Surfactants and Macromolecules: Self-Assembly at Interfaces and in Bulk

Controlled adsorption of polymers and surfactants in particulate separatioin processes.- Computer simulation of aggregation in adsorbed protein layers.- Surface-induced aggregation of ferritin at a liquid-solid interface.- Determination of the adsorption energy distribution function with the LOGA method.- Adsorption of some common surfactants and polymers on TiO2-pigments.- A calorimetric investigation of the adsorption of octylamine on titanium dioxide from aqueous solutions.- Influence of calcium and phosphate ions on the adsorption of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamides on TiO2 and CaCO3.- Retention & thermodynamics of homologous series in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.- Competitive adsorption of food macromolecules and surfactants at the oil-water interface.- Spreading of oil drops under a solvent vapor: influence of Marangoni effect.- The dynamics of ultrathin films.- Drainage of foam films in the presence of nonionic micelles.- The structure of surfaces of surfactant solutions above the critical micelle concentration.- Lipid phase transition in monolayers [polymorphism].- Equation of state of mixed monolayers of fatty acid and derivatives of 4-nitroaniline and 2-methyl-4-nitro aniline.- Equilibrium and dynamic behavior of a system containing a mixture of anionic and nonionic surfactants.- Effect of hydrogen bonding on water in oil emulsion properties.- Water-in-crude oil emulsions. Formation, characterization, and destabilization.- Gas-blocking foams in porous media: effects of oil and surfactant hydrophobe carbon number.- The influence of surfactants on coalescence filtration.- Langmuir-blodgett film deposition studied by a surface acoustic wave device.- An improved version of the drop volume tensiometer applied to aqueous/silicone oil systems.- Interaction of steroids with a model of stratum corneum lipids.- Microemulsions as vehicles for lipase catalyzed reactions.- Kinetics of surfactant-induced leakage and growth of unilamellar vesicles.- Effects of salts on association and conformational equilibria of macromolecules in solution.- Charge fluctuations and microemulsion conductivity.- Structure of inverse micelles and emulsion-gels with fluorinated nonionic surfactants. A small-angle neutron scattering study.- Effect of alcohols on micelle formation in aqueous solutions of ethoxylated nonyl-phenols.- On the variation of microstructure within surfactant solutions.- Aggregation behavior of sodium dodecylsulfate in water-1,2-ethanediol mixtures.- Solution properties of selected functionalized surfactants.- Nonionic surfactant phase behavior. The effect of CH3 capping of the terminal OH. Accurate measurements of cloud curves.- Physical organogels: solvent-induced structural variations in rod-like surfactant aggregates.- Phase diagrams for cationic surfactants in polar solvent systems.- Phase behavior of some nonionic polymers in nonaqueous solvents.- Phase behavior and structure in the soybean phosphatidylcholine-ethanol-water system.- Partial phase equilibria and partition of alcohol cosurfactants in ionic microemulsions.- Effects of pressure, temperature and salinity on the multiphase behavior of the surfactant/methane and n-decane/NaCl brine system.- Effects of particle concentration, ionic strength, pH and temperature on the microelectrophoretic mobility of cationic polystyrene latex. I.- Resistance to fouling accomplished by modification of ultrafiltration membranes.- Functionized mica surfaces obtained by a cold plasma process.- Applications of the hard-soft acid-base (HSAB) principle to solid adhesion and surface tribointeractions.- Immobilization of anti-hCG on gold and aluminum surfaces.- Theoretical analysis of the forward reaction of antibody binding to surface-immobilized antigen.- Immobilization of membrane enzymes into magnetizable, phospholipid bilayer-coated, inorganic colloids.