Surface and Colloid Science
Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science Series, Vol. 116

Leading Nordic-Baltic scientists and their colleagues from other countries present recent research on a broad range of topics in surface and colloid science: adhesion, adsorption processes, characterization of solid/liquid and solid/polymer interfaces, chemical and particle depositions, colloid stability, emulsification and encapsulation, interfacial reactions, new surfactants, polymer-surfactant interactions, self-assembly processes, and functionalized surfaces for bio- and chemosensors. The papers were presented at the 1st Nordic-Baltic Meeting on Surface and Colloid Science, which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on August 21-25, 1999, as a continuation of the traditional Scandinavian Symposium on Surface Chemistry.

Self-Assembly of Lipids, Macromolecules and Surfactants.- Effects of the insecticides malathion and deltamethrin on the phase behaviour of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine multilamellar lipid bilayers.- On the swelling of monoolein liquid-crystalline aqueous phases in the presence of distearoylphosphatidylglycerol.- Entrapment of glucose oxidase into the cubic Q230 and Q224 phases of aqueous monoolein.- DNA-surfactant complexes in a water/alcohol mixture.- Environmentally benign nonionic surfactant systems for use in highly alkaline media.- Vesicle-to-micelle transition in dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide and dioctadecyldimethylammonium chloride dispersions induced by octaethylene glycol n-dodecyl monoether. An isothermal titration calorimetry study.- Structure and dynamics of polymer-like reverse micelles.- Gelation of steroid-bearing dextrans by surfactants.- Disperse Systems.- Sorption and catalytic properties of Latvian clay powders.- Deposition of wood resin emulsion droplets on ceramic oxides.- Effect of reaction variables on the formation of silica particles by hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate using sodium hydroxide as a basic catalyst.- Interfacial Processes.- Interfacial interaction between ethyl(hydroxyethyl) cellulose and sodium dodecyl sulphate.- Comparison of model surfaces for cellulose interactions: elevated pH.- Interactions between surfaces coated with cationic hydrophobically modified polyelectrolyte in the presence and the absence of oppositely charged surfactant.- Transitional behaviour of amphiphiles at the air/water interface under equilibrium and dynamic conditions.- Adsorption from soybean phosphatidylcholine/N-dodecyl ?-d-maltoside dispersions at liquid/solid and liquid/air interfaces.- Ideal (Langmuir-type surface and electric properties of tert- isopropylphosphine oxide at the air/water interface.- Dynamic wetting and dewetting by aqueous solutions containing amphiphilic compounds.- Effects of motion in n-hexanol solution on the lifetime of bubbles at the solution surface.- Chemical deposition of copper sulfide films in the surface of polyethylene by the use of higher polythionic acids.- Chemical Deposition of Copper Selenide Films in the Surface Layer of Polyamide by the use of Selenopolythionates.- Biosensor Applications.- The role of micelles in mediator-assisted peroxidase catalysis.- An oxygen-independent ethanol sensor based on quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase covalently bound to a functionalized polypyrrole film.- Millihertz waveband oscillations in an unstirred bacterial culture.