Hervé This : How to envision billions of nanosystems? Considering cuisine is helpful (2011)

Most food consists of colloidal systems, such as so-called
formulated products, i.e. cosmetics, drugs, coatings. For the
description of such systems, a formalism was introduced. Hervé This
explains, how it was increased for the description of both
colloidal systems and the non-periodical organization of such
systems.