Table of Contents

Part I Theory of Self-Assembly and Ion-Specific Effects. One Hundred Years of Micelles: Evolution of the Theory of Micellization. Ionic Surfactants and Ion-Specific Effects: Adsorption, Micellization, and Thin Liquid Films. Part II Surfactants at Solid—Liquid Interfaces. Wettability of Solid-Supported Lipid Layers. Surfactant Adsorption Layers at Liquid Interfaces. Wetting and Spreading by Aqueous Surfactant Solutions. Wetting Instabilities in Langmuir–Blodgett Film Deposition. Interfacial Studies of Coffee-Based Beverages: From Flavor Perception to Biofuels. Part III Polymeric Surfactants and Polymer/Surfactant Mixtures. DNA Release from Cross-Linked DNA Gels and DNA Gel Particles. Advances in Poly(Amino Acid)s–Based Amphiphilic Graft Polymers and Their Biomedical Applications. Polymeric Surfactants and Some of Their Applications. Part IV Biosurfactants. Biosurfactants. Microbially Derived Biosurfactants: Sources, Design, and Structure-Property Relationships. Part V Formulation and Application of Surfactant Aggregates. Triggered Drug Release Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Delivery Vehicles. Pharmaceutical Microemulsions and Drug Delivery. Hydrotropes: Structure and Function. Surfactant Ionic Liquids: Potential Structured Reaction Media? Stimuli-Responsive Surfactants: History and Applications. Part VI Formulation and Application of Emulsions. Progress in Designing Emulsion Properties Over a Century: Emerging Phenomenological Guidelines from Generalized Formulation and Prospects to Transmute the Knowledge into Know-How. An Overview of Surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery. Soil Removal by Surfactants during Cleaning Processes. Index.

About the Author

Laurence (Larry) S. Romsted, Ph.D., is a chemistry professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Piscataway. He has published 92 papers using physical organic chemistry methods to probe properties of association colloids, and he has given about 90 invited talks at international meetings and another 90 university seminars. In 1991, he published what proved to be a singularly important paper in Accounts of Chemical Research, "Ion Binding and Reactivity at Charged Aqueous Interfaces," that spread the pseudophase model for micellar catalysis to the world.