Surfactants in Solution

I. Plenary Lectures.- Droplet Size Distributions and Phase Equilibria with Ionic Microemulsions.- Micellar Rate Effects: What We Know and What We Think We Know.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Past, Present and Future.- From Planar BLMs to Biomembranes to Self-assembling Lipid Bilayers: Building Blocks of Future Biosensors and Molecular Devices.- II. Invited Presentations.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Model Surfactants and Micelles.- Molecular Modelling of Micellar Solutions.- Effects of Flow Fields on Self-Assembly in Micellized Surfactant Solutions.- Generalization of the Surfactant Concept: Micellization of Zwitterionic and Mesoionic Amphiphiles in Formamide and N-methylsydnone.- Aggregation Behavior of Mixed-Counterion Double-Chained Surfactants.- Solution Properties of Mixed Fluorocarbon and Hydrocarbon Surfactants and Their Solubilization Behavior.- Experimental Determination of the Time of Formation of Ganglioside Mixed Micelles.- Amphiphilic Association Structures of the Stratum Corneum.- On the Phase Behaviour of Lipid X, a Precursor of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides.- Stability and Phase Behavior of Mixed Surfactant Vesicles.- Effect of Thermal and Mixing History on the Rheological Properties of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Dispersions.- On Polymer/Surfactant Interaction.- Polyelectrolyte-Ionic Surfactant Systems: Phase Behavior and Interactions.- NMR Studies of Interactions Between Neutral Polymers and Anionic Surfactants in Aqueous Solution.- Standard Free Energy of Adsorption at Liquid Interfaces.- Thermodynamic Studies of Adsorption and Mi cellization of Alky1 Xylene Sulfonates.- Polarized Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) FT-IR Spectra of Oriented Alkanoates.- Dynamic Surface Tension of Aqueous Surfactant Solutions. IV. Relationship to Foaming.- Quantitative Models of Rate Effects of Aqueous Micelles.- Photodegradation of Surfactants Catalyzed by a Semiconductor for Protection of Environment.- Ligand Surfactants: Aggregation, Cations Binding and Transport, and Catalytic Properties.- Preparation of Monodisperse Colloidal Metal/Metal Oxide Particles from Microemulsions: New Developments.- Some Features of Three-Phase Emulsions.- Kinetic Stability of Food Emulsions.- Flocculation of Emulsions by Free Surfactant. II. Purified Systems.- Egg Yolk Phospholipids as an Emulsifier for Perfluorooctyl Bromide/Saline Dispersions.- Ultrapurification of Fine Powders by Floc Flotation.- Multi-Stepwise Drainage and Viscosity of Macroscopic Films Formed From Latex Suspensions.- Directional Characteristics of Marginal Regeneration.- Dynamic Behavior in Systems Containing Nonionic Surfactants and Polar Oils and its Relationship to Detergency.- Droplet Size and Dynamics in Water-in-Oil Microemulsion. Correlations Between Results from Different Methods..- Phase Behavior of Novel Nonionic Surfactants - The Mechanism of "Clouding".- Effect of Elastic Bending Energy on Emulsification Failure in AOT Microemulsion.- Sulfonate Adsorption on Clay-Influence of the Ionic Environment.- Adhesion and Fusion of Amphiphilic Surfaces: Role of Hydrophobic, Hydration and Steric Forces.- Aggregation and Phase Equilibria of Surfactants in Polar, Nonaqueous Solvents.- Spinodal Decomposition as a Model for Bicontinuous Microemulsions.- III. Contributed Oral and Poster Presentations.- Section 1. Surfactant Association: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments.- Section 2. Surfactant Liquid Crystals: Phase Diagrams and Phase Behavior.- Section 3. Polymeric and Polymerizable Surfactants.- Section 4. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Micellization,including Solubilization.- Section 5. Reactions in Micelles, Monolayers, and Liquid Crystals.- Section 6. Microemulsions: Phase Diagrams, Structure and Applications (including Reactions in Microemulsions).- Section 7. Adsorption of Surfactants, Insoluble Monolayers, and L-B Films.- Section 8. Industrial Applications of Surfactants, and Surfactants in Emerging Technologies.- Section 9. Surfactants in Mineral Processing..- Section 10. Surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery.- Section 11. Surfactants in Food, Pharmaceutical, and Cosmetic Industries.- Section 12. Biological Amphiphile Systems, and Relevance of Surfactants in the Biomedical Arena, Health, and the Human Body.