UK Colloids 2011 - the first multi-day conference on the topic of colloid science held in the UK for many years, jointly organized by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI Colloid and Surface Science Group. The conference had over 250 delegates, from all across the world good representation from Japan, China, Australia, USA, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Georgia as well as a substantial number of UK based researchers. This Special Issue of Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science collects together a selection of 20 papers, mostly presented during the Conference. The papers included cover the wide variety of topics from fundamentals in colloid and interface science to industrial applications. The current Special Issue also reflects the international character of the Conference.

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 in electronic format via SpringerLink for all Colloid and Polymer Science subscribers with standing orders Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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From the Contents: Spreading and Evaporation of Surfactant Solution Droplets.- Novel membrane emulsification method of producing highly uniform silica particles using inexpensive silica sources.- Dynamic phenomena in complex (colloidal) plasmas.- Pretreatment of Used Cooking Oil for the Preparation of Biodiesel using Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Spironolactone-loaded liposomes produced using a membrane contactor method: An improvement of the ethanol injection technique.- The multiple emulsion entrapping active agent produced via one-step preparation method in the liquidliquid helical flow for drug release study and modeling.- Insights into catanionic vesicles thermal transition by NMR spectroscopy.