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Food Colloids, Emulsions, Gels and Foams
Dynamic Aspects of Colloids and Interfaces

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 (December 1998).

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Food Colloids, Emulsions, Gels and Foams

'The Procter Department of Food Science'
http://www.food.leeds.ac.uk/
This department at the University of Leeds (U.K.) was one of the first university departments in the United Kingdom to teach Food Science and to establish a research school in this field.

'The Division of Integrated Food Science and Food Physics'
http://www.spb.wau.nl/zuivel/
This is the home page for the Division of Integrated Food Science and Food Physics at the Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands.

'Food Hydrocolloids'
http://www.oup.co.uk/foodhy/
The journal Food Hydrocolloids published by Oxford University Press presents original research in basic and applied aspects of the properties, functionality and use of macromolecules in food systems. Included within the scope of the journal are studies of real and model food colloids (dispersions, emulsions) and the associated physicochemical stability phenomena (creaming, sedimentation, flocculation and coalescence).

'The Institute of Food Technologists'
http://www.ift.org
The IFT (U.S.A.) is a nonprofit scientific society with 28,000 members working in food science, food technology, and related professions in industry, academia and government. The home page lists other web sites that may be of interest to IFT members and other food science professionals, organized into three categories: U.S. food science sites, international food science sites, and university food science and related departments.

'The Institute of Food Science & Technology'
http://www.easynet.co.uk/ifst/
The IFST (U.K.) is a professional organization for food scientists and technologists. This home page also includes links to other food science resources on the web.

'Internet Food Science & Technology Resources'
http://www.kku.ac.th/~supnga/food/index.htm
This site is a virtual library of food science and technology containing many internet links, on such diverse subjects as associations, businesses, conferences, government resources, institutes, newsgroups, publications, recipes and regulations, among others.

Dynamic Aspects of Colloids and Interfaces

'The Physical Chemistry I Department at Lund University, Sweden'
http://www.fkem1.lu.se
This department engages in extensive research in the areas of surfactant self assembly, polymer solutions and gels, surfactant polymer systems, adsorption and surface forces, experimental methodology in colloid science, and theory and modelling.

'The Max-Planck Institute (MPI) of Colloids and Interfaces'
http://www.mpikg-teltow.mpg.de/index_engl.html
This institute of the Max-Planck-Society, founded in 1992, has specialized divisions engaged in research on colloid chemistry, interfaces and theory. In 1998 a new division focused on colloid physics will be started.

'The Polymer Physics Group, ETHZ'
http://mat.ethz.ch/d-werk/oettinger/research.html
This group at the ETH Zürich works to better understand both the behaviour of polymers during processing and the properties of finished plastic products, from a molecular picture of the constituent polymers. Illustrated descriptions of ongoing research projects can be found in this home page.

'The Soft Condensed Matter Network'
http://www.irc.leeds.ac.uk/soft-matter/
This U.K. university network is devoted to studying the physics of soft condensed matter. The network organizes meetings and workshops, and runs a mailing list and bulletin board.

'The CCP5 Program Library'
http://www.daresbury.ac.uk/CCP/CCP5/librar.html
This web site contains a library of software for molecular simulation, including molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, lattice statistics and lattice dynamics programs. Source code is available directly from the web, via anonymous ftp access, or by email. Also included are the source code for example programs from the book "Computer Simulation of Liquids", by M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987).

'Colloidal Dynamics'
http://www.colloidal-dynamics.com
This company (Sydney, Australia) has pioneered the development of electroacoustics technology, developing instruments and process control systems to simultaneously measure particle size and zeta potential in colloidal materials.

'Simulation of self-assembled polymer and surfactant systems'
http://www.circle4.com/phd/
This summary of the Ph.D. thesis of Peter Nelson at M.I.T. covers lattice models of self-assembly of star block copolymers and surfactants in solution.

'Interactions and Dynamics in Charge-Stabilized Colloid'
http://ars-www.uchicago.edu/~grier/interactionsb/
This illustrated online paper by David Grier is an excellent example of scientific literature adapted for the internet. See also his other publications available online.

 'Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group'
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~weitzlab/
The home page of this group in the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) contains a picture gallery of microscope images of crystals, films and colloids. Also included are the recent publications of the group in journal quality PDF file format.

Posted October 16, 1998 by Paul Huibers, (huibers@mit.edu)