This volume contains the proceedings of the IXth annual meeting of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) which took place in Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995. 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:
- Surfactant aggregates, micelles, vesicles and liquid crystals;
- Colloidal particles: interaction, structure and aggregation;
- Emulsions and concentrated systems;
- Microemulsions;
- Mixed colloidal systems; - Rheology;
- Biocolloids; - Membranes, films and interfaces.

Formation and structure of reverse vesicles

Phase diagram of the 1-dodecyl pyridinium bromide-dodecane-water surfactant system
Characterization of structural transitions in the SLS/n-alcohol/water system
Surfactant self-diffusion and networks of wormlike micelles in concentrated solutions of nonionic surfactants
Thermodynamic theory and experimental studies on mixed short-chain lecithin micelles
Phase behavior in sodium cholate/calcium chloride mixtures
The effect of sub-solubilizing concentrations of sodium deoxycholate on the order of acyl chains in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Study of the fluorescence anistropy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH)
Multifractality of lyotropic liquid crystal formation
Surfactant aggregation and response of ion-selective electrode
3-Deoxy-s-alkyl-d-glucose derivative micelle formation, CMC and thermodynamics
Computer simulation studies of surfactant systems
Equation of state of a colloidal crystal: An USAXS and osmotic pressure study
Interaction behaviour in a binary mixture of polymer particles
Electric light scattering from polytetrafluorethylene suspensions. II. Influence of dialysis
Two photon rayleigh scattering in micellar and microemulsion systems
Dynamic scaling in colloidal fractal aggregation: Influence of particle surface charge density
Effects of shear flow on a critical colloidal dispersion: a light scattering study
Synthesis and characterization of latex particles with acetal functionality
Morphology of heterogeneous latex particles investigated by atomic force microscopy
Dynamic properties of magnetic colloidal particles: Theory and experiments
Two-dimensional concentration domain patterns in magnetic suspensions: Energetical and kinetic approach
Adsorption-desorption process of Sodium Diclofenac in Poly-alkylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles
Determination of the complex refractive index of bulk tellurium and its use in particle size determination
Structure of adsorbed polymer layers: Loops and tails
Probing slow fluctuations in nonergodic systems: Interleaved sampling technique
The effect of the internal architecture of polymer micronetwork colloids on the dynamics in highly concentrated dispersions
Transport properties of W/O highly concentrated emulsions (gel-emulsions)
Quantifying the concept of physico-chemical formulation in surfactant-oil-water systems - State of the art
Interbubble gas transfer in persistent foams resulting from surfactant mixtures
Equilibrium states and structure factor of concentrated colloidal dispersions in optimized random phase approximation
Development of core-shell colloids to study self-diffusion in highly concentrated dispersions
Concentrated graphite suspensions in aqueous polymer solutions
Experimental investigation of the structure of nonionic microemulsions and their relation to the bending elasticity of the amphiphilic film
Effects of salinity on the electrical conductivity of a water-in-oil microemulsion
Dielectric relaxation of microemulsions
Percolation in fluorinated microemulsions: A dielectric study
Adhesive spheres mixture model of water-in-oil microemulsions
Preparation of Gd2CuO4 via sol-gel in microemulsions
Fluorescence studies of the drug Piroxicam in reverse micelles of AOT and microemulsions of Triton X-100
Depletion interaction and phase separation in mixtures of colloidal particles and nonionic micelles
The effect of monovalent and divalent cations on sterically stabilized phospholipid vesicles (liposomes)
Adsorption of gluconic and citricacids on maghemite particles in aqueous medium
Influence of heat treatment on the surface properties of functionalized polymer colloids
Kinetics of crystal growth of ?-PbF2 and micellization of non-ionic surfactant Triton X-100 at steady-state condition
Selective solubilization of the stratum corneum components using surfactants
Influence of surfactant-gelatin interaction on microcapsule characteristics
Microscopic mechanisms of non-linear rheology of crystalline colloidal dispersionss
Linear viscoelasticity of O/W sucrose-palmitate emulsions
Structural models to describe thixotropic behavior
The effect of surface friction on the rheology of hard-sphere colloids
Rheological properties of concentrated lateritic suspensions
Surface charge characterization and protein adsorption at biomaterials surfaces
Cyclodextrins as molecular tools to investigate the surface properties of potato 5-lipoxygenase
Microemulsions as reaction medium for a substitution reaction
Lecithin W/O microemulsions as a host for trypsin. Enzyme activity and luminescence decay studies
Synthesis and properties of bioactive surfactants containing ?-lactam ring
Two alternatives: Lipase and/or microcapsule engineering to improve the activity and stability of Pseudomonas sp. and Candida rugosa lipases in anionic micelles
A study of the interaction of adrenocorticotropin-(1-24)-tetracosapeptide with BLM and liposomes
Impact of the surface charge of magnetoproteoliposomes on the enzymatic oxidation of cytochrome c
The direct measurement of the interfacial composition of surfactant/polymer mixed layers at the air-water interface using neutron reflection
Dynamic of soluble adsorption layer studied by a maximum bubble pressure method in the µs and ms range of time.-Skin formation on liquid surfaces under non-equilibrium conditions
Dynamic surface properties of aqueous solutions
Electric potential differences across lipid mono- and bilayers
Evidence of entropic contribution to "hydration" forces between membranes
Pore kinetics of mastoparan petpides in large unilamellar lipid vesicles
Head-group variations and monolayer structures of diol derivatives
Macromolecules in ordered media III. A fluorescence study on the association of poly-2-vinylpyridine with a phospholipid bilayer
Lysozyme separation by colloidal gas aphrons.