NMR and IR investigation of the conditions determining the stability of microemulsions

Preparation of nanoparticles of silver halides, superconductors and magnetic materials using water-in-oil microemulsions as nano-reactors

“…Due to their importance in various technological applications such as enhanced oil recovery, pharmaceutics, cosmetics, and nanoparticle synthesis, the structure and structural transitions of microemulsions have been extensively studied using X-ray and light scattering, ultracentrifugation, spin label probes, dielectric relaxation, fluorescence probes, and neutron scattering [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

Microemulsions - A Brief Introduction

“…Using NMR measurements, www.intechopen.com Gilberg and co-workers have indicated that in case of micelles with a larger water core the packing density of surfactant molecules is low, and consequently the stability of such micelles are lower than the micelles with higher packing density (Gillberg et al, 1970). Stilbs has demonstrated that by solubilization of the short-chain n-alcohols in microemulsions containing SDS micelles the 1H NMR line broadening occurs (Stilbs, 1982).…”

Structural changes induced by addition of a hydrocarbon to water/amphiphile mixtures

“…Paralleling these efforts, Gillberg [9], Shinoda [10], and Ahmad [11] showed W/O microemulsions to be direcly obtained from the cosurfactant inverse micellar solution [12] by the addition of hydrocarbon. In fact, the solubility region of water, when calculated as a fraction of the non-hydrocarbon constituents only, remained constant at hydrocarbon contents less than fifty percent by weight [13].…”