A Themed Issue in Honor of Prof. Boris Noskov

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue belongs to a group of issues in our journal dedicated to outstanding scientists, pioneers in their scientific field, founders of schools, inventors of instruments, and experts having great achievements in colloid and interface science. Authors are invited to submit their contributions here to underline the particular role of the honored scientist.

Boris Noskov is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry at St. Petersburg University (SPbU), where he has been a faculty member since 1971 and received his PhD in 1979. In 2000, he was habilitated and, in the same year, became a Professor at St. Petersburg University. Since 2007, Prof. Noskov is the Head of the Laboratory of Surface Phenomena. From 2001 to 2012, he was an invited researcher in Max-Planck Institute on colloid and interface science (Potsdam, Germany), a visiting Professor at the University of Florence (Italy), and Laue-Langevin Institute (Grenoble, France). Professor Noskov has a large number of collaborations with researchers in Europe and Asia and has published approximately 100 joint papers.

Professor Noskov is a well-known expert in surface phenomena of complex liquids and colloid science. His main research interest is related to the theoretical and experimental development of methods for surface rheology. The general thermodynamic theory of surface dilational rheology developed by Professor Noskov led to the derivation of particular expressions for the dynamic surface elasticity for surfactant solutions with mixed adsorption kinetics, micellar, and polymer solutions. These results allowed the group from SPbU to apply the methods of surface rheology to spread and adsorbed layers of surfactants, polymers, proteins, nanoparticles, and their mixtures. Other research interests of Professor Noskov include adsorption layers of fullerene derivatives, amyloid fibrils and other protein aggregates, interactions of fullerenes with polymers and proteins in the surface layer, formation of complexes between DNA and oppositely charged molecules at the liquid–gas interface, adsorption kinetics, and propagation and scattering of capillary waves in complex liquids. Currently, it is generally accepted that dynamic surface properties have strong effects on the stability and dynamics of emulsions and foams, which are used in various branches of industry. Therefore, the topic of this Special Issue will cover the dynamic properties of liquid–fluid interfaces. The issue will focus mainly on surface rheological properties of solutions of surfactants, polymers, and proteins, dispersions of micro- and nanoparticles, and on the adsorption kinetics in these systems. Other relevant topics will include the application of different modern techniques for investigations of structural transitions and the formation of heterogeneous adsorption and spread layers at liquid–fluid interfaces.

The submissions to this Special Issue aim at honoring the particular work of Professor Noskov for his great achievements over almost 50 years of work as a scientist and teacher at St. Petersburg University.

Dr. Olga Milyaeva
Dr. Alexey Bykov
Guest Editors

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