Trends in Colloid and Interface Science X, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 Coll. Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science, Vol. 100

This volume contains the proceedings of the IXth annual meeting of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) which took place in Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995. The contributions cover a broad range of fields in modern colloid science, as well as their technical, experimental and theoretical aspects. Specific emphasis is given to:
- Surfactant aggregates, micelles, vesicles and liquid crystals;
- Colloidal particles: interaction, structure and aggregation;
- Emulsions and concentrated systems;
- Microemulsions;
- Mixed colloidal systems; - Rheology;
- Biocolloids; - Membranes, films and interfaces.

Formation and structure of reverse vesicles.- Phase diagram of the 1-dodecyl pyridinium bromide-dodecane-water surfactant system.- Characterization of structural transitions in the SLS/n-alcohol/water system.- Surfactant self-diffusion and networks of wormlike micelles in concentrated solutions of nonionic surfactants.- Thermodynamic theory and experimental studies on mixed short-chain lecithin micelles.- Phase behavior in sodium cholate/calcium chloride mixtures.- The effect of sub-solubilizing concentrations of sodium deoxycholate on the order of acyl chains in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Study of the fluorescence anistropy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH).- Multifractality of lyotropic liquid crystal formation.- Surfactant aggregation and response of ion-selective electrode.- 3-Deoxy-s-alkyl-d-glucose derivative micelle formation, CMC and thermodynamics.- Computer simulation studies of surfactant systems.- Equation of state of a colloidal crystal: An USAXS and osmotic pressure study.- Interaction behaviour in a binary mixture of polymer particles.- Electric light scattering from polytetrafluorethylene suspensions. II. Influence of dialysis.- Two photon rayleigh scattering in micellar and microemulsion systems.- Dynamic scaling in colloidal fractal aggregation: Influence of particle surface charge density.- Effects of shear flow on a critical colloidal dispersion: a light scattering study.- Synthesis and characterization of latex particles with acetal functionality.- Morphology of heterogeneous latex particles investigated by atomic force microscopy.- Dynamic properties of magnetic colloidal particles: Theory and experiments.- Two-dimensional concentration domain patterns in magnetic suspensions: Energetical and kinetic approach.- Adsorption-desorption process of Sodium Diclofenac in Poly-alkylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles.- Determination of the complex refractive index of bulk tellurium and its use in particle size determination.- Structure of adsorbed polymer layers: Loops and tails.- Probing slow fluctuations in nonergodic systems: Interleaved sampling technique.- The effect of the internal architecture of polymer micronetwork colloids on the dynamics in highly concentrated dispersions.- Transport properties of W/O highly concentrated emulsions (gel-emulsions).- Quantifying the concept of physico-chemical formulation in surfactant-oil-water systems — State of the art.- Interbubble gas transfer in persistent foams resulting from surfactant mixtures.- Equilibrium states and structure factor of concentrated colloidal dispersions in optimized random phase approximation.- Development of core-shell colloids to study self-diffusion in highly concentrated dispersions.- Concentrated graphite suspensions in aqueous polymer solutions.- Experimental investigation of the structure of nonionic microemulsions and their relation to the bending elasticity of the amphiphilic film.- Effects of salinity on the electrical conductivity of a water-in-oil microemulsion.- Dielectric relaxation of microemulsions.- Percolation in fluorinated microemulsions: A dielectric study.- Adhesive spheres mixture model of water-in-oil microemulsions.- Preparation of Gd2CuO4 via sol-gel in microemulsions.- Fluorescence studies of the drug Piroxicam in reverse micelles of AOT and microemulsions of Triton X-100.- Depletion interaction and phase separation in mixtures of colloidal particles and nonionic micelles.- The effect of monovalent and divalent cations on sterically stabilized phospholipid vesicles (liposomes).- Adsorption of gluconic and citricacids on maghemite particles in aqueous medium.- Influence of heat treatment on the surface properties of functionalized polymer colloids.- Kinetics of crystal growth of ?-PbF2 and micellization of non-ionic surfactant Triton X-100 at steady-state condition.- Selective solubilization of the stratum corneum components using surfactants.- Influence of surfactant-gelatin interaction on microcapsule characteristics.- Microscopic mechanisms of non-linear rheology of crystalline colloidal dispersionss.- Linear viscoelasticity of O/W sucrose-palmitate emulsions.- Structural models to describe thixotropic behavior.- The effect of surface friction on the rheology of hard-sphere colloids.- Rheological properties of concentrated lateritic suspensions.- Surface charge characterization and protein adsorption at biomaterials surfaces.- Cyclodextrins as molecular tools to investigate the surface properties of potato 5-lipoxygenase.- Microemulsions as reaction medium for a substitution reaction.- Lecithin W/O microemulsions as a host for trypsin. Enzyme activity and luminescence decay studies.- Synthesis and properties of bioactive surfactants containing ?-lactam ring.- Two alternatives: Lipase and/or microcapsule engineering to improve the activity and stability of Pseudomonas sp. and Candida rugosa lipases in anionic micelles.- A study of the interaction of adrenocorticotropin-(1–24)-tetracosapeptide with BLM and liposomes.- Impact of the surface charge of magnetoproteoliposomes on the enzymatic oxidation of cytochrome c.- The direct measurement of the interfacial composition of surfactant/polymer mixed layers at the air-water interface using neutron reflection.- Dynamic of soluble adsorption layer studied by a maximum bubble pressure method in the µs and ms range of time.-Skin formation on liquid surfaces under non-equilibrium conditions.- Dynamic surface properties of aqueous solutions.- Electric potential differences across lipid mono- and bilayers.- Evidence of entropic contribution to “hydration” forces between membranes.- Pore kinetics of mastoparan petpides in large unilamellar lipid vesicles.- Head-group variations and monolayer structures of diol derivatives.- Macromolecules in ordered media III. A fluorescence study on the association of poly-2-vinylpyridine with a phospholipid bilayer.- Lysozyme separation by colloidal gas aphrons.