Horizons 2000 - aspects of colloid and interface science at the turn of the millenium

Honoring Milan Johann Schwuger on his 60th birthday.- Lipid monolayers to understand and control properties of fluid interfaces.- Preparation of three morphologically different states of a lamellar phase.- Solubilization of toluene in phospholipid vesicles studies by video-enhanced contrast microscopy.- On the origin of electrostatic interaction in foam films from ABA triblock copolymers.- Molecular interactions and the quantitative prediction of synergism in mixtures of surfactants.- Water solubilization by surfactant aggregates in organic solvents: Limitations of the multi-state water model.- Colloid science in oil and gas production and transportation.- Recovery of surfactant from micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration using a precipitation process.- An overview of surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation.- Physicochemical properties of ?-sulfonated fatty acid esters.- Vapor pressures of phenethyl alcohol and phenethyl acetate in aqueous solutions of sodium xylene sulfonate and polyvinylpyrrolidone.- Spontaneous emulsification of oil drops containing surfactants and medium-chain alcohols.- The influence of ethylene glycol on the phase behavior of aqueous microemulsions in quaternary systems.- Fundamentals of the development and applications of new emulsion types.- Electrical conductivity of aqueous polymer solutions.- Towards a quantitative description of ionization properties of linear and branched polyelectrolytes.- Polymer adsorption on a patchwise heterogeneous surface.- Adsorption of poly (diallyl-dimethyl-ammoniumchloride) (PDADMAC) and of copolymers of DADMAC with N-methyl-N-vinyl-acetamide (NMVA) on colloidal silica.- Contact angles and surface energetics.- Preparation and properties of uniform coated inorganic colloidal particles. 12. Tin and its compounds on hematite.- Binding reactions at the solid-liquid interface analyzed by the concept of kinetic and affinity spectra: Cd2+ in montmorillonites.- Surface modifications of soil minerals by amphiphilic substances (surfactants, synthetic and natural macromolecules).- Microcalorimetric studies of S/L interfacial layers: thermodynamic parameters of the adsorption of butanol-water on hydrophobized clay minerals.- The use of electrokinetic potential in the interpretation of adsorption phenomena. Adsorption of salicylic acid on titanium dioxide.- Electro-osmosis in electrophoretic light scattering experiments.- Adsorption of organic molecules on metal nanostructures: State of the art in SERS spectroscopy.- Multispot parallel on-line monitoring of interfacial binding reactions by surface plasmon microscopy.- Role of surfactants in water-borne coatings.- Some aspects of polymer colloids.- Production of nanoparticles: polymerization termination and molecular weights during radical-induced emulsifier-free emulsion polymerization (heterogeneous polymerization).- The synthesis of spherical rutile titanium dioxide particles and their interaction with polystyrene latex particles of opposite charge.