild miscalculation. Many key concepts, such as the nature of Van der Waals forces, are not explained for non-physical chemist readers. While there are a fair number of graphs showing variations in various physical parameters, there are relatively few conceptual or schematic diagrams in the book, making it difficult for newcomers to visualize what's being discussed. The audience really seems to be those who will track down the literature: many topics are described in a sentence or two, culminating in a citation (see, e.g., Sections 5.9. 5.10, 7.3, 8.3 and 12.5, just to choose a few at random). For this reason, the book reads more like a book-length review paper than a textbook.
This might be tolerable for many readers, but the citations themselves are worrisome. Contrary to the practice in many leading journals (Nature, Science, PNAS, etc.), the book's citation lists don't contain titles of journal articles. While some other journals follow the same unfortunate practice, this is discouraging to the curious reader. It also makes precision in citations all the more critical, since volume and page numbers are all you have to go on. Here, the book's cites don't inspire confidence. Even though I'm not an expert in the pertinent literature, it was obvious to me that many of the same sources are cited in chapter after chapter -- repeating some obvious errors each time, such as misspelling at least one author's name ("Larson" for K�re Larsson's surname). In Chapter 6, the same book appears twice in the citation list (see references 53 and 88, each citing the book in its entirety). Obviously, there was a lot of cutting and pasting, with little or no cite checking or even basic proofreading.
(3) Updating: Some portions of the book are less up-to-date than others. I was particularly disappointed by Chapters 9-12, on self-assembly. There's been a lot of interesting work done in the past decade on self-assembly using block copolymers; my hopes of reading an overview of this work had been one of the reasons I'd bought the book. However, the chapters in question are exclusively about surfactants. While there are many interesting (if repeated) comments about the impact of lidocane and spider venoms on the geometry of lipid-based biomembranes, etc., the references in these chapters are mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. The few cites in these chapters more recent than 2002 tend to be based on work by the authors' frequent collaborators. Certainly a book that went to the printer in 2009 or 2010 could have taken a broader view of this topic, and relied on deeper sourcing.
(4) Rough first draft: In a departure from custom, the authors' acknowledgments omit mention of any editor at Cambridge U Press. Reading the book, I came to have several reasons to doubt that any such editor existed.
(A) The book suffers from repetitions at several scales. At the macro scale, the most obvious instance is the "self-contained" Chapter 7, which repeats a lot of material from earlier chapters. At the meso scale, numerous anecdotes, interesting factoids, and attempts at piquant expression are repeated verbatim or almost so. Sometimes these are far apart, e.g. the discussion of "conceptual locks" and a quote from S.J. Gould's "Eight Little Piggies" that appear in both the first and last chapters (@8-9; 352). At other times, they are within a few lines of each other, as in "We ignore the finite velocity of light here," repeated verbatim twice, 6 lines apart, @195. This one is all the more puzzling because the equation in question doesn't include any factor of the speed of light; BTW the same passage refers to an integral when only a sum is shown. Others are repeated with slight discrepancies, as in the descriptions of microstructures arising from different values of the external curvature parameter (@267 and 299). Comments about dugongs (@180, 327), potato chips (@302, 311) and papadums (id.) are further examples.
(B) There are striking repetitions and odd usages of uncommon words, such as "bugbear" @15 and again @16, "bemused on" @174 and "extravagant[ly]", which last the authors use only oxymoronically @106, 259, 315 -- an editor might have been relied on to persuade them that once was perhaps more than enough. An editor might also have caught some very awkward expressions, such as "this classical accepted quantum mechanical result of more than 50 years standing" (@104), which might be intelligible, and "the atmospheric gas, at 1 mol/L, drops to a density of about 5x10^(-2) M over the first few water molecules of oil" (@30), which probably is not.
(C) Other organizational issues: Many topics are discussed out of sequence, such as the explanation of "kosmotrope" and "chaotrope," which occurs in a chapter subsequent to one in which these terms are relied on. An Appendix to Chapter 6 is promised (@96) but does not exist.
(D) There are also substantive errors that even I was able to notice, ranging from a mangled quote from D'Arcy Thompson (rendered pointless @3) to an assertion that a restriction enzyme "has a hydrophobic pocket, an 'active site' formed by a sequence of nucleotides" (@125; the enzyme's active site *selects for* a nucleotide sequence, but is itself comprised of peptide-linked amino acids).
(5) Finally, I had some substantive concerns, too. The authors' iconoclasm sometimes seemed too glib and far reaching: not content with upending colloid chemistry, they also suggest en passant that a self-published theory of geology by an Australian author "if correct, has the same importance to that subject as Darwin's to biology" (@72) and that "all of nuclear physics" is just as messed-up as colloid chemistry (@109). If I may borrow a word, such extravagant claims so lightly made don't build confidence. A bigger problem is the unclear ontological status of "structured water," including kosmotropes and chaotropes. The authors acknowledge that this model is "confusing," that it "is still debated, and more recent results corroborate some criticism [cites]" (@49), but they *never discuss* this criticism beyond this brief reference. Since their explanation of specific ion effects seems to rely on structured water, and since the two papers they cite, plus others, present evidence denying its existence, this leaves a reader, even one sympathetic to iconolclasts, wondering whom to believe.
In sum: the book contains a lot of interesting material, but suffers from a very problematic presentation. Sadly, it also suggests that editorial standards at Cambridge University Press have taken a sharp and serious turn for the worse.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A vague and pedantic discussion on molecular forces
By Didier
I had read the table content of this book on amazon, which looked very complete and interesting. Given the fact that this book is co-written by a co-author of a classic on the subject, I looked forward reading and studying this book in detail. When receiving the book, I felt totally dispppointed. This is not a book for scientists. All the chapters are written as a general discussion on the considered topics, with general considerations on the subject. From time to time, an equation appears, cut from any context. If do not know already of the subject, this is totally impossible to really understand the meaning. In fact, you cannot learn things which you do not know already, and when reading them, you feel compelled to look back to your earlier readings on the subject. An example, which is representative of the general way the book is written: regarding interactions between charged surfaces immersed in an ionic solution: "a general (but not trivial) argument allows for wirting that the force is given by:". The equation follows, but the general argument is not given, and the authors proceed then to vague discussions on other subjects, and so on. In fact this book cannot be useful for the specialist of the subject, neither to the non-specialist researcher, nor to the young researcher who may want to enter this domain. One cannot use the book to prepare a course on the subject also. The authors have written a narcissic book, to please themselves. The editor hasn't done his job and has published a book which should damage its reputation. The title of the book should be "Vague and pedantic considerations on molecular forces". This book is totally useless and a waste of money. I am looking to sell it back.
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