Recent Advances in Colloids, Interfaces, and Interfacial Activities

Dear Colleagues,

Colloids, interfaces, and interfacial activities underpin a very wide variety of both fundamental and applied sciences with significant implications in applied aspects of engineering processes and industrial applications including: oil recovery and separation, biomaterials and nanomedicine, drug delivery, energy conversion and storage, polymer technologies, adsorption separations, environmental technologies, catalysis, electrochemistry, food industry, pharmaceutical, cosmetic products, and many others. These concepts are fundamental to understanding and manipulating available materials at nanoscale for designing and developing novel nanoplatforms and nano-systems for different applications. From this perspective, the main scope of this Topic is creating an agenda, encompassing all aspects of colloids and interfaces science for disclosing their current related achievements and addressing associated issues. The ultimate goal of this project is improving the current knowledge, for the development and application of novel nanomaterials, leading to breakthroughs in various fields.

We are particularly interested in articles and reviews that explore all features of colloids, interfaces, and interfacial activities and their possible contribution in the sectors above mentioned. Moreover, papers on the analysis of their performance, on how managing their functions and on the possible improving integrations to enhance their application efficiency, with associated advances and challenges, are also of special interest.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to the following:

• Synthesis, characterization, and properties of colloidal nanomaterials and physicochemical properties of the assembled systems.
• Structural design and optimization, and application of novel colloidal materials and systems.
• Emerging technologies, processes and materials in colloid and interface science.
• Industrial applications of colloids and interfaces and understanding of their underlying mechanisms in each application.
• Experimental techniques for testing, characterization, monitoring of interfacial phenomena and diagnosis of their related technological issues.
• Fluid dynamics, modelling and experimental validation of multi-phase flows.
• Performance analysis and operational management of colloidal and nanomaterials and related technologies.
• Control and tuning of the assembly of colloids at fluid interfaces.
• Foam and foam stability.
• Application of AI methods and optimization algorithms in surface and colloid sciences.
• Electrochemistry and electrode/electrolyte interfacial activities.
• Understanding of the interfacial activities in energy storage/conversion technologies.
• Colloidal and nanomaterials integration to improve the overall performance of colloidal systems and related technologies.
• Colloids and interfaces in oil recovery and oil/water separation.
• Their techno economic analysis and market analyses.

Prof. Dr. Mojtaba Mirzaeian
Prof. Dr. Saule Aidarova
Prof. Dr. Nurxat Nuraje
Prof. Dr. Paul Takhistov
Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Katona
Topic Editors