The Colloid Science of Lipids

This volume includes a number of selected papers of the international conference "Colloidal Aspects of Lipids", held in June 1997 at Lund, Sweden. In conjunction with the conference Professor Kare Larsson, well-known and respected as a leading scientist in this field of food technology during the recent decades, was honored.

Conceptual locks and cubic phases. - Secondary nucleation in triglyceride crystallization. - Kinetics of formation of structures in a three-phase system water/lamellar liquid crystal/water-in-oil microemulsion after shear. - New biomaterials based upon biomembrane mimicry. - Polymers for bioadhesion, absorption control and tissue separation. - Interactions between layers of salivary acidic proline rich protein 1 (PRP 1) adsorbed on mica surfaces. - A structural model for the human skin barrier. - Lipase-surfactant interactions. - Newest understandings of molecular structures and interactions of unsaturated fats and fatty acids. - Conformation and packing of membrane lipids: Crystal structures of lysophosphatidylcholines. - Structural characteristics and redox activity of the cubic monoolein/ubiquinone-10/water phase. - New trends in double emulsions for controlled release. - Solvent-induced sponge (L 3) phases in the solvent-monoolein-water system. - Micelles and liquid crystals in aqueous diglycerol monodecanoate systems. - Microstructures in solution and ordered phases of surfactants. Self-diffusion in the AOT/octanol/water system. - Influence of a charged phospholipid on the release pattern of timolol maleate from cubic liquid crystalline phases. - Sphingomyelin a dietary component with structural and biological function. - Hexagonally perforated lamellae with uniform mean curvature. - Hexagonal mesophases: honeycomb, froth, mesh or sponge? . - On microstructural transitions of lamellar phase forming surfactants. - Adsorption of human carbonic anhydrase II onto silicon oxides surfaces: The effects of truncation in the N-terminal region. - New approaches to rapid spectroscopic evaluation of properties in pectic polymers. - A multivariate study of diffuse reflectance infrared profiles ofresin fractions from crude oils. - Detection of phase and structural changes in a 7-aminocoumarin monolayer by dynamic and optical methods. - Coordination in inorganics. - Coordination in inorganics.