Trends in Colloid and Interface Science III [Paperback]

Dielectrophoresis, instability, and electrofusion in membrane systems.- Bending undulations of lipid bilayers and the red blood cell membrane: A comparative study.- Thermal fluctuations of giant vesicles and elastic properties of bilayer lipid membranes. The role of the excess surface.- Rheological properties of gelatin gels filled with phospholipids vesicles. Dynamic and uniaxial compression measurements.- Behavior of liposomes prepared from lung surfactant analogues and spread at the air-water interface.- Laser-induced temperature jump and time-resolved x-ray powder diffraction on phospholipid phase transitions.- Modifications of the structure and dynamics of dimyristoylphosphatidic acid model membranes by calcium ions and poly-L-lysines. A Raman and deuterium NMR study.- Lipid mixtures in monolayer and BLM.- Characterization of small lipid vesicles prepared by microfluidization.- Mixed monolayers of two polypeptides at the water/air interface.- Enzyme activity and cation exchange as tools for the study of the conformation of proteins adsorbed on mineral surfaces.- Electrokinetic and stability properties of cholesterol in aqueous NaCl and NaCl + bile salt solutions.- Phase behavior of cationic lipoaminoacid surfactant systems.- Cytochrome c monolayer and mixed surfactant-cytochrome c monolayer.- Orientation of rods formed by aggregated surfactants in organic media: the steroid-cyclohexane physical gel case.- Use of microemulsion systems as media for heterogeneous enzymic catalysis.- Preparation of monodisperse, magnetizable, composite metal/polymer microspheres.- Fractal structure of Portland cement paste during age hardening analyzed by small-angle x-ray scattering.- Asphalt emulsions: experimental study of the cationic surfactant adsorption at the asphalt-water interface.- An overview of recent results on rheology of concentrated colloidal dispersions.- Correlation of viscoelastic properties of concentrated dispersions with their interparticle interaction.- Syntl#,