Trends in Colloid and Interface Science VI

- Particle and Lamella Interaction in Fluid Environments; - Colloidal Particles: Size and Mobility; - Rheology and Stability; - Colloidal Suspensions under Stress; - Surface Properties and Adsorption; - Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface; - Molecular and Collective Dynamic Properties; - Phase Transitions and Phase Diagrams are the broad range of topics presented in this volume. The volume comprises the proceedings of the combined 35th meeting of the Deutsche Kolloidgesellschaft and the 5th annual meeting of the European Colloid and Interface Society (Mainz, FRG) and it capsulizes the current colloid research being conducted in Europe.

Modeling of solvation interactions in non-polar dispersions of colloidal particles using the liquid state theory of adhesive hard sphere mixtures.- Monte carlo investigations of the order-disorder transition in colloidal-sphere suspensions.- The Laplace equation and Winsor microemulsions.- Diffusion and interaction in gels and solutions.- On mutual interactions in polycomponent surfactant systems.- Osmotic pressure of highly charged swollen bilayers.- Influence of proteins on the percolation phenomenon in AOT reverse micelles: Structural studies by SAXS.- The use of methyl orange for the characterization of micelles in aqueous nonionic surfactant solutions.- Structural order of Tobacco-Mosaic-Virus in aqueous solutions determined by static and dynamic light scattering.- A phase electric birefringence study of interdroplet attractions in water-in-oil microemulsions.- Structure and properties of zwitterionic polysoaps: functionalization by redox-switchable moieties.- Fractal aggregation of polystyrene spheres in the crossover region between DLCA and RLCA.- Polymerization in microemulsion-size and surface control of ultrafine latex particles.- Interconnection of microemulsion droplets with block-copolymers.- Direct measurements by light scattering of the self diffusion in dense macromolecular solutions.- Micro-phase separation in cross-linked gels: Depolarized light-scattering results.- Evidence by light scattering of long-range structures connected with the percolation transition in water-decane-AOT microemulsions.- Solubilization of a water-insoluble dye: A light-scattering study.- Interdiffusion in polymer mixtures.- Collective diffusion in colloidal suspensions: A generalized Langevin equation approach.- Influence of the preparation mode on the size of CdS particles synthesised “in situ” in reverse micelles.- Synthesis of copper metallic particles using functionalized surfactants in w/o and o/w microemulsions.- Photochemical studies of nanosized CdS particles synthesized in micellar media.- Stability and rheological properties of gel emulsions.- Coalescence lifetimes of oil and water drops at the planar oil-water interface and their relation to emulsion phase inversion.- Interactions between hydrophobically modified polymers and surfactants.- Aggregational behavior of polymeric micelles of methacrylate functionalized quaternary ammonium salts.- Resonant phenomena in colloidal crystals.- Preparation of giant vesicles by external AC electric fields. Kinetics and applications.- Ordering phenomena in gyrotropic electrolytes.- Structuration and elasticity of electrorheological fluids.- Electrophoretic mobility of aqueous colloidal suspensions in the gas and liquid-like phases.- Reflectometry study of interbubble gas transfer in liquid foams.- Perfluoroalkyl bilayer membranes prepared from saturated amphiphiles with fluorocarbon chains.- Viscosity-percolation behavior of waterless microemulsions: a curious temperature effect.- Fine-Tuning of the film thickness of ultrathin multilayer films composed of consecutively alternating layers of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes.- Photoreactions in Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn multilayer assemblies of liquid crystalline azo-dy side-chain polymers.- The surface dehydroxylation and rehydroxylation of controlled porosity glasses.- Changes in barite surface free energy due to its surface precoverage with tetradecyalmine chloride (TDACl) or sodium dodecylsulphate (DDSO4Na).- Microcalorimetric study of cetylpyridinium-chloride adsorption onto different oxides.- Enhancing effects during the interaction of cationic surfactants and organic pollutants with clay minerals.- Interfacial activity of acidic organophosphorus extractants and interfacial mechanism of metal extraction.- Adsorption studies on pesticide/cationic surfactant/bentonite systems.- Modulation of reaction rate at inhomogeneous charged interfaces by electrohydrodynamic effects.- Phase transitions and domain structures in ester and acid monolayers.- Lateral diffusion of macromolecules in monolayers at the air/water interface.- Two-dimensional pattern formation in Langmuir monolayers.- Electronic speckle pattern interferometry used to characterize monolayer films.- Photo-induced electron transfer in monolayers: effect of acceptor location at the interface.- Dye/dihexadecylphosphate monolayers: a spectroscopic and thermodynamic study.- Mixed monolyers: Support acidity, two-dimensional phases and compatibility.- Aggregation of cyanine dyes in Langmuir-Blodgett films.- Spreading isotherms and electron spain resonance of nitronylnitroxide mono- and multilayers.- Adsorption properties of soluble surface active stilbazium dyes at the air-water interface.- Incorporation of membrane proteins into lipid surface monolayers: Characterization by fluorescence and electron microscopies.- Interfacial properties of surfactant mixtures with alkyl polyglycosides.- Dynamical properties of lecithin-based microemulsions.- Local hydration effects in reversed micellar aggregates.- Similarities of aqueous and nonaqueous microemulsions.- Influence of stigmastanyl phosphorylcholine on the size, mass, and shape of taurocholate/lecithin/cholesterol mixed micelles.- Polymorphism of phosphatidylcholines varied in the hydrophobic part.- A sphere to flexible coil transition in lecithin reverse micellar solutions.- Thermodynamic properties of water in reverse micelles.- Time-dependent heat capacity of aqueous solutions of biomolecules.- Is the AOT/water/oil system really simple? Conductivity measurements in ionic and nonionic microemulsions.- Effect of anionic surfactant structure on critical concentrations and compositions of sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate/polyoxyethylene octylphenol/tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide mixed micelles.- An infrared study of micelle formation in AOT-H2O-CCl4 solutions.- Effect of 1-alcohols on micelle formation and hydrophobic interactions.- Molecular theory of rod-shaped micelles.- Behavior and properties of lyotropic-nematic and lyotropic-cholesteric phases.- Bilayer thickness from lipid-chain dynamics: Influece of cholesterol and electric charges. A 2H-NMR approach.- Structural alteration of lymphocyte membrane induced by gangliosides. A conductometric study.- Dielectric dispersion in the ripple phase of DPL mixtures in water.- Structural change in AOT reverse micelles induced by changing the counterions.- Dis-interdigitation of phospholipid bilayers by low amounts of cholesterol.- X-Ray studies on the near-equilibrium pathways of the pretransition in DPPC multilayer liposomes.- Low-dose effects of melittin on phospholipid structure. Differences between diester and diether phospholipids.- Fractal dimensions and BET-surfaces in wet and dry portland cement paste.