chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Lifshitz–van der Waals (LW) Interactions -- chapter 3 Relation Between the Hamaker Constant and the Apolar Surface Tension Component -- chapter 4 Polar or Lewis Acid-Base Interactions -- chapter 5 Electrical Double Layer Interactions -- chapter 6 Brownian Movement Forces—Osmotic Interactions of Polymers -- chapter 7 Rate of Decay with Distance -- chapter 8 Lifshitz–van der Waals and Lewis Acid-Base Properties of Liquid Water—Physical and Physico-Chemical Effects -- chapter 9 Role of Water in Hydrophobic Attraction -- chapter 10 Role of Water in Hydrophilic Repulsion -- chapter 11 The Water–Air Interface -- chapter 12 Contact Angle and Surface Tension Determination and Preparation of Solid Surfaces -- chapter 13 Interfacial Tension Determination—Infl uence of Macroscopic- and Microscopic-Scale Interactions -- chapter 14 Different Approaches for Interpreting Contact Angles and Determining the Surface Tension and Surface Tension Components of Solids -- chapter 15 Electrokinetic Methods -- chapter 16 Direct Measurement Methods, Treating the Force Balance in Particular -- chapter 17 Surface Tension Components and Parameters of Liquids and Solids -- chapter 18 Attractive LW- and AB-Forces: Hydrophobic Interactions -- chapter 19 Repulsive AB-Forces: Hydrophilic Interactions—Osmotic Pressures of PEO Solutions -- chapter 20 The Primary and Secondary Interactions -- chapter 21 Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions; Coacervation and Complex Coacervation -- chapter 22 Solubility of Polymers and Other Solutes -- chapter 23 Cell and Particle Stability -- chapter 24 Adsorption and Adhesion in Aqueous Media, Including Ligand-Receptor Interactions -- chapter 25 Kinetics and Energetics of Protein Adsorption onto Metal Oxide Surfaces.