Title

• Polysaccharides based colloidal carriers for drug delivery applications  
  Ashutosh Tiwari, Mani Prabaharan, Santosh Aryal and Songjun Li

    1

• Biodiversity of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don and its impact on alkaloid production  
  B. Karthikeyan and M. Deiveekasundaram

    23

• Microemulsion systems as potential drug delivery vehicles: Recent developments  
  S. K. Mehta, Gurpreet Kaur, K.K. Bhasin and Neena Mehta

    39

• Microemulsions: Physico-chemical approaches on the system for pharmaceutical applications  
  Anselmo Gomes de Oliveira, Leila A. Chiavacci, Maria V. Scarpa and Eryvaldo Socrates Tabosa do Egito

    57

• Interaction of bioactive molecules with DPPA vesicles  
  Lata Panicker

    85

• Reactivity of water soluble colloidal MnO2 in absence and presence of surfactants  
  Maqsood Ahmad Malik and Zaheer Khan

    111

• Perspectives in bimolecular adsorption at solid-liquid interface  
  Monali Dutta Saikia

    131

• Analysis of mass transfer processes in microparticle and microdroplet systems  
  Katsumi Chikama and Kiyoharu Nakatani

    155

• Spectroscopic and structural studies of interaction of biomolecules with surfactant aggregates  
  Rosangela Itri, Patricia S. Santiago, Leandro R.S. Barbosa and Marcel Tabak

    171

• Adsorption of sodium and chloride ions by inert solid biomaterial derived from Carpobrotus edulis: Effect of ions concentration, temperature and initial pH  
  Mohamed Chiban and Fouad Sinan

    199

• Mineral ions adsorption onto inert solid biomaterials of vegetal origin: Study extended to the strong limiting concentrations leading to the total saturation of adsorbent  
  A. Soudani, M. Chiban, M. Zerbet, H. Eddaoudi, F. Sinan, S. Tahrouch and M. Persin

    209

• The practical use and contemporary methodologies required for the evaluation of foam and emulsion aqueous thin liquid films  
  Dipak K. Sarker

    225

• An overview of sequential adsorption processes and protein separation  
  Shunsheng Cao, Juanrong Chen, Jie Hu and Xinhua Yuan

    243

• Implications of self-assembly on peptide based nano/micro-structured materials and beyond  
  Marsiyana M. Henricus and Ipsita A. Banerjee

    265

• Lyotropic liquid crystals for topical delivery system  
  Rita Muzzalupo, Lorena Tavano, Sonia Trombino, Roberta Cassano and Nevio Picci

    285

• Recent advances of the biomedical applications of carbon nanotubes  
  He Li, Lei Tang, Gengxiu Zheng, Guoxin Sun, Gaolei Wang and Qin Wei

    303

• Plant virus based nanomaterials  
  Yufang Hu

    321

• Micellar effect in redox-reactions: A review  
  Santosh K. Upadhyay, Neelu Kambo and Ratna Shukla

    335