24th Annual

Intensive Short Course On Surfactants-Principles and Applications

DATES: April 16-18, 2008

LOCATION: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 

 Registration now open !!

THIS COURSE CAN BE TAKEN EITHER ONLINE BY VIDEO CONFERENCE OR ONSITE IN PERSON

Video Conference Participants:  This course can also be taken via video link using your company's videoconferencing facilities. All sites will need to have a videoconferencing endpoint capable of doing IP based videoconferencing (H.323). For best results those endpoints need to have a public IP address. These sites must register with our gatekeeper to be able to connect to the multipoint conference.

If you intend to participate via videoconference, please mark the appropriate box on the registration form

The Center for Surface Science and Engineering  at  the University of Florida was established by the Board of Regents of the State University System as an interdisciplinary center for surface science and engineering in January 1985.  Presently, 25 faculty members from various departments and colleges are involved in the activities of the Center.  An international advisory board of leading researchers from academia and industry also provides input to the Center.

The Particle Engineering Research Center (PERC), was created to understand, monitor, and modify particle behavior of particulate systems in existing and emerging industries. The Center’s primary mission is to create a national center of excellence by conducting innovative fundamental research in an intellectually stimulating environment to enhance U.S. technological competitiveness, to educate students and professionals in the engineering practice of particle science and technology and to promote academic, industry, and government collaboration.

As one of their activities, the two centers are jointly offering an intensive course on Surfactants: Principles & Applications to research, development and technical staff of industry.  The course will present the principles and technological applications of surfactants to participants from industry. It will consist of lectures, laboratory experiments, and problem-solving sessions. Detailed lecture notes and related reprints will be given to each participant. The course will also include a guided tour of the state-of-the art research facilities available on the University of Florida campus for surface science research.  The teaching faculty for this intensive course combines over 125 years of research and teaching experience in surface and colloid science both from industry and academia.

Why do we offer this intensive short course to technical staff of industry?

We have been offering this annual intensive short course since 1984 in order to communicate the fundamental principles as well as recent advancements of surface science and technology to technical staff of industry. The science and technology involving surfactants have rapidly grown over the years. New methodologies and instruments have been designed to study the various properties of surfactant films, micelles and solutions.

This course also offers an opportunity for our students and postdoctoral associates to directly interact with technical staff from industry by setting aside an entire afternoon of the course to demonstrate instruments or methods used to measure various properties of surfactant films, micelles and solutions.

Who should take this intensive short course?

Any person involved in scientific and technical activities involving surfactant formulations, processing, or product design can benefit from this course.

We start with simple foundations of what interfaces are as well as surfactant molecules and proceed to discuss the development of surfactant science and applications in various technological processes.

What topics are included in this Course? 

We discuss various fundamental parameters used in surface and colloid chemistry as well as various systems and phenomena such as monolayers, micelles, macro and microemulsions, foams, contact angle and wettability, electrical double layer and electrokinetic phenomena, zeta potential, nanoparticles, dispersions, filtration of viruses, bacteria and nanoparticles. Detailed topics are described elsewhere in this brochure.

We also have a series of experiments to demonstrate the measurement of various properties of surfactant solutions such as dynamic surface tension, surface viscosity, Langmuir Blodgett films, retardation of evaporation by monolayers, size distribution in microemulsions, formation of microemulsions, zeta potential measurement, atomic force microscopy, and BET Surface area measurement of powders.

What is the uniqueness of this intensive course?

Based on our collective experience of more than 125 years, we emphasize the strong correlations between the molecular properties of surfactants and their macroscopic behavior in foams, emulsions, wettability, solubilization, and other technological processes and systems.

Thus, interrelating the molecular structure of surfactants and their behavior in various technological processes is a unique and strong aspect of this course.

Each participant will receive a detailed volume of lecture notes and an additional volume of important reprints of papers on various topics that illustrate the concepts presented in the lectures.

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

·      Monolayers and surface modification

If special services are needed, (i.e. special dietary needs, listening/seeing devices, etc.) for the conference, please send us an email.  Our contact information is at the end of this announcement.

Conference registration: 

FEES:  The Course Fee is $1200.00 (PERC members pay $600.00/PERC affiliates $900.00. Off campus participants via video conference pay $1000). As an additional incentive when 2 or more persons from the same company register, they will each receive a 25% discount in registration fees.  Please send your registration form to the following address by March 14, 2008. After that date please add a late fee of $150.00.

For online registration and/or credit card payment, please go to the following website:

Registration 

http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/basic/116.aspx

The registration fee covers lectures, reading materials, coffee breaks, luncheons and banquet. (Applicants are responsible for their travel arrangements, hotel reservations, transportation to and from hotel and airport, and evening meals)

THE INSTRUCTORS:

Dr. Dinesh O. Shah, the Course Director, is the first Charles A. Stokes Professor of Chemical Engineering and Anesthesiology and the Director of the Center for Surface Science & Engineering at the University of Florida.  He has published over 350 research papers and review articles, and has edited 10 books on micelles, monolayers, enhanced oil recovery and, macro- and microemulsions.   

Dr. Shah has received many academic and professional awards for excellence in teaching and research. He received the University of Florida’s highest honor, Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award, and the President’s Medallion for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship in 1985. The Florida Academy of Sciences presented its Medal to Dr. Shah as the Distinguished Florida Scientist of 1993.  

Dr. Brij M. Moudgil is the Distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the Particle Engineering Research Center at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA).  

He has published over 130 technical papers and presented more than 150 papers at scientific meetings and seminars at academic institutions and private organizations, in the U.S. and abroad.  He has been awarded 12 patents and has edited six books. Dr. Moudgil has received several awards including the Robert H. Richards Award of AIME, SME Distinguished Member Award, and SME President’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Society. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984.

Dr. Krister Holmberg is a professor of Applied Surface Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Before taking up his present position, Dr. Holmberg was the Director of the Institute for Surface Chemistry in Stockholm, Sweden for seven years.  Dr. Holmberg has written two books in the area of surface chemistry and edited one book on novel surfactants. He has written 115 scientific papers and is the inventor or co-inventor of 30 patents. Dr. Holmberg was the President of IACIS, the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists, between 1996 and 1998.

Dr. Monica A. James-Smith, is doing research at the department of chemical engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She obtained her Ph.D.  in 2006, where she investigated the molecular interactions of surfactant solutions in micellar, microemulsion, and macroemulsion systems. She has investigated drug partitioning into microemulsions in relation to detoxification of drug overdose patients. She is currently investigating the interactions of surfactants with biological membranes with emphasis on penetration enhancement effects on skin and intestinal membranes. She has ten papers in publication or in press in reputable journals. She has been honored with an NIH postdoctoral fellowship.

Dr. Ranga Narayanan is the Charles A Stokes Professor of Chemical Engineering and a UF Research Foundation Professor. He has over 30 years of experience in interfacial transport phenomena and fluid mechanics. He is a co-author of a book on Interfacial Stability published by Springer Verlag (2002) and has edited several books and journals in interfacial transport processes. He is the recipient of the A.v. Humboldt Fellowship and a J. William Fullbright Fellowship.

Dr. David Piatt is a section head at Procter & Gamble and is applying the principles of colloid and surface science to manufacturing processes. His early career was spent working on new technologies for laundry and automatic dish washing detergents.  His polymer training led to his moving into the microencapsulation area for a number of years.  During this time, he co-edited a book on polymeric delivery systems and received three patents. 

Which companies have sent their staff members to this course?

The following list contains some of the companies that have sent their technical staff members to participate in our course:

            •    Abbott Laboratories, Inc.

            •    Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

            •    Alcoa, Inc.

            •    Alcon Laboratories, Inc.

            •    Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc.

            •    Cabot Microelectronics Corp.

            •    Church & Dwight Co.

            •    Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Inc.

            •    Colgate Palmolive Co.

            •    Condea Vista, Inc.

            •    Consep Inc.

            •    Eli Lilly & Co.

            •    FMC Corporation

            •    Frito-Lay, Inc./Technology

            •    Gillette Co.

            •    Goldschmidt Chemical Corp.

            •    Griffin LLC

            •    Henkel Corp.

            •    Hercules Inc.

            •    ICI Surfactants

            •    Intevep, S.A.

            •    J & S Chemical

            •    J. M. Huber Corp.

            •    Johnson & Johnson, Inc.

            •    Kimberly-Clark Corp.

            •    Lonza Co.

            •    Naval Surface Warfare Center

            •    Neutrogena Corp.

            •    Procter and Gamble Co.

            •    Rhone-Poulenc Co.

            •    Ross Laboratories, Inc.

            •    SSC Industries, Inc.

            •    Sterling Winthrop Inc.

            •    3M Center

            •    Tomah Products, Inc.

            •    Unilever Research, US

            •    Union Carbide Corporation, Inc.

            •    Vinings Ind. Inc.

            •    Vistakon, Inc.

            •    Witco Co.

            •   Xerox Corp.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Ranga Narayanan or Dinesh O. Shah

Phone: 352-392-9103

Fax: 352-392-9513

Email: surfsci@che.ufl.edu