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Opening address at the 38th general conference of the German colloid society in Essen.- Wolfgang-ostwald-prize 1997: Awarded to Stig Friberg.- Thomas Graham Prize 1997 awarded to Armin Weiss.- The importance of colloid chemistry in industrial practice.- From polyurethane foam stabilization to amphiphilic particles — An example of industrial R&D in colloid chemistry.- Experimental progress in the characterization of colloidal systems.- Colloids and interfaces: a theoretical perspective.- Adsorption of colloid particle mixtures at interfaces.- Correlation and prediction of liquid phase adsorption equilibria.- Large metal clusters and colloids — Metals in the embryonic state.- Mechanics of encapsulated droplets.- Stability of hydrophilic/hydrophobic silica particles in binary liquids: Adsorption, rheological and SAXS experiments.- The reverse behavior of negatively and positively charged poly (N-isopropylacrylamide latex dispersions in alcohol-water mixtures at temperatures below their phase transition.- High pressure DC-magnetron sputtering on liquids: A new process for the production of metal nanosuspensions.- Time periodic changes of viscosity in kaolin suspensions as an example for modelling concentrated suspensions.- Vapor pressure of phenethyl alocohol and phenethyl acetate in the system with water and nonionic surfactant — Polyoxyethylene 4 lauryl ether (Brij®30).- Microemulsion systems based on a C8/10 alkyl polyglucoside: A reentrant phase inversion induced by alcohols?.- Polymer-modified ionic microemulsions formed in the system SDS/water/xylene/pentanol.- Preparing microemulsions with silicone surfactants.- Influence of solubilized stilbazolium salts in trans and cis configuration on the percolation equilibrium in AOT-isooctane-water microemulsions: Lightinduced switching of conductivity.- Structure and dynamics of surfactant-based foams.- Lyotropic liquid-crystalline elastomers.- Adsorption of polyelectrolytes on colloidal particles — Electrostatic interactions and stability behaviour.- Some aspects of colloidal polymers: Solvent structure originated interactions.- A proton NMR study on the structure of interfacial water of aqueous micelles: Effects of the structure of the surfactant.- Self-diffusion processes of water molecules near the surface of sodium octanoate micelles studied by molecular dynamics computer experiments.- Surfactant/foam process for improved efficiency of aquifer remediation.- Surfactant selection criteria for enhanced subsurface remediation: Laboratory and field observations.- Adsorption of anionic surfactant Na-dodecylsulphate (SDS) at the polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-modified Na-montmorillonite surface.- Sorption of Cu2+ and Zn2+ at Na-montmorillonite: Analysis by means of affinity spectra.- Behavior of suspended and colloidal particles during artificial groundwater recharge.- On the influence of surfactants on the mobility of contaminants.- Interaction of colloidal soil particles, humic substances and cationic detergents studied by X-ray microscopy.

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