Smart Colloidal Materials (eBook)

PREFACE 6
CONTENTS 7
POLYMER PARTICLES AND CAPSULES 9
Amphiphilic, Peptide-Modified Core/ Shell Microgels 9
Thermally Sensitive Colloidal Particles: From Preparation to Biomedical Applications 17
Microparticles Used as Drug Delivery Systems 23
Molecular Exchange Through Capsule Membranes Observed by Pulsed Field Gradient NMR 30
Modular Surfmers with Activated Ester Function – A Colloidal Tool for the Preparation of Bioconjugative Nanoparticles 38
Structure of Doubly Temperature Sensitive Core-Shell Microgels Based on Poly-N-Isopropylacrylamide and Poly-N-Isopropylmethacrylamide 43
Responsive Giant Vesicles Filled with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Sols or Gels 49
POLYELECTROLYTES, COLLOIDAL INTERACTIONS 53
Surface Modification of Thermoresponsive Microgels via Layer- by- Layer Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers 53
Potential Profiles Between Polyelectrolyte Multilayers and Spherical Colloids Measured with TIRM 60
Polyelectrolyte-mediated Protein Adsorption 66
The Present State of Molecular Forces 73
Ion Specific Interactions Between Pairs of Nanometer Sized Particles in Aqueous Solutions 82
Star Polymers with Tunable Attractions: Cluster Formation, Phase Separation, Reentrant Crystallization 86
Consistence of the Mean Field Description of Charged Colloidal Crystal Properties 96
Restricted Rotational Diffusion of Non-rigid Dumbbell- Type Macromolecules on Surfaces: Effects of the Bead- Bead and Bead- Surface Interaction 103
SURFACTANTS 108
The Rheology of Foams 108
Photo-destructible Surfactants in Microemulsions 114
Soret Effect in a Nonionic Surfactant System 119
Surfactant Adsorption in Ordered Mesoporous Silica Studied by SANS 124
Thermodynamic Analysis of Lysozyme Denaturation by Surfactants 131
Benzyl (3-Acylaminopropyl) Dimethylammonium Chloride Surfactants: Structure and Some Properties of the Micellar Aggregates 139
PARTICLES AND CHARACTERIZATION 150
Long Range Particle Transport in Liquid Crystal- alkane Mixtures 150
Titania Coated Silica Nano-spheres as Catalyst in the Photodegradation of Hydrocarbons 155
Formation of Rod-like CdS Nanoparticles in SDS/ Decanol Based Multilamellar Vesicles 160
Colloidchemical Interactions of Silica Particles in the Cu- CMP-Process 167
Characterization of Porous Bead Celluloses by Analytical Centrifugation 177
Light-scattering in Turbid Fluids: Scattering Intensity and Amplitude of the Auto- correlation Function 181
AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX 189
KEY WORD INDEX 191