Leading Nordic-Baltic scientists and their colleagues from other countries present recent research on a broad range of topics in surface and colloid science: adhesion, adsorption processes, characterization of solid/liquid and solid/polymer interfaces, chemical and particle depositions, colloid stability, emulsification and encapsulation, interfacial reactions, new surfactants, polymer-surfactant interactions, self-assembly processes, and functionalized surfaces for bio- and chemosensors. The papers were presented at the 1st Nordic-Baltic Meeting on Surface and Colloid Science, which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on August 21-25, 1999, as a continuation of the traditional Scandinavian Symposium on Surface Chemistry.

Self-Assembly of Lipids, Macromolecules and Surfactants

Effects of the insecticides malathion and deltamethrin on the phase behaviour of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine multilamellar lipid bilayers
On the swelling of monoolein liquid-crystalline aqueous phases in the presence of distearoylphosphatidylglycerol
Entrapment of glucose oxidase into the cubic Q230 and Q224 phases of aqueous monoolein
DNA-surfactant complexes in a water/alcohol mixture
Environmentally benign nonionic surfactant systems for use in highly alkaline media
Vesicle-to-micelle transition in dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide and dioctadecyldimethylammonium chloride dispersions induced by octaethylene glycol n-dodecyl monoether. An isothermal titration calorimetry study
Structure and dynamics of polymer-like reverse micelles
Gelation of steroid-bearing dextrans by surfactants
Disperse Systems
Sorption and catalytic properties of Latvian clay powders
Deposition of wood resin emulsion droplets on ceramic oxides
Effect of reaction variables on the formation of silica particles by hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate using sodium hydroxide as a basic catalyst
Interfacial Processes
Interfacial interaction between ethyl(hydroxyethyl) cellulose and sodium dodecyl sulphate
Comparison of model surfaces for cellulose interactions: elevated pH
Interactions between surfaces coated with cationic hydrophobically modified polyelectrolyte in the presence and the absence of oppositely charged surfactant
Transitional behaviour of amphiphiles at the air/water interface under equilibrium and dynamic conditions
Adsorption from soybean phosphatidylcholine/N-dodecyl ?-d-maltoside dispersions at liquid/solid and liquid/air interfaces
Ideal (Langmuir-type surface and electricproperties of tert- isopropylphosphine oxide at the air/water interface
Dynamic wetting and dewetting by aqueous solutions containing amphiphilic compounds
Effects of motion in n-hexanol solution on the lifetime of bubbles at the solution surface
Chemical deposition of copper sulfide films in the surface of polyethylene by the use of higher polythionic acids
Chemical Deposition of Copper Selenide Films in the Surface Layer of Polyamide by the use of Selenopolythionates
Biosensor Applications
The role of micelles in mediator-assisted peroxidase catalysis
An oxygen-independent ethanol sensor based on quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase covalently bound to a functionalized polypyrrole film
Millihertz waveband oscillations in an unstirred bacterial culture.