“Diversity in every way – age, gender, academia, industry, nationality. “Diversity is embroidered into the fabric of this conference,” says Sven Behrens, one of the three Georgia Tech researchers, with Valeria Milam and Seth Marder, serving as co-organizers of the symposium. In fact, the two disciplines, colloid science and surface science, are so closely related they share center stage each year at one of the longest-running science conferences in the U.S., the American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, which is happening right now in Atlanta, hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.Īnd if there is a theme to the 93rd annual version of this event, which runs through Wednesday, it is diversity. Surface science, the study of chemical and physical phenomena at the interface of two phases, such as solid-liquid, solid-gas, and liquid gas interfaces, is closely related to colloid science.

Some common examples of colloids include milk, mayonnaise, butter, whipped cream, gelatin, jelly, muddy water, plaster, colored glass, paper, and fog. They are substances that are microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance – mixtures whose particles are bigger than a molecule but smaller than particles that may ordinarily be seen with the naked eye. Colloids are all around you, on you, and inside of you.

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