Trends in Colloid and Interface Science XV (Hardcover)

Molecular lnteractions in Thin Films.- Water/oil/water thin films: construction and applications.- Langmuir monolayers from substituted aromatic carboxylic acids.- Metastable water films on hydrophobic silica surfaces.- Low-temperature synthesis of spinels MAl204 (M=Mg, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) prepared by a sol-gel method.- Properties of insoluble mixed monolayers of lipids at the water/air interface.- Enhancement of weak radiative transitions of Eu3+ in thin surfactant films in the presence of poly(methyl methacrylate).- Phase transition in monolayers induced by adsorbed amphiphiles.- Molecular recognition under formation of amphiphilic amidinium carboxylates at the air-water interface.- Equilibrium and dynamics of dissolved homologue penetration into an N-tetradecyl-?-hydroxybutyric acid amide monolayer forming crystalline condensed phases.- Polymer-Surfadant Interactions.- Using multilamellar vesicles to incorporate glucose oxidase into a polypyrrole film.- Association of hydrophobically modified poly(sodium acrylate) with cationic copolymers based on N-isopropylacrylamide.- Effect of mixing lipophilic and hydrophilic silicone surfactant systems.- Surprising effects of polymer-surfactant solutions on inorganic crystallization processes.- Structure and Dynamics at Interfaces.- Oil-in-water microemulsions to solubilize acrylic copolymers: application in cultural heritage conservation.- Stable dispersions of Ca(0H)2 in aliphatic alcohols: properties and application in cultural heritage conservation.- Structure and dynamics of two-dimensional colloidal systems in circular cavities.- Substrate-induced phase transitions in two-dimensional colloidal systems.- Crystal nucleation versus vitrification in charged colloidal suspensions.- The kinetics of irreversible aggregation processes.- Crystal growth kinetics in deionised two-component colloidal suspensions.- Titanium dioxide nanoparticle films made by using poly(ethylene glycol) oligomers as templates.- Investigations of adsorption and porosity properties of pure and modified zeolites by means of thermal analysis and sorptometry techniques.- Relation between the IR spectrum of water and decarboxylation kinetics in microemulsions.- Interactions of colloidal grafted silica with transition-metal cations.- Adsorption of poly(isobutenylsuccinimide) dispersants at a solid-hydrocarbon interface.- A single-cluster light scattering study of fast-aggregating protein-coated polymer colloids.- Kinetics of growth of submicrometer crystalline lanthanum fluoride particles using the pF-stat method.- Colloidal interaction at the air-liquid interface: experimental results.- Biocolloids.- Hydrophobically modified calcium-induced ?-carrageenan gels.- Ultrasonic studies of the development of flocculation in mixed sodium caseinate and Tween 20 emulsions.- Aggregation and gel formation in biopolymer solutions.- Temperature dependence of salt-induced aggregation in poly(ethylene oxide)-coated latex particle suspensions.- New biosurfactants containing ?-lactam and triazole rings.- Colloids in Pharmaceutical and Biological Applcations.- Hydrophilic matrices as carriers in felodipine solid dispersion systems.- Surface modification for controlled cell growth on copolymers of N-isopropylacrylamide.- Elastically ineffective chain formation in networks at high initiator concentration.- Interactions between DNA and surfactants.- Liposome-DNA complex investigated by dielectric spectroscopy and circular dichroism.- Antimicrobial activity and biodegradability of N-alkylaldonamides.- Gelatin-modified surfaces in selected electronic components.- Electrophoretic mobility and swelling behaviour of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulphonic acid /poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles.- Formation and stability of nano-emulsions in mixed nonionic surfactant systems.- New Trends in Colloids and Interface Science Techniques.- Incipient growth of CdS films from weakly supersaturated