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Biological Aspects, Surfactant Science

Paul D.T. Huibers

A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science (October 1998).

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Biological Aspects

'The Society for Biomaterials'
http://www.biomaterials.org/
The Society for Biomaterials is a professional society which promotes advances in all phases of materials research and development by encouragement of cooperative educational programs, clinical applications, and professional standards in the biomaterials field.

'Biological Journals Online'
http://www.bic.nus.edu.sg/journal/journal.html
This web site contains an extensive set of links to the home pages of biological journals worldwide. In addition, links to online news journals and the Medline search engine are available.

'BioMedNet'
http://biomednet.com/
The self-proclaimed "internet community for biological and medical researchers", this site maintains a database of abstracts of scientific articles, job listings, supplier listings, an internet magazine, and an evaluated and annotated database of Internet resources for biological and medical researchers.

'SciWeb'
http://www.sciweb.com/
SciWeb provides internet-based information and communication services addressing the needs of professionals working in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, health care and companies servicing the bio-industry.

'The National Institutes of Health (U.S.A.)'
http://www.nih.gov/
The NIH web site includes information covering NIH sponsored research funding opportunities, as well as research news and information including special interest groups, on-line library catalogs and journals, research and training opportunities, and NIH research labs.

'The World-Wide-Web Virtual Library: Biosciences'
http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.html
This site contains links to other more specialized virtual libraries covering many topics relating to biological research.

'The Lipid Thermodynamic Database Project (LIPIDAT)'
http://www.lipidat.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/
LIPIDAT is a relational database (15,385 records) of thermodynamic and associated information (including lipid molecular structures) on lipid mesophase and crystal polymorphic transitions.

Surfactant Science

'The International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS)'
http://metten.fenk.wau.nl/iacis/iacis.html
The objectives of the IACIS are to promote international cooperation among colloid and interface scientists and to encourage advancement and understanding in the field of colloid and interface science.

'The European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS)'
http://jcamatd.ethz.ch/ecis/
This site is the home page of the ECIS, a voluntary, non-profit organization of scientists whose objective is to advance colloid and interace science and to promote cooperation between European scientists.

'The IBM Patent Server'
http://www.patents.ibm.com/
The IBM Patent Server contains over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions, allowing searches of the contents of over two million patents. Patent images are available back to 1975.

'3M Fluorinated Surfactants'
http://requestinfo.com/3mpc/part6.htm
This site contains information for the 3M Fluorad(TM) fluorosurfactant product line, including application and solubility data.

'The World-Wide-Web Virtual Library: Chemistry'
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html
This site maintains links to extensive chemistry related sites, including academic institutions, non-profit and commercial organizations, publications and chemistry software.

'The Surfactants Virtual Library'
http://web.mit.edu/huibers/www/surfsite.htm
This site maintains links to sites covering application information, companies, researchers, research centers, upcoming conferences, professional societies and publications related to surfactants.

'The CSGI Home Page'
http://mac.chim.unifi.it/
The "Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase" (CSGI) is a consortium of six Italian universities focused on colloid and interface science. The main goal of CSGI is the preparation and study of new supramolecular and colloidal systems, and the development of their different industrial applications. CSGI is also intended to provide industrial companies with the basic scientific and technological knowledge to improve and optimize specific industrial processes.
 


Posted September 3, 1998 by Paul Huibers, (huibers@mit.edu)