Colloid chemistry of silica - an overview, Horacio E. Bergna. Part 1 Preparation of sols: silica nucleation, polymerization and growth - preparation of monodispersed sols, Akitoshi Yoshida; the formation and interfacial structure of silica sols, John D.F. Ramsay et al; synthesis and characterization of colloidal model particles made from organoalkoxysilanes, A. van Blaaderen and A. Vrij; synthesis of nanometer-sized silica by controlled hydrolysis in reverse micellar systems, F.J. Arriagada and K. Osseo-Asare; formation of silica gels composed of micrometer-sized particles by the sol-gel method, Hiromitsu Kozuka and Sumio Sakka. Part 2 Stability of sols: stability of aqueous silica sols, Thomas W. Healy. Part 3 Surface chemistry of silica: the surface structure of amorphous and crystalline porous silicas - status and prospects, K.K. Unger; infrared study of chemical and H-D exchange probes for silica surfaces, B.A. Morrow and A.J. McFarlan; Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectroscopic study of silica surfaces, A. Burnear et al; surveying the silica gel surface with excited states, R. Krasnansky and J.K. Thomas; surface chemistry and surface energy of silicas, Alain M. Vidal and Eugene Papirer; variable-temperature diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic studies of amine desorption from a siliceous surface, Dondald E. Leyden and Kristina G. Proctor; multinuclear NMR spectroscopy studies of silica surfaces, Gary E. Maciel et al. Part 4 Particle size and characterization techniques: new separation methods for characterizing the size of silica sols, J.J. Kirkland; characterization of colloidal and particulate silica by field-flow fractionation, J. Calvin Giddings et al; interpretation of the differences between the pore size distributions of silica measured by mercury intrusion and nitrogen adsorption, A.R. Minihan et al. Part 5 Sol-gel technology. Part 6 Silica gels and powders. Part 7 Silica coatings. Part 8 Uses of colloidal silicas. Part 9 Research in Russia. (Part contents)
