Advances in Soft Matter Interfaces and Structures
A special issue of Colloids and Interfaces (ISSN 2504-5377).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 2074
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: physical chemistry of soft interfaces; adsorption dynamics and surface rheology; structure of interfacial layers; thin liquid films; foams and emulsions; surfactants, polymers and proteins
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Dear Colleagues,
Liquid/fluid interfaces, and corresponding soft matter multiphase systems like foams and emulsions, are ubiquitous in nature and play fundamental roles in various technologies. This large scientific domain has existed for centuries, and an enormous body of original and review articles, as well as numerous books (including the most recent one Emulsions: From Single Interfaces to Applications) on pertinent topics have been published so far. Yet, this field of research is still of great interest because of existing open questions in the basic scientific understanding of related phenomena and processes, and on the other hand, because of the diversity of relevant applications. The field is a platform for development of different research directions in colloid chemistry (interfacial dynamics; electrostatics and fine structure; surface rheology; thin liquid films; foams and emulsions; etc.), in biology, biotechnology and medicine (complex fluid interfaces; bilayer lipid membranes; phase-separated condensates; etc.), in nanostructures and nanomaterials (self-assembly and coacervation; nanoarchitectonics; nanocomposites; etc.) and in other research areas. Supramolecular structures, such as, polymer or protein microgel particles as well as food-grade protein-based amyloid fibrils, increasingly attract interest due to their abilities to functionalize soft interfaces in unique ways. Surprisingly, the interactions between such complex interfaces in thin liquid films are extremely scarcely studied. Water-in-water emulsions based on aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) have become extensively studied and a significant amount of valuable information has already been published. However, the all-aqueous nature of these peculiar emulsion systems causes inevitable difficulties for researchers, mainly due to the severely restricted applicability of most of the available surface-sensitive experimental methods. Hence, our fundamental understanding of the ATPS water/water interface and the mechanisms of stabilization of water droplets in water is currently in its infancy. Notably, this scientific problem is of primary importance to understand any aqueous-phase separation phenomenon and process, such as cell compartmentalization.
Dr. Georgi G. Gochev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surfactants, polymers and proteins
- amphiphile self-assembly, aggregation and coacervation
- microgels and amyloid fibrils
- interfacial monolayers, bilayers (membranes) and multilayers
- adsorption dynamics
- surface rheology
- interfacial charge
- thin liquid films
- foams and emulsions
- liquid–liquid phase separation
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