Kinetics of adsorption of proteins and surfactants

While the adsorption dynamics of surfactants is quantitatively understood, the formation of protein adsorption layers is in a premature state yet. The same is true for mixed protein–surfactant layers at liquid interfaces. However, there are first theoretical models which allow a quite good description for mixtures of proteins and nonionic surfactants. For such surface layers, theoretical models (for the equilibrium state as well as for the adsorption kinetics) have to be developed yet.