Colloid and Polymer Science - a leading international journal of longstanding tradition - is devoted to colloid and polymer science and its interdisciplinary interactions. As such, it responds to a demand which has lost none of its actuality as revealed in the trends of contemporary materials science. To enable an effective and fast dissemination of scientific manuscripts, four categories of contributions are presented: - Review - Perspectives - Original contributions - Short communications Important for your submission: Purely application-oriented manuscripts or purely theoretical descriptions as well as routine work are not accepted. Please include a cover letter to your submission introducing your work to the editor and a short explanation why the manuscript will be of interest to a journal’s reader. Graphical Abstracts are mandatory for research article.