Surfactants and Macromolecules: Self-Assembly at Interfaces and in Bulk [Paperback]

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.- Effel3¦