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
Cornell University School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ithaca, New York, United States - Marie Pierre Krafft
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Biological Colloids and Interfaces
- Martin Malmsten
University of Copenhagen Department of Pharmacy, København, Denmark - Stefan Zauscher
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Drug Delivery
- Julie Champion
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Rita Vanbever-Zaman
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Lab. of Pharmaceutical Technology, Brussels, Belgium
Electrokinetics
- Martin Z. Bazant
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Carsten Werner
Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany
Emulsions and Microemulsions
- Kenji Aramaki
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan - Carlos Rodriguez Abreu
Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Food Colloids
- Martin Leser
Nestec Ltd., Nestlé Research Center Lausanne, Lausanne 26, Switzerland - Brent Murray
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Formulations and Cosmetics
- Samiul Amin
Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, United States - Eliana B. Souto
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Microscopy Methods
- Dganit Danino
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
NMR
- Bradley Chmelka
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States - Anne Lesage
Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Analytiques (ISA), Villeurbanne, France
Particle Systems
- Stefano Sacanna
New York University, New York, New York, United States - Patrick Spicer
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Krassimir Velikov
Unilever Innovation Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Polyelectrolytes
- Maria Santore
University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Chemistry, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Reactivity in Colloidal Systems and at Interfaces
- Faruk Nome †
Federal University of Santa Catarina, FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil - Larry Romsted
Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Rheology
- Yujun Feng
Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China - Erin Koos
KU Leuven, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Heverlee, Belgium
Self Assembly
- Alfred Blume
Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany - Junbai Li
Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Special Topics
- Nicholas Abbott
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States - Marie Pierre Krafft
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France - Thomas Zemb
Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, ISCM Laboratoire de Sonochimie dans les Fluides Complexes, LSFC, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Surface Analysis Techniques
- Libero Liggieri
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Genova, Italy - Reinhard Miller
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Surface Forces
- Per Claesson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden - William Ducker
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Surfactants
- Romain Bordes
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden - Yilin Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Theory and Simulation
- Zbigniew Adamczyk
Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Krakow, Poland - Nily Dan
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Thin Liquid Films and Foams
- Sibani Lisa Biswal
Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States - Raymond Dagastine
University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Wetting and Spreading
- Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman
Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany - Victor Starov
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
X-Ray and Neutron Scattering
- Jeff Penfold
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Oxon, United Kingdom - Norman Wagner
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States
Editor Emeritus