Machine generated contents note: Part One Surfactant Synthesis and Transformations -- 1. Industrial Surfactant Syntheses 1 -- Ansgar Behler, Manfred Biermann, Karlheinz Hill, Hans-Christian Raths, Marie-Esther Saint Victor, -- and Giinter Uphues -- 2. Cleavable Surfactants 45 -- Krister Holmberg -- 3. Gemini Surfactants and Surfactant Oligomers 59 -- Martin In -- 4. New Glycolipids Having Biological Activities: Key Role of Their Organization 111 -- Armand Lattes, Isabelle Rico-Lattes, Emile Perez, and Muriel Blanzat -- 5. Surfactants for Supercritical and Near-Critical Fluids 129 ' -- Terri Carson, Sharon L. Wells, and Joseph M. DeSimone -- 6. Acid- and Oxidatively Labile Vinyl Ether Surfactants: Synthesis and Drug Delivery Applications 145 -- Jong-Mok Kim and David H. Thompson -- 7. Three Principles for Active Control of Interfacial Properties of Surfactant Solutions 155 -- Jason Y Shin, Lana L Jong, Nihal Aydogan, and Nicholas L Abbott --Part Two Chemistry in Isotropic Phases and in Mesophases -- 8. Reactivity Control by Aqueous Amphiphilic Self-Assembling Systems 175 -- Gianfranco Savelli, Raimondo Germani, and Lucia Brinchi -- 9. Diels-Alder Reactions in Micellar Media 247 -- Sijbren Otto and Jan B. F N. Engberts -- 10. Interfacial Compositions of Surfactant Assemblies by Chemical Trapping with Arenediazonium Ions: -- Method and Applications 265 -- Laurence S. Romsted -- 11. Electro-Organic Synthesis in Macro- and Microheterogeneous Solutions: Emulsions, Micelles, -- and Related Systems 295 -- Marc Thomalla -- 12. Mediated Electro-Organic Synthesis in Microemulsions 323 -- James F Rusling -- 13. Chemical Activation in Micelles, Pseudomicelles, and Microemulsions 337 -- Isabelle Rico-Lattes, Armand Lattes, Emile Perez, Ferdinand Gonzaga, and Andreea Ruxandra Schmitzer -- 14. Reactions and Synthesis in Microemulsions and Emulsions in Carbon Dioxide 349 -- Keith P Johnston, J. D. Holmes, G. B. Jacobson, C. T Lee, G. Li, P Psathas, and M. Z. Yates -- 15. Reactions in Multiphase (Liquid/Liquid) Micellar Systems 359 -- Turgut Battal and James F Rathman -- 16. Chemical Detoxification in Amphiphilic Systems 373 -- Raymond A. Mackay -- 17. Colloidal Chemistry of Lubricating Oils 385 -- Duncan C. Hone, Brian H. Robinson, Jane R. Galsworthy, and Roger W. Glyde -- 18. Giant Vesicles as Microchemical Vessels 395 -- Stephen J. Lee and Jason S. Keiper -- 19. Electroless Plating of Organic Pigment Thin Films Using Surfactants with an Azobenzene Group 407 -- Tetsuo Saji -- 20. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Modeling of Micellar Autocatalysis 413 -- Jean-Claude Micheau and R. Nagarajan --Part Three Polymerization Chemistry -- 21. Emulsion Polymerization 429 -- Klaus Tauer -- 22. Free Radical Polymerization in Microemulsions 455 -- Carlos C. Co, Renko de Vries, and Eric W. Kaler -- 23. Heterophase Polymerization in Inverse Systems 471 -- Katharina Landfester and Hans-Peter Hentze -- 24. Vesicular Polymerization 501 -- Jutta Hotz and Wolfgang Meier -- 25. The Use of Surfactant Self-Assembly in the Enzymatic Synthesis of Novel Polymers 515 -- Glen Irvin, Sukanta Banerjee, Ramannair Premachandran, Blake A. Simmons, Sichu Li, Vijay T John, -- Gary McPherson, Joseph Akkara, David Kaplan, and Weilie Zhou -- 26. Material Synthesis by Polymerization in Surfactant Mesophases 525 -- Eric J. Paul and Robert K. Prud'homme -- 27. Admicellar Polymerization 537 -- John O'Haver, Brian Grady, Jeffrey H. Harwell, and Edgar A. O'Rear -- 28. Polymerizable and Polymeric Surfactants 547 -- Alain Guyot and Klaus Tauer --Part Four Particle Precipitation -- 29. Organic Particle Precipitation 577 -- John Texter -- 30. Synthesis of Inorganic and Organic Nanoparticles in Microemulsions 609 -- L. Jeunieau, F Debuigne, and Janos B.Nagy -- 31. Colloidal Nanoparticles and Nanoparticulate Films Grown at the Air-Water Interface 633 -- Janos H. Fendler -- 32. Formation of Nanoparticles in Organized Amphiphilic Films 639 -- Karen Grieve, Franz Grieser, and D. Neil Furlong --Part Five Supramolecular Synthesis -- 33. The Role of Steric Constraints and Intermolecular Interactions in the Formation of Surfactant Phases 667 -- Sonke Svenson -- 34. Stereochemistry of Lipid Micelles and Vesicles That Survive Drying 715 -- Jiirgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop -- 35. Synthesis and Properties of Amphiphile-Based Gene Carriers 729 -- Nily Dan -- 36. Synthesis of Microporous Materials from Reverse Micelles 737 -- Ramsharan Singh, Mario Castagnola, and Prabir K. Dutta -- 37. Mesoscopic Films at Interfaces 761 -- Srinivas Manne, R. K. Workman, and J. L. Wolgemuth -- 38. Synthesis of Mesoscopic Silica Films at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces 779 -- Yoon Seob Lee and James F. Rathman -- 39. Inorganic Nanostructure Design with Amphiphilic Block Copolymers 797 -- Christine Goltner -- 40. The Role of Surfactants and Amphiphiles in the Synthesis of Porous Inorganic Solids 819 -- Andreas Stein and Brian J. Melde.