This research project addresses an overlooked, but fundamental issue of colloid science: surfactant adsorption dynamics at nanoparticle-organosolvent interfaces. Adsorption of low molecular weight surfactants at the solid-liquid interface is central to nanoparticle science, and other real life technological applications. The aim is to provide a detailed understanding of surfactant adsorption at nanoparticle surfaces in non-aqueous (specifically non-polar) media. The proposed study is essential to characterise these new organosol systems in the initial equilibrium states, to aid interpretation of kinetic data for future proposed SANS experiments (for late 2007/early 2008). Rico Tabor is a first year PhD student co-sponsored by Infineum.