Abstract
This meeting will be the 4th in a series of triennial international conferences and keeps the traditions of the previous meetings on Lyotropic Liquid Crystals, which were held also in Ivanovo. The proceedings of these three meetings were published in Bull. Acad. Sci. of Russia. The main goal is to bring together scientists and students from colloid, inorganic, organic, metal-organic, polymer and physical chemistry as well as physics, medicine and biology to present and discuss their recent and advanced developments in the area of lyotropic liquid crystals and their practical applications.