"This volume of 24 papers chronicles part of the proceedings of this symposium. The other part is contained in a companion volume of 20 papers entitled 'Adsorption at interfaces.'"--Page ix. Includes bibliographical references and index.

A third of a century of colloid chemistry / Robert D. Vold and Marjorie J. Vold -- Macrocluster gas : liquid and biliquid foams and their biological significance / Felix Sebba -- Mechanical and surface coagulation / W. Heller -- Kinetics of ultracentrifugal demulsification / Robert D. Vold and Alice Ulhee Hahn -- Ultracentrifugal technique in the study of emulsions / K.L. Mittal -- Electric emulsification / Akira Watanabe, Ken Higashitsuji, and Kazuo Nishizawa -- Macromolecular emulgents in emulsion stability / S.N. Srivastava -- Viscoelastic properties of W/O emulsions containing microcrystalline wax / H. Komatsu and P. Sherman -- "True" emulsion polymerization of acrylate esters using mixed emulsifiers / A.R.M. Azad, R.M. Fitch, and J. Ugelstad -- Kinetic theory for the slow flocculation at the secondary minimum / Pranab Bagchi -- Stability of sterically stabilized dispersions at high polymer concentrations / F.K.R. Li-In-On, B. Vincent, and F.A. Waite -- Stability of aqueous dispersions in polymer-surfactant complexes. Ethirimol dispersions in mixtures of poly-(vinyl alcohol) with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide or sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate / Th. F. Tadros -- Rheological studies of polymer chain interaction / Robert J. Hunter, Paul C. Neville, and Bruce A. Firth -- Nonaqueous dispersion : carbon black in heptane solution of manganese and zinc salts of 2-ethylhexanoic acid / B.R. Vijayendran -- Micelle formation in nonaqueous media / Ayao Kitahara and Kijiro Kon-No -- Thermodynamics of micelle formation / K.S. Birdi -- Anomalies of partially fluorinated surfactant micelles / Pasupati Mukerjee and Karol J. Mysels -- Deuteron NMR studies on soap-water mesophases / Hêakan Wennerstrèom, Nils-Ola Persson, and Bjèorn Lindman -- Influence of electrolyte on phase equilibria and phase structure in the binary system of di-2-ethylhexyl sulphosuccinate and water / Krister Fontell -- Dissolution mechanism of water-soluble polymers (partially saponified polyvinyl acetates) / Hironobu Kunieda and Kåozo Shinåoda -- Thermodynamic aspects of the mixing of mono-amides and poly-peptides with water / P. Assarsson, N.Y. Chen, and F.R. Eirich -- Equilibrium dialysis and viscometric studies on the interaction of surfactants with proteins / W.U. Malik and V.P. Saxena -- Derivation of equations to account for the variation of pH and specific conductivity of gum arabic acid sol with dilution / B.N. Ghosh -- Electrokinetic approach to the selection of blood compatible materials and anticoagulant drugs / Supramaniam Srinivasan and Barry R. Weiss.