2. BACKGROUND 2.1. Aqueous Reverse Micelles The unique properties of water including
its polarity and highly structured hydrogen bond network have led to the widespread use of …

Microemulsions are technologically important complex fluids. In many applications, they are
required to accommodate functional additives such as drugs, polymers, and nanoparticles …

Surfactants (or amphiphiles) are generally believed to be a necessary component of
microemulsions. However, research has found that in the absence of traditional surfactants …

In this study, an ultrasonic-assisted extraction using microemulsions was developed for the
recovery of natural astaxanthin from shrimp waste. To select applicable solvent systems, the …

In this work, the La-metal–organic frameworks (La-MOFs) were synthesized using
lanthanum (III) nitrate and 1, 3, 5-benzenetricarboxylic acid (BTC) in H2O-in-1-butyl-3 …

In the last few decades ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely considered as a “green solvents”
and they are used in various fields. ILs can be used in the formation of microemulsion as a …

Over the past decades, microemulsions have become increasingly attractive for application
in diverse areas of science and engineering mainly because of their high thermodynamic …

Due to the increasing applicability of ionic liquids (ILs) as different components of
microemulsions (as the polar liquid, the oil phase, and the surfactant), it would be …

A new type of surfactant-free microemulsion (SFME) containing water/ethanol/
dichloromethane was constructed, and three microregions water-in-dichloromethane (W/O) …

Ionic liquids display an array of useful and sometimes unconventional, solvent features and
have attracted considerable interest in the field of green chemistry for the potential they hold …