The textbook outlines the main sections of modern colloidal chemistry - the science of the dispersed state of matter: the doctrine of surface phenomena, the properties of adsorption layers, the preparation and properties of dispersed systems, their stability and stabilization, structure formation in dispersed systems, their theoretical and experimental foundations are given and principles of practical application. Fundamental problems such as the mechanisms of action of surfactants, lyophilicity and spontaneous dispersion, and physicochemical mechanics are presented.

Complies with the Federal State Educational Standard of Third Generation Higher Professional Education.

For students universities and chemical-technological universities.

Recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation as a textbook for students of higher educational institutions studying in the specialty "Chemistry" and the direction "Chemistry".

Literature on thermodynamics , physical and colloid chemistry and related issues