Surfactants Virtual Library: Research Centers

This section of the Surfactants Virtual Library contains links to universities and research centers that are active in research related to surfactants. References to university course information on surfactants and interfacial phenomena have been included. Please visit our NEW and UPDATED links.

Universities and Research Centers

Colloid and Interface Science, U. of Delaware
Center for Surface Science & Engineering, U. of Florida
Institute for Applied Surfactant Research, U. of Oklahoma
Surfaces, Fluid Mechanics and Interfacial Phenomena, U. Texas
Surface and Interfacial Science, U. South Dakota
Chemical Engineering Research Programs, N.C. State U.
Mattice Group: Block Copolymers, U. Akron
Foam And Conformance Technologies (FACT) Group, CSM
Berg Group: Interfacial and Colloid Science, U. Washington
Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces Laboratory, CMU
Center for Complex Fluids Engineering, CMU UPDATED
Langmuir Center for Colloids and Interfaces, Columbia U.
Graduate Research in Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Interfacial Engineering and Colloid Science, Purdue U.
Colloid & Interface Research, The Ohio State University
Liquid Crystal Physics and Complex Fluids Group, CWRU
The Colloids, Polymers, and Surfaces Program, Carnegie Mellon U.
Surfaces and Colloid Systems Laboratory, Tufts U.
Center for Colloidal and Interfacial Dynamics, U. of Texas, Arlington

The Complex Fluids Group, Brandeis U.
The Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), Clarkson U.
Emulsion Polymers Institute (EPI), Lehigh University
 
 
Research Triangle Institute Surface Cleaning Technology Program, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
NSF-ERC Center for Interfacial Engineering, U. of Minnesota
NSF-ERC Center for Particle Science & Technology, U. of Florida
NSF/MRSEC - Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies, Stanford/IBM Almaden/University of California Davis
NSF - Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
Los Alamos Environmental Science and Technology
Battelle Seattle Research Center
Interaction of Solvents, Solutes, and Surfaces Group, ORNL

SRI Molecular Physics Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA
  CANMET Western Research Centre - bitumen extraction, demulsification, and petroleum related tailings effluent treatment
 
Bristol Colloid Centre, England
Polymers and Colloids Research Group, U. Bristol, England

Colloids, Polymers & Interfaces, King's College London
Colloid Laboratory, Bristol, England
Microemulsion and Surfactant Research, England
Surfactant Systems Research in TCM (Cambridge), England
Polymer and Colloids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England
Colloid and Interface Engineering Research Group, U. of Swansea, Wales

Polymer and Colloids Group, U. of Wales Cardiff
ISIS Spallation Neutron Source (U.K.) - used for surfactant self-assembly studies
 
Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Research Activities at the MPI KG, Germany

Solution Dynamics Group, FHI-Berlin, Germany
Macromolecular chemistry research, University of Cologne, Germany
Cleaning Technology Research Institute, Krefeld, Germany
Liquid Crystal Group Hamburg, U. Hamburg, Germany
 
Physical Chemistry 1, U. of Lund, Sweden
Physical Chemistry, Surface chemistry group, KTH, Sweden
Ytkemiska Institutet (YKI) - Institute for Surface Chemistry, Sweden
The Surface Force Group KTH/YKI, Sweden

Mid Sweden University: Physical Chemistry, Sweden
Centre for Surfactants based on Natural Products (SNAP), KTH, Sweden

Laboratory of Industrial Technical Pharmacy in University of Montpellier II (French)
Laboratoire des Materiaux et Procedes Membranaires L.M.P.M.. Montpellier (French)

Team Strasbourg, France

Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, France
IMRCP, CNRS, France
Interactions Moleculaires et Reactivite Chimique et Photochimique (IMRCP), France
Surfaces Moléculaires Organisées, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Université de Technologie Compiègne, France (one year course specialised in colloid and interface chemistry)

 
Department of Colloid Chemistry, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Wageningen Agricultural U., Netherlands
TNO Cleaning Techniques Research Institute, Delft, Netherlands

 
CSGI, Interuniversity Interfacial Phenomena Research, Florence, Italy
ICFAM-CNR, Genova, Italy

Departament de Tecnologia de Tensioactius, Centre d'Investigació i Desenvolupament, Barcelona (Catalan)
Grupo de Investigación: Tensioactividad, U. de Cadiz, Spain
Laboratory of Surfactants and Detergency, U. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Laboratory of Molecular Recognition in Solution, U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain

 
Chemistry - University of Bergen, Norway
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Colloid and Interface Chemistry Division, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Laboratory of Polymer Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
INEOS RAS: Physicochemistry of Interfacial Phenomena Lab., Moscow, Russia
Team Patras, Greece
Physics of Complex Fluids, Interfaces, and Polymers, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Laboratorio FIRP, U. de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela UPDATED
Postgrados Facultad de Ingenieria: Ingenieria Quimica, U. de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
Centre for Applied and Biocolloid Science, Swinburne Tech., Australia
CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Australia

CSIRO Molecular Science Research Program: Surfactants, Films and Coatings, Australia
Analytical Chemistry, Himeji Inst. of Tech., Japan

RIKEN - The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Japan)
Surface and Interface Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan
Computational Condensed Matter Physics Group, Tokyo Metropolitan U., Japan
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea

Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena Courses

ECH4724: Interfacial Phenomena for Engineers, U. Florida
CHE 569: Principles of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, NC State U.
CH208 - Introduction to Colloids and their Application, Kingston U., England
M.Sc. Course in Surface Chemistry and Colloids, U. Bristol, England
Surfaces, Colloids, and Natural Phenomena, U. Sussex, England
Industrial Chemistry III (Detergents), Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10.55 Colloid and Surfactant Science, MIT
MECE 642 - Introduction to Surface Thermodynamics and Interfacial Phenomena, U. Alberta, Canada


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