This volume contains the proceedings of the IXth annual meeting of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) which took place in Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995. The contributions cover a broad range of fields in modern colloid science...
". . .well written. . ..gives a fair account of the current status of microemulsion technology. . ..will be useful to product development scientists in a variety of industries. " ---Chromatographia
Solans\, Conxita; Kunieda\, Hironobu
Overview of basic aspects of microemulsions; how to prepare microemulsions - temperature-intensive microemulsions; the applications of microemulsions for analytical determinations; microemulsions in biotechnology; microemulsions in the pharmaceutical field - perspectives and applications; solubilization of drugs in microemulsions; microemulsions in foods - properties and applications; microemulsions in cosmetics; microemulsions in agro-chemicals; microemulsions in dyeing processes; microemulsions as nanosize reactors for the synthesis of nanoparticles of advanced materials; use of microemulsions in the production of nanostructured materials; the microemulsion/gel method; microemulsions in enhanced oil recovery - middle-phase microemulsion formation with some typical anionic surfactants; microemulsion and optimal formulation occurence in pH-dependent systems as found in alkaline-enhanced recovery; microemulsions in the chemical EOR process; use of microemulsions for the extraction of contaminated soils; the hole of microemulsions in detergency processes; emulsions and microemulsions in metal-working processes.