Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (COCIS) is an international journal focused on the science related to interfaces and on the behavior of colloids and amphiphiles (surfactants, polar lipids, polymers and biopolymers) in solution.
The journal also encompasses molecular and nanoscopic aspects of materials science, industrial applications of colloids, and biologically-relevant systems. COCIS is not a primary journal; rather it seeks to guide the researcher through the maze of current published literature, and to highlight areas and papers which, in the opinion of the reviewers, are of special interest and significance.
Topics covered include: Theories and Simulations, Microscopy Methods, NMR, X-ray and Neutron Scattering, Surface Analysis Techniques, Emulsions and Microemulsions, Liquid Crystals, Thin Films and Foams, Polyelectrolytes, Reactivity in Colloidal Systems and at Interfaces, Surfactants, Food Colloids, Biological Colloids and Interfaces, Colloidal Dispersions, Self Assembly, Drug Delivery, Electrokinetics, Rheology, and, Wetting and Spreading.
For each of the above areas, Section Editors have been appointed, who will commission expert scientists to write an informed and critical article on a topic within that general field. The article is not intended to be a comprehensive compilation of the recent relevant literature, but rather is a personal article by the contributor(s), which sets out to both inform the reader of the major developments in the area, and to identify those papers which in the opinion of the author(s), have made the greatest impact on the field. Normally, the period covered by the review will be the previous two to three years.
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
- Nicholas Abbott
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Krister Holmberg
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
Biological Colloids and Interfaces
- Martin Malmsten
Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden - Stefan Zauscher
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Colloidal Dispersions
- Stefano Sacanna
New York University, New York, New York, USA - Patrick Spicer
UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Krassimir Velikov
Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Drug Delivery
- Samir Mitragotri
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Rita Vanbever-Zaman
Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Electrokinetics
- Johannes (Hans) Lyklema
Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, Netherlands - Carsten Werner
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany
Emulsions and Microemulsions
- Kenji Aramaki
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan - Carlos Rodriguez Abreu
Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Food Colloids
- Martin Leser
Nestec Ltd., Lausanne 26, Switzerland - Brent Murray
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Microscopy Methods
- Dganit Danino
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
NMR
- Bradley Chmelka
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA - Anne Lesage
Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Polyelectrolytes
- Maria Santore
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Reactivity in Colloidal Systems and at Interfaces
- Faruk Nome
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil - Larry Romsted
Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Rheology
- Yujun Feng
Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China - Erin Koos
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Self Assembly
- Alfred Blume
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany - Junbai Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Surface Analysis Techniques
- Libero Liggieri
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Genova, Italy - Reinhard Miller
Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Surface Forces
- Per Claesson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden - William Ducker
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Surfactants
- Marie Pierre Krafft
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France - Reinhard Strey
Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
Theory and Simulation
- Zbigniew Adamczyk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland - Nily Dan
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Thin Liquid Films and Foams
- Dotchi Exerowa
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria - Dimo Platikanov
University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Wetting and Spreading
- Hans-Jürgen Butt
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany - Victor Starov
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
X-Ray and Neutron Scattering
- Jeff Penfold
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, UK - Norman Wagner
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Special Topics
- Nicholas Abbott
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Krister Holmberg
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden - Thomas Zemb
Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, Bagnols sur Cèze Cedex, France
Editor Emeritus