This volume includes a number of selected papers of the international conference "Colloidal Aspects of Lipids", held in June 1997 at Lund, Sweden. In conjunction with the conference Professor Kare Larsson, well-known and respected as a leading scientist in this field of food technology during the recent decades, was honored.

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Conceptual locks and cubic phases.- Secondary nucleation in triglyceride crystallization.- Kinetics of formation of structures in a three-phase system water/lamellar liquid crystal/water-in-oil microemulsion after shear.- New biomaterials based upon biomembrane mimicry.- Polymers for bioadhesion, absorption control and tissue separation.- Interactions between layers of salivary acidic proline rich protein 1 (PRP 1) adsorbed on mica surfaces.- A structural model for the human skin barrier.- Lipase-surfactant interactions.- Newest understandings of molecular structures and interactions of unsaturated fats and fatty acids.- Conformation and packing of membrane lipids: Crystal structures of lysophosphatidylcholines.- Structural characteristics and redox activity of the cubic monoolein/ubiquinone-10/water phase.- New trends in double emulsions for controlled release.- Solvent-induced sponge (L 3) phases in the solvent-monoolein-water system.- Micelles and liquid crystals in aqueous diglycerol monodecanoate systems.- Microstructures in solution and ordered phases of surfactants. Self-diffusion in the AOT/octanol/water system.- Influence of a charged phospholipid on the release pattern of timolol maleate from cubic liquid crystalline phases.- Sphingomyelin a dietary component with structural and biological function.- Hexagonally perforated lamellae with uniform mean curvature.- Hexagonal mesophases: honeycomb, froth, mesh or sponge?.- On microstructural transitions of lamellar phase forming surfactants.- Adsorption of human carbonic anhydrase II onto silicon oxides surfaces: The effects of truncation in the N-terminal region.- New approaches to rapid spectroscopic evaluation of properties in pectic polymers.- A multivariate study of diffuse reflectance infrared profiles ofresin fractions from crude oils.- Detection of phase and structural changes in a 7-aminocoumarin monolayer by dynamic and optical methods.- Coordination in inorganics.- Coordination in inorganics.