Based on the plenary and invited lectures presented at the International Symposium on Micelles, Microemulsions, and Monolayers, this title reviews the progress achieved over the years and describes different directions for research on micellar, microemulsion, and monolayer systems and their technological potential.

This volume chronicles the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution (SIS) held in Gainesville, FL, June 10-15, 1990. This series of symposia have been smoothly running since 1976, but the appellation "Surfactants in Solution" was used for the first time in 1982 in Lund. Since then our logo "SIS" has become very familiar to everyone involved in surfactants. In Lund the meeting was billed as the Fourth International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution. Earlier three events were held under different rubrics, but proceedings of all these symposia, except the 7th...