Ten Years Without Nikola Kallay
A special issue of Colloids and Interfaces (ISSN 2504-5377).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2025) | Viewed by 704
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface complexation; adsorption from aqueous solution; environmental chemistry; geochemistry; aquatic chemistry; colloid and interface science
Interests: colloid and interfacial chemistry; electrical interfacial layer; adsorption; thermochemistry
Interests: physical chemistry of macromolecules; polyelectrolyte multilayers; polyelectrolyte complexes; colloid and interfacial chemistry; adsorption
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2015, Nikola Kallay unexpectedly passed away at the age of 72. He had retired from the official positions he held at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, in Croatia’s capital and was looking forward to diving into laboratory endeavors with this newfound freedom.
Prof. Kallay had an interesting practical course, where he allowed interested students to work on somewhat risky topics. The tasks required the students to dig into some hotly debated scientific issues or do try something completely new, for example. The outcomes of these practical courses often lead to new research lines in the years to follow.
The present Special Issue is intended to give friends and collaborators the platform to remind the scientific community of their relationship to Niki and to share some unconventional or unexpected results just in the spirit of Niki’s scientific view.
Dr. Johannes Lützenkirchen
Prof. Dr. Tajana Begović
Prof. Dr. Davor Kovačević
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- interfaces
- surface potential
- zeta-potential
- adsorption
- aggregation
- thermodynamics
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