KEY WORD INDEX

A

Accelerated stability test 66
Acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate 142
Acrylic thickeners, multiple-particle tracking 74
Adsorption 1
Amorphous precursor 11
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) 1, 39, 57

B

Bilayer formation 80
Biodegradability, poly(n-butylcyano-acrylate) 120
Biomineralization 11
Brewster angle microscopy 11
n-Butylcyanqacrylate 120

C

C10-C30acrylate 90
Cadmium sulfide nanoparticles 149
Calcium carbonate 1
Cantilevers, micromechanical 57
Catalase 21
Cation binding 1
Cationic surfactants, reverse aggregates 101
Cellular uptake 128
Cholesterol 80
Citrate synthase 21
Colloidal multilayer systems 48
Colloids 48
Continuum matrix 134
Core-shell particles 120
Core-shell polyorganosiloxane nanoparticles 128
Cyanobiphenyls 39

D

Deuterium/protium fractionation factor 101
Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide101
Dimethicones 91
Dimethyl-N-octadecyl-3-amino-propyltrimethoxysilyl chloride (DMOAP) 39
DNA, oligo-DNA 128
DNA encapsulation 120
Dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide 101
Drop spreading 82
Droplet size 90
- distribution 66
Droplets, creaming 66
Drug delivery 120
Dynamic light scattering 135

E

Emulsions 90
- components 90
- instability mechanisms 67
- shelf-life stability 66
- stability 66
Evaporation law 57

F

Film formation, liquid phases 48
Flow particle image analysis (FPIA) 90

H

Hamaker constant 111
HBL complex 21
Heat transport, nanoparticles 134
Hemoglobin 21
Hydration, proteins (programs) 19
Hydrophobic surfaces, Mucin-coated 1
Hydroxyapatite, nanoparticles 141

I

Individual water molecules 19
Interface 11
Interfacial polymerization 120
Interfacial water, structure 101

L

Lactate dehydrogenase 21
Landau-de Gennes 39
Layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition 30
Liposomes 80
Liquid crystal, surface-induced ordering 39
Lysozyme 21

M

Magnetic heating 134
Magnetic nanoparticles 134
Magnetocalorimetry 134
Malate synthase 21
Melt transition 134
Melting, magnetically induced 134
Micelles, reverse 101
Microdrop evaporation 57
Microemulsions, poly(ethylene glycol) 149
- water-in-oil 101
Microgel, hydroxyapatite nanoparticles 141
Microheterogeneity 74
Micromechanical cantilevers 57
Microrheology 74
Molecular volume 19
Monolayer 11
Mucin 1
Multiple-particle tracking 74
Multisample analytical centrifugation 66
Multivalent ion 1

N

Nanocapsule 120
Nanoparticles 149
- hydroxyapatite 141

- polyorganosiloxane 128
Neutron reflectometry 30

O

Oblique drop impact 80

4-n-Octyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) 39
Oligo-DNA 128
Ostwald ripening 67

P

PAH/PSS, swelling/water uptake 30
PEG-12 dimethicone 90
PEO 128
Phospholipid-monolayers 80
Phospholipids 111
Phosphorylase 21
Photonic crystals 48
Poly(acrylamidosulfonic) acids (AMP) 91
Poly(butyleyanoacrylate) 120
Poly(ethylene glycol) 149
Poly(siloxanes) 91
Polyacrylate ester 74
Polyallylamine hydrochloride (PAH) 30
Polyelectrolyte multilayers 30
Polyelectrolytes 30
Polyethylene imine (PEI) 30
Polymers 90
Polymer-stabilized emulsions 90
Polyorganosiloxane 128
Polysodium 4-styrenesulfonate (PSS) 30
Presmectic ordering 39
Proteins, hydration/volume 19

Q

Q-particles (quantum dots) 149
Quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) 57

R

Refractive index 111
Reverse aggregate-solubilized water 102
Reverse micelles 101
Rheology 90
Ribonuclease A 21

S

Sauter diameter 90
Semiconductor materials, nanometer-sized 149
Shelf life 66
Shelf-life stability, emulsions 66
Siloxane-based nanoparticles, ODN-modified 129
Stearic acid 11
STEP-technology 66
Surface force 1
Surface tension 57
Surface topography 19
Surface-induced ordering 39
Swelling 1, 30
- La-phases 111

T

Thermosensitive particles 141

Thin film 11

V

Vaporization heat 57
Vinylcaprolactam 142
Viscosity 66

W

Water uptake 30
Water-in-oil microemulsions 101

Y

Young's equation 57