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49692-SE At the Fluid Interface: Monolayers of Surfactants, Microparticles and Nanoparticles, at the 83rd ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 14-19, 2009, New York, NY
Close to 1400 participants participated in the 13th IACIS and 83rd ACS Colloid and Surface Science Conference in New York, New York - June 14-19, 2009. Each day began with a plenary lecture to the full audience, then participants broke out into smaller sessions. The program included over 1000 oral presentations held during 15 parallel sessions throughout the week. Session topics included interfacial fields and forces, environmental colloid and interfacial processes, biointerfaces, polymer-surfactant interactions, colloidal gels, electrokinetics and microfluidics.
The ACS grant assisted sessions related to monolayers of surfactants, microparticles and nanoparticles at the fluid interface, such as the session entitled “Surfactants and Supermolecular Assemblies: Langmuir and Gibbs Monolayers,” organized by Alexander Couzis. Individual presentations related to the topic included “Electric Field Induced Alignment And Self-Assembly of Particles On Fluid-Fluid Interfaces (Sai Nudurupati),” “Two-Dimensional Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals by Fluid Interface Templating (Bum Jun Park),” “Microparticles at Fluid Interfaces: Structure, Dynamics and Their Use as Probes for Monolayer Microrheology (Francisco Ortega),” “Selective Surface Modification with Two-Dimensional Micro-Templates Formed In Mixed Langmuir Monolayers (Ken-ichi Iimura),” “Complex Formation And Phase Transformations In Saturated Phosphatidylcholine/DSPE-PEG2000 Langmuir Monolayers And Microbubble Shells (Marjorie L. Longo),” and “Simulation Studies On the Properties of Lipid Monolayers at the Stability Limit (Svetlana Baoukina).”
Plenary lecturers for the conference included Matt Trau (University of Queensland), who presented his report, “Mining for Cancer Biomarkers: Colloids in Early Disease Detection, Personalized Medicine and Diagnostics.” Yoshio Okahata (Tokyo Institute of Technology) gave his talk, “Hydration and Viscoelasticity of Biomolecules.” Ivar Giaever (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) spoke on biophysics, and Brian Vincent (University of Bristol) presented on microgels. The conference was a great success.
