Introduction to surfaces and colloids -- Capillarity and surface forces (liquids) -- Surfactants (soaps and detergents) and physicochemical properties -- Spread lipid films on liquid surfaces (langmuir-blodgett films) -- Solid surfaces : adsorption -- Wetting, adsorption, and cleaning processes -- Colloidal systems -- Thin liquid films -- Emulsions, microemulsions, and lyotropic liquid crystals -- Diverse applications of surface and colloid chemistry in science and industry.