Trends in Colloid and Interface Science XIV

The 13th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS 99) was held in September 1999 in Dublin, Ireland. It brought together scientists from academic research and industry within the field of physics and chemistry of colloids and interfaces. The Conference focused on the following topics: - Surfactant colloids;

• Polymer colloids and solid particles;
• Food colloids;
• Soft matter interfaces;
• Biosystems;
• Rheology;
• Experimental methods in colloid and interface science.

Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science is a supplement to the journal "Colloid and Polymer Science" publishing topic-related volumes. Subscribers to Colloid and Polymer Science are entitled to a 20 % discount. Since 1999 Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science is also available free of charge in electronic format via Springer. Link for all Colloid and Polymer Science subscribers with standing orders at http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/2882/index.htm

Inhalt
Surfactant colloids.- Polymer colloid and solid panicles.- Food colloids.- Does the structure of surfactant complexes on the DNA surface depend on the nucleotide sequence?.- Forces between carboxyl and amide groups measured by atomic force microscopy.- Adsorption of fluoro surfactants at air-water and water-carbon dioxide interfaces.- Adsorption of n-alkyl polyoxyethylene glycol ethers at liquid-vapour and liquid-liquid interfaces.- The influence of molecular exchanges on surface dilational properties of surfactant solutions.- Molecular recognition of a dissolved carboxylate by amidinium monolayers at the air-water interface.- Formation of rigid nanodiscs: edge formation and molecular separation.- Chemically grafted field-effect transistors for the recognition of ionic species in aqueous solutions.- Detection of waves at an interface by way of an optical fibre.- Effects of experimental errors in dynamic light scattering data on the results from regularized inversions.- Energy calculations related to aliphatic chain-packing modes.- Influence of non-ionic adsorbing substances on the anomalous Kerr effect of hectorite dispersions.- Structure, dynamics and interactions in concentrated colloidal suspensions and gels.- Light scattering studies of the long time dynamics of foam.- Temperature Dependence of the Ultrasonic Parameters of Bovine Muscle: Effects of Muscle Anisotropy.- Ultrasonic High-Resolution Longitudinal and Shear Wave Measurements in Food Colloids: Monitoring of Gelation Processes and Detection of Pathogens.- In Situ Study of Soft Matter with Atomic Force Microscopy and Light Scattering.- Rheology.- New in colloid and surfactant sciences.