Chapter 1 Introduction to Surface and Colloid Chemistry ................................. 1 K.S.Birdi Chapter 2 Hydrogen Bonding in Solutions: The Equation-of-State Approach ................. 5 Costas G. Panayiotou Chapter 3 Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension of Liquids ........................... 67 K.S.Birdi Chapter 4 Surface Waves and Dissipative Solitons Sustained by the Marangoni Effect .... 119 Michele Vignes-Adler and Manuel G. Velarde Chapter 5 Chemical Physics of Colloid Systems and Interfaces .......................... 137 Peter A. Kralchevsky, Krassimir D. Danov, and Nikolai D. Denkov Chapter 6 Solubilization in Aqueous Surfactant Systems ................................ 345 Harald Hoiland and Anne Marit Blokhus Chapter 7 Colloid Systems and Interfaces — Stability of Dispersions through Polymer and Surfactant Adsorption ................................................... 387 P.Somasundaran, B.Markovic, X.Yu, and S.Krishnakumar Chapter 8 Controlled Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic Oxides — A Molecular Approach .................................................................... 437 Jarl B. Rosenholm and Mika Linden Chapter 9 Solubilization in Surfactant Systems ........................................ 511 Clarence A. Miller Chapter 10 Cohesion Energy Parameters Applied to Surface Phenomena ..................... 539 Charles M. Hansen Chapter 11 Self-Assembly of Monodispersed Spherical Colloids into Complex Structures ... 555 Younan Xia, Byron Gates, Yadong Yin, and Yugang Sun Chapter 12 Thermally Sensitive Latex Particles: Preparation, Characterization, and Application in the Biomedical Field ......................................... 581 Abdelhamid Elaissari Chapter 13 Nucleic Acid-Dependent Enzymatic Reactions in Conventional Liposomes and Giant Vesicles .......................................................... 611 Thomas Oberholzer Chapter 14 Scattering and Absorption of Light by Particles and Aggregates .............. 623 C.M.Sorensen Chapter 15 Application of Scanning Probe Microscopy (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy) in Colloid and Surface Chemistry ............... 653 K.S.Birdi and D.T.Vu Chapter 16 Thermodynamics of Polymer Solutions ......................................... 683 Georgios M. Kontogeorgis Index ....................................................................... 749