ABSTRACT

Over the last decade, the biggest advances in physics, physical chemistry, and biochemistry have come from thinking smaller. This research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the elucidation of the momentum transfer phenomenon as well as the electron transfer phenomenon at well-characterized, developed, both rigid and deformable liquid-liquid interfaces. The considered scales are micro, nano, and atto, using various theoretical approaches. Micro scales may cover more or less classical chemical-engineering insight, while nano and atto scales focus on modern molecular and atomic engineering. This chapter presents a brief overview of the various possible classifications of finely dispersed systems based on scales, geometry, the origin of forces, and physical-chemical processes. At the end of this chapter, a new classification of finely dispersed systems based on entities will be presented [1].