This volume contains the proceedings of the VIIIth annual meeting of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) which took place in Montpellier, France, in September 1994.
The contributions cover a broad range of fields in modern colloid science, as well as their technical, experimental and theoretical aspects. Specific emphasis is given to:
- Mixed systems: amphiphilic phases incorporating foreign particles
- Concentrated suspensions and emulsions: structure and mechanical properties
- Interactions and long-range order
- Supramolecular structures under flow
- Bio-colloids

Colloidal stability of model polymer colloids with different functional groups

Kinetics of crystal growth in charged colloidal suspensions
Lateral capillary forces between colloidal particles incorporated in liquid films or lipid bilayers
Colloid structural forces in thin liquid films
Phase separation in aqueous magnetic colloidal solutions
Fingering phenomena at bending instability of a magnetic fluid stripe
Investigation of liquid crystalline phases using microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and rheological techniques
Phase diagram of dispersion of anisotropic particles
Association between hydrophobic polyelectrolytes and nonionic surfactants. Phase behavior and rheology
Interactions between hydrophobically modified polyelectrolyte and oppositely charged surfactant. Mixed micelle formation
Surfactant-polymer interaction in thermo-induced gelling systems of ethyl (hydroxyethyl) cellulose (EHEC) studied by NMR self-diffusion, dynamic light scattering and rheology
A comparison of several samples of modified hydroxyethyl cellulose and their interactions with surfactants
Study of mixtures of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide-non-ionic surfactant in aqueous phase and in the kaoliin-water interfacial surface
Effect of the addition of block copolymers on the formation and stability of vesicles (liposomes) prepared using soybean lecithin
Scattering studies of mixed micelles formed from C16TAB and C12E6 surfactants
Dynamics of monodisperse and bidisperse polymer latices
Anionic-nonionic surfactant mixture to attain emulsion insensitivity to temperature
Colloidal stability in homo- and hetero-coagulation processes. Comparison between theoretical and experimental data
Quantitative description of the non-linear flow properties of viscoelastic surfactant solutions
Model hard sphere systems under flow, a novel experimental approach
Rheology of concentrated colloidal suspension: indirect prediction of interaction potential
Rheological properties of fine disperse o/w-emulsions
Phase behaviour in the uniform shear of idealised suspensions
Short-time dynamics and sedimentation of charge-stabilized suspensions
Motion of a pair of rigid ferrofluid drops in a rotating magnetic field
Adsorption of macromolecular surfactants on polystyrene latex particles and the rheology of the resulting dispersions
Deposition and release of colloidal particles in porous media
On the relationship between dynamic interfacial tension and O/W emulsion stabilizing properties of soybean lecithins
Effect of the counter- and co-ion valencies on the complex dielectric constant of a colloidal suspension
Particle size determinations in colloidal suspensions of randomly oriented ellipsoids
Analysis of the solvent mediated contribution to the effective adhesion of colloidal dispersions using baxter's model
Sperhical polymer micronetwork colloids - A small-angle scattering study
pH-dependent aggregation state of highly dispersed alumina, titania and silica particles in aqueous medium
Contribution to the modelization of the emulsification in a colloid mill
Properties of emulsion mixtures
Solubilization of polar oils in microemulsion systems
Colloidal macrostructure of crude oil
Acoustophoresis of electrolyte solutions and sedimentation profiles of screened charged colloids
Synthesis "in situ" in reverse micelles of silver sulfide semiconductors
Radiometry of colloid systems
Spontaneous vesicle formation: transition between single-and bicomponent system
The influence of single-chain-anchoredgalactose on the polymorphism of resuspended lyophilized dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine lipsomes
Phosphatidylcholine vesicle solubilization by glucosidic non-ionic surfactants: a turbidity and x-ray diffraction study
Polypeptide ?-sheet detection by cyanine dyes
Aggregation behavior of zinc-free insulin studied by small-angle neutron scattering: analysis by use of a thermodynamic equilibrium model
Lipase activity in anionic reverse micelles. Inhibition effect of the system
Shape transformations in biological mixed surfactant systems: from spheres to cylinders to vesicles
Electric field-induced breakdown in lipid membranes
Aggregation behavior of F(ab?)2 fragments carrying polymer beads
Studies of adsorption and surface shear rheology of mixed ?-lactoglobulin/surfactant systems
Structure of a layer of AOT adsorbed at the air/liquid interface at the critical micelle concentration determined by neutron reflection
Behavior and stability of lipid mixed monolayer at the air-water interface
Morphology and structures in double-, triple- and quadruple-chain phospholipid monolayers at the air/water interface
Experimental study of the breakage of a two-dimensional crystal
Morphology and growth of condensed phase structures in N-alkyl-aldonamide monolayers using brewster angle microscopy
Non-equilibrium structures in monolayers of fatty alcohols
On the molecular origin of the bending elastic moduli
Dilute and concentrated phases of vesicles at thermal equilibrium. Effect of bilayer elasticity
Encapsulation of solid microspheres by bilayers
A fundamental study of mica flotation in dodecylamine collector
Photophysical studies of pyrene solubilized in thin films of glass substrates
The optical properties of glass surfaces covered with latexparticles
Poisson-boltzmann cell model for charge renormalization in suspensions of interacting colloidal particles
Calorimetric studies of micellization and adsorption of zwitterionic surfactants
Calorimetric evidence for the similarity between the mechanisms of cationic and anionic surfactant adsorption on oppositely charged crystalline oxide surfaces.