Formation and Dynamics of Self-Organized Structures in Surfactants and Polymer Solutions

The International Symposium on Colloid and Polymer Science was held at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in October 1996. The program covered both the fundamental aspects as well as technological applications of micelles, microemulsions, monolayers, and biocolloids. Special emphasis was placed on formation and dynamics of self-organized structures, including technical developments, applications, general theory, and results of investigations.

Preface.- Self-organization, phase transition and dynamics in amphiphilic systems.- Stable, metastable and unstable oil-in-water droplets.- The relationship between the interfacial curvatures and phase behavior in bicontinuous microemulsions — a SANS study.- Polyelectrolyte-surfactant interactions at interfaces.- Pulsed field gradient NMR studies of emulsions: droplet sizes and concentrated emulsions.- Conformational behavior of nonionic surfactants in the organized phases studied by vibrational spectroscopy.- Phase behavior of polyoxyethylene oleyl ether in water.- Fibril-vesicle transition and their structures — investigation by microscopy and small-angle scattering.- Structure and dynamics of networks formed in concentrated solutions of nonionic surfactants.- Micellar growth in dilute solutions of cesium perfluorooctanoate studied by small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering.- Fluctuations of cubic network observed in non-ionic surfactant system.- Effects of temperature and chain length on the properties of long chain polyoxyethylene dodecyl ethers in aqueous solution.- Microemulsions under steady shear flow.- Interparticle interaction in aerosol-OT microemulsion system studied by dynamic light scattering and viscosity.- Effects of hydrogen bonding on the surface energy of ionic-neutral dodecyldimethylamine oxide micelles.- Pressure-induced phase transition from disordered microemulsion to lamellar structure in a water/AOT/n-decane system.- Structural changes and interaction parameters in amphiphilic system C12E5/water/n-octane.- Structure functions and interfacial mean curvatures in a ternary amphiphilic system C12E5/water/n-octane.- Small angle neutron scattering studies of critical phenomena in a three-component microemulsion.- Aggregation dynamics of microhydrogels dispersed in iso-octane.- Dynamical aspects of self-organized (macro) molecular systems investigated by neutron spin-echo spectroscopy.- Sponge-like structures and their Gaussian curvatures in polymer mixtures and microemulsions.- Formation of micelles and vesicles in copolymer-homopolymer mixtures.- Computer simulation of ordering processes in block copolymers.- Interaction between hydroxypropylcellulose and surfactant and its effect on dispersion stability of kaolinite suspension in an aqueous phase.- Analysis by SAXS and cryo-TEM on polymerization with a surfactant.- Molecular orientation and structure in ultrathin films of amphiphilic microgel copolymer with the branching of octadecyl groups studied by infrared spectroscopy.- Formation of multicontinuous structures in block copolymer melts.- Viscoelastic effects and shear-induced phase separation in polymer solutions.- Phase formation and dynamics of associating polymers.- Viscoelastic phase separation in complex fluids.- A numerical study of viscoelastic phase separation in polymer solutions.- Phase separations in binary mixtures of a flexible polymer and a liquid crystal.- Rheological properties of silica suspensions in the presence of polymer.- Dynamics of associating polymers in solution: Dynamic light scattering and dynamic viscoelasticity of poly(vinyl alcohol) in aqueous borax solution.- Calf pregastric lipase catalyzed hydrolysis of short and medium chain-length monoacid triglycerides: Temperature, pH and lipid concentration effects.- Important role of loops in the transport activity of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier.- DNA-surfactant complexes in organic media.- Folding transition in single long duplex DNA chain.- Cooperation between salt induced globule-coil transition in single duplex DNA complexed with cationic surfactant and sphere-rod transition of surfactant micelles.- An overshoot-hump in a ?-A curve and the cooperative aggregation among dinitrophenyl moieties in phospholipids at an air/water interface.- Formation of protein- and peptidemembrane assemblies and membrane fusion.- Small-angle neutron scattering study on short-chain phosphatidylcholine micelle in the presence of sorbitol.- Molecular model for the lecithin self-organization into polymer-like micelles.- Neutron scattering study of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bis(phosphate) aqueous dispersion.- Structural study of protein-ganglioside interaction.- Monte Carlo study of shape changes of liposomes at finite temperature.- Functional nano-structure of aggregates self-organized on the liquid/solid interface-enzymatic polymerization of ADP.- Molecular architecture of steroidal acids and their derivatives: selective acquisition of polymorphic inclusion crystal of cholic acid.- Light scattering studies of soluble complexes between hyaluronate and bovine serum albumin.- Effects of gelation of alginate around chymotrypsin on reactivities.- Nanorheology of thin liquid crystal film studied by shear force resonance method.- Direct measurements of interaction forces between amine-modified glass surfaces using atomic forces microscope.- Order-disorder transition in aqueous dispersions of ionic colloidal silica particles.- Shape deformation dynamics induced by phase separation on two component membranes.- Polymerized membranes in poor solvent.- Formation and property of HCO-10 vesicles new method to prepare HCO-10 vesicles with high entrapment efficiency.- Annihilation dynamics of two-dimensional magnetic vortex systems.