Trends in Colloid and Interface Science XIII

This volume includes a number of selected papers of the 12th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, held in September 1998 in Dubrovnik and Cavtat, Croatia. The topics included are: Amphiphiles, Monolayers and Micelles, Solutions and Suspensions, Emulsions and Microemulsions, Polymers, Interfaces, and Experimental techniques. TOC:Amphiphiles, Monolayers and Micelles.- Solutions and Suspensions.- Emulsions and Microemulsions.- Polymers.- Interfaces.- Experimental techniques.

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Size distribution in emulsions.- Structural investigation on lecithin/cyclohexane solutions.- Spectroscopic study of polynucleotides in cationic W/O microemulsion.- On the mechanism of solvation forces.- Effect of short-range attractive interactions on the low-frequency electrical conductivity of water -in-oil microemulsions.- Measurements of interfacial curvatures and evidence for morphological transition in semifluorinated non-ismetric microemulsions.- A calorimetric study of thermal hysteresis effects in ganglioside micelles.- Effect of polyoxybutilene chain length on the properties of alkyl sodium sulfates in aqueous solution.- Electrorheological effects in lecithin organogels with water and glycerol.- Langmuir monolayers formed by a novel group of aromatic amphiphiles.- Contact angles and the transition zone between a sessile drop and a wetting film studies by Monte Carlo simulation.- Phase equilibria of polysdispersed colloids.- Formation of trichlorofluoromethane hydrate in W/O emulsions studies by differential scanning calorimetry.- Physico-chemical properties of dense water/copper(II)Bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate/CCl4 microemulsions.- Mesomorphic solid-structures of sulfated extra cellular polysaccharide-CnTAB compounds.- Growth of silver iodide particles investigated by light scattering.- Dissolution of anionic surfactants. Effect of cations on the change of heat capacity.- Dynamics of vesicles from symmetrical double chain alkylbenzenesulphonates.- Micellization dynamics of PEO-PPO-PEO block copolymers measured by stopped flow.- Binding of cadmium at the goethite aqueous interface.- SAXS structural investigations on Starburst dendrimers in solution.- Silica stabilized multiple emulsions.- Associating polymer - surfactant systems.- A study of the behaviour of mixed monolayers of amphotericin B and dipalmitoyl phosphatidic acid vased on hysteresis experiments.- Electrostatic and chemical interactions of ions and electrolyted and in ionic point charge double layers.- Surfactant-DNA complexes in low ionic strength dilute solutions.- Application of surfactants in emulsifying metalworking fluids.- Liquid crystalline aqueous suspensions of V2O5 ribons: from repulsive sols to attractive gels.- Characterization of microemulsions based on polymeric surfactant.- Interfacial change in mixed oxide aqueous suspensions.- A study of the stability of amphotericin B monolayers.- Entropic interactions in mixtures of colloids and nonionic polymers.- Pressure-area isotherms. The behaviour of cyclosporin/pyrene-labelled phospholipid systems.- Novel glycol silicate and its interaction with surfactant for the synthesis of mesoporous silicate.- Polyorgano siloxane nanoparticles as optical tracers.- Characterization by fluorescence energy transfer of the core of polyisoprene-poly(methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer micelle.- Surface properties of stigmastanyl phosphorylcholine monolayers.- Long range orientational order of branched chain phospholipid monolayers.- Ultrasonicx analysis, of heat induced coagulation in calcium fortified milk.- Potentiometric and DLS investigation of the precipitation of lanthanum fluoride.- Bilayer formation in water from new urea-based double-chain dimethylammonium amphiphile containing perfluorinated moities.- Adsorption of gelatin in combination with sodium dodecyl sulphate or hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide to a polystyrene/water interface.- Experimental observation of single-file diffusion of Brownian particles.- Lipase immobilization on microemulsion-based polymer gels.- Interfacial tensions in heptane-aqueous NaCl systems containing Aerosol OT and a second single-chain ionic surfactant.