Trends in Colloid and Interface Science XIV, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science Series, Vol. 115

The 13th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS 99) was held in September 1999 in Dublin, Ireland. It brought together scientists from academic research and industry within the field of physics and chemistry of colloids and interfaces. The Conference focused on the following topics: - Surfactant colloids;
- Polymer colloids and solid particles;
- Food colloids;
- Soft matter interfaces;
- Biosystems;
- Rheology;
- Experimental methods in colloid and interface science.

Surfactant colloids.- Colloidal stability of a cationic latex covered with Triton X-100.- Dilution of 6-lauryl poly(oxyethylene ether) lamellar phases doped with magnetic nanoparticles.- Hexanol-induced sphere-to-flexible-coil transition in sugar surfactant solutions: a small-angle neutron and static light scattering study.- Hydration and dynamics of bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate microemulsions: effect of change in counterion.- Molecular dynamics and hybrid Monte Carlo simulations of a sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)-sulfosuccinate reverse micelle.- Studies of cationic and nonionic surfactant mixed microemulsions by small-angle neutron scattering and pulsed field gradient NMR.- Thermodynamics of micellization of cationic dimeric (gemini) surfactants.- Studies of the relation between phase behavior and emulsification methods with nanoemulsion formation.- Oil-induced phase transition from lamellar to reverse hexagonal liquid crystals in the Aerosol OT system.- High-frequency dielectric polarization mechanism in water-in-oil microemulsions below percolation.- Influence of the surfactant chain length and the molecular weight of poly(oxyethylene) on the stability of oil-in-water concentrated emulsions.- Polymer colloid and solid panicles.- Aggregation between oppositely charged colloidal particles.- Crystallizing polystyrene microgel colloids.- Determination of surface heterogeneity of talc materials.- Effect of the pore size on the adsorption of dimeric cationic surfactants from aqueous solution onto aluminosilicate adsorbents with a hexagonal pore arrangement.- Fluid-solid transitions in aqueous ferrofluids.- Heteroaggregation between charged hard and soft particles.- Neither Gaussian chains nor hard spheres - star polymers seen as ultrasoft colloids.- Phase behaviour of aqueous mixtures of sodium dodecyl sulfate with a weakly cationically charged acrylamide-based copolymer.- Substrate-induced deposition: molecular bridging between dispersed particles and gelatine-modified surfaces.- The emulsification of inorganic colloidal particles in an organic medium.- The interaction of water-soluble polymers with solid substrates. Implications on the kinetics of crystal growth.- Zeta potential study of a polystyrene latex with variable surface charge: influence on the electroviscous coefficient.- Study of mesoglobules in solutions of amphiphilic heteropolymers.- Systematic comparison of effect of structural and architectural changes to the network structure on the kinetics of collapse of N-isopropyloacrylamide gels.- Influence of composition on the interdiffusion of poly(vinyl acetate) latex particles.- Deswelling and depletion flocculation of microgel particles under external osmotic pressure.- The effect of polydispersity on colloidal phase transitions.- Controlled (seeded) growth of monodisperse sterically stabilised magnetic iron colloids.- Influence of reptations on conformations of a homopolymer in a Monte Carlo simulation.- Preparation of titania powders in a fluidized-bed reactor.- Food colloids.- Colloid forces in model food-type emulsions.- NMR studies of food emulsions: the dispersed-phase self-diffusion coefficient calculated by the least variance method.- A diffusing wave spectroscopy study of acidified milk gel under shear.- Adsorbed and free lipid bilayers at the solid-liquid interface viewed by specular and off-specular reflectivity.- Osmophoresis in concentrated suspensions of spherical vesicles.- Thermal fluctuations of small vesicles: observation by dynamic light scattering.- DNA complexes with cationic surfactant in mixed solvents: the influence of excess surfactant and salt.- Microemulsion-based organogels containing lipase: application in the synthesis of esters.- Membrane spin-probe studies in lecithin and bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate sodium salt water-in-oil microemulsions.- Does the structure of surfactant complexes on the DNA surface depend on the nucleotide sequence?.- Does the structure of surfactant complexes on the DNA surface depend on the nucleotide sequence?.- Forces between carboxyl and amide groups measured by atomic force microscopy.- Forces between carboxyl and amide groups measured by atomic force microscopy.- Adsorption of fluoro surfactants at air-water and water-carbon dioxide interfaces.- Adsorption of fluoro surfactants at air-water and water-carbon dioxide interfaces.- Adsorption of n-alkyl polyoxyethylene glycol ethers at liquid-vapour and liquid-liquid interfaces.- Adsorption of n-alkyl polyoxyethylene glycol ethers at liquid-vapour and liquid-liquid interfaces.- The influence of molecular exchanges on surface dilational properties of surfactant solutions.- The influence of molecular exchanges on surface dilational properties of surfactant solutions.- Molecular recognition of a dissolved carboxylate by amidinium monolayers at the air-water interface.- Molecular recognition of a dissolved carboxylate by amidinium monolayers at the air-water interface.- Formation of rigid nanodiscs: edge formation and molecular separation.- Formation of rigid nanodiscs: edge formation and molecular separation.- Chemically grafted field-effect transistors for the recognition of ionic species in aqueous solutions.- Chemically grafted field-effect transistors for the recognition of ionic species in aqueous solutions.- Detection of waves at an interface by way of an optical fibre.- Detection of waves at an interface by way of an optical fibre.- Effects of experimental errors in dynamic light scattering data on the results from regularized inversions.- Effects of experimental errors in dynamic light scattering data on the results from regularized inversions.- Energy calculations related to aliphatic chain-packing modes.- Energy calculations related to aliphatic chain-packing modes.- Influence of non-ionic adsorbing substances on the anomalous Kerr effect of hectorite dispersions.- Influence of non-ionic adsorbing substances on the anomalous Kerr effect of hectorite dispersions.- Structure, dynamics and interactions in concentrated colloidal suspensions and gels.- Structure, dynamics and interactions in concentrated colloidal suspensions and gels.- Light scattering studies of the long time dynamics of foam.- Light scattering studies of the long time dynamics of foam.- Temperature Dependence of the Ultrasonic Parameters of Bovine Muscle: Effects of Muscle Anisotropy.- Temperature Dependence of the Ultrasonic Parameters of Bovine Muscle: Effects of Muscle Anisotropy.- Ultrasonic High-Resolution Longitudinal and Shear Wave Measurements in Food Colloids: Monitoring of Gelation Processes and Detection of Pathogens.- Ultrasonic High-Resolution Longitudinal and Shear Wave Measurements in Food Colloids: Monitoring of Gelation Processes and Detection of Pathogens.- In Situ Study of Soft Matter with Atomic Force Microscopy and Light Scattering.- In Situ Study of Soft Matter with Atomic Force Microscopy and Light Scattering.- Rheology.- Assessment of Shear-Induced Structures by Real Space and Fourier Microscopy.- Vitrification in restricted geometry: dry films of colloidal particles.- Rheological studies of water-in-oil-in-water double emulsions.- Temperature dependence and the effects of heat treatment on the rheological properties of various butters.- New in colloid and surfactant sciences.- Acoustic spectroscopy of aerogel precursors.- Direct numerical simulation of the dynamic behaviour of a system with a surfactant droplet under the free water surface: theoretical consideration of the auto-oscillation of surface tension.- Electrostatic and chemical interactions of ions in electrolytes and in ionic point- charge double layers. II.- Macroscopic phase separation in a polyelectrolyte gel interacting with oppositely charged surfactant: correlation between anomalous deswelling and microstructure.- Micelles as model systems for equilibrium polyelectrolytes: a light and neutron scattering study.- Temperature-induced flocculation of colloidal particles above the nematic-isotropic phase transition.- Preparation and characterization of size monodisperse TiO2 nanocrystals and their self-assembled two-and three-dimensional arrays.- Effects of the short-range attraction in the kinetic glass transition studied by means of a micellar system.- Effective interaction between confined colloids: repulsion or attraction?.- Binary mixtures of sticky spheres using Percus-Yevick theory.