I Mono- and Bilayers.- Molecular Theory for Amphiphile Packing and Elastic Properties of Monolayers and Bilayers.- Chain Packing and the Compressional Elasticity of Surfactant Films.- Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Langmuir Monolayers of Polar Molecules.- Investigation of Phase Transitions in Fatty Acid Monolayers by Fluorescence Microscopy.- Polymorphism of Monolayers of Monomeric and Macromolecular Lipids: On the Defect Structure of Crystalline Phases and the Possibility of Hexatic Order Formation.- Surface-Density Transitions, Surface Elasticity and Rigidity, and Rupture Strength of Lipid Bilayer Membranes.- Equilibrium Configurations of Fluid Membranes.- Dynamics of Drying and Film-Thinning.- II Surface Thermal Fluctuations.- Curvature and Fluctuations of Amphiphilic Membranes.- Fluctuations and Interactions Between Membranes.- Tangential Flows in Fluid Membranes and Their Effect on the Softening of Curvature Rigidity with Scale.- Unbinding of Membranes.- Elasticity of Crystalline and Hexatic Membranes.- Fluctuations on Crystal Surfaces.- Surface Tension and Rigidity: Role of the Fluctuations and Optical Measurements.- III Ordered Phases.- Geometrical Basis of Cubic Structures.- Periodic Surfaces of Prescribed Mean Curvature.- The Cubic Phases of Liquid-Containing Systems: Physical Structure and Biological Implications.- Interactions in Lyotropic Lamellar Phases: A High Resolution X-Ray Study.- Stability of Brine Swollen Lamellar Phases.- Phase Diagram of Lamellar Phases: Rigidity and Curvature.- Edge Dislocations and Elasticity in Swollen Lamellar Phases.- Lamellar Lyotropic Phases: Rheology, Defects.- On the Coexistence of Two Lamellar Phases.- IV Vesicles.- Long Range Interactions Between Lipid Bilayers in Salt Solutions and Solutions of Non-Adsorbant Polymers:Comparison of Mean-Field Theory with Direct Measurements.- Niosomes: A Case in the Design of Lipid Vesicles.- Direct Visualization of Amphiphilic Phases by Video Enhanced Microscopy and Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy.- Spontaneous Formation of Vesicular Structures from a Swollen Lamellar Phase by Dilution and Control of Surface Charge Density.- V Micelles.- Scattering of Concentrated Dispersions of Colloidal Particles: Microemulsion Droplets, Polydisperse Hard Spheres and Charged Hard Spheres.- Self-diffusion of Globules.- Dynamics of Charged Systems.- Counterion Complexation. Ion Specificity in the Diffuse Double Layer of Surfactant and Classical Colloids.- Light Scattering Experiments on Interacting Micelles.- Nonionic Micelles.- SANS Study of Structure, Growth, and Polydispersity of Short-Chain Lecithin Micellar Systems. A Ladder Model Analysis.- Theory of Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Separation of Micellar Solutions with Upper and Lower Consolute Points.- Electric Birefringence of Nonionic Micellar Solutions Near the Cloud Point.- Aspects of the Statistical Thermodynamics of Amphiphilic Solutions.- Rheological Properties of Semi-Dilute Micellar Systems.- Shear Induced Micellar Structures.- Dynamics of Intermicellar Exchanges.- VI Microemulsions.- A Statistical Mechanical Model for Microemulsions.- Middle-Phase Microemulsions and Random Surfaces.- Intimations of Bicontinuity in Microemulsion Theory.- Microemulsions and Their Precursors.- Three-Component Microemulsion Structure: Curvature and Geometric Constraints.- Transition of Rodlike to Globular Micelles by the Solubilization of Additives.- A Study of Dynamics of Microemulsion Droplets by Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy.- Images of Bicontinuous Microemulsions by Freeze Fracture Electron Microscopy.- Molecular Self-Diffusion and Microemulsion Bicontinuity.- Scattering Probes of Microemulsion Structure.- Small-Angle Scattering on Microemulsion Systems. Evidence for an Ordered Bicontinuous Structure.- Relation Between Elasticity of Surfactant Layers and Characteristic Sizes in Microemulsions.- Phase Behavior of Quinary Systems: The X Surface.- VII Porous Media.- Fractal Flow Patterns in Porous Media.- Index of Contributors.