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| List of Contributors.Preface.Some Thoughts about Microemulsions.Bj_rn Lindman | |
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| Phase Behaviour, Interfacial Tension and Microstructure of Microemulsions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Phase behaviour | |
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| Interfacial tension | |
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| Microstructure | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Scattering Techniques to Study the Microstructure of Microemulsions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Scattering from droplet microemulsions | |
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| Scattering from bicontinuous microemulsions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Formulation of Microemulsions | |
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| Basic concepts | |
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| Representation of formulation effects | |
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| Physico-chemical formulation yardsticks | |
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| Quality of formulation | |
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| Formulations for special purposes | |
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| Final comment | |
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| Effects of Polymers on the Properties of Microemulsions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Amphiphilic polymers | |
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| Non-amphiphilic polymers | |
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| Reactions in Organised Surfactant Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Motivation for surfactant systems as reaction media | |
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| Selected reactions | |
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| Engineering aspects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Microemulsions as Templates for Nanomaterials | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preparation of nanocompounds | |
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| Metal and metal/polymer nanoparticles | |
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| Outlook | |
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| Non-Aqueous Microemulsions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Self-assembly in polymer blends | |
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| Self-assembly in room temperature ionic liquids | |
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| Self-assembly in supercritical CO2 | |
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| Self-assembly in non-aqueous polar solvents | |
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| Self-assembly in sugar glasses | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Microemulsions in Cosmetics and Detergents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Microemulsions in cosmetics | |
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| Microemulsions in detergency | |
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| Microemulsions: Pharmaceutical Applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Microemulsions | |
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| Applications in transdermal and dermal delivery | |
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| Applications in oral drug delivery | |
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| Applications in parenteral drug delivery | |
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| Applications in ocular drug delivery | |
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| Mucosal drug delivery | |
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| Microemulsions as templates for the synthesis of pharmaceutical nanocarriers | |
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| Application in pharmaceutical analysis | |
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| Future perspectives | |
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| Microemulsions in Large-Scale Applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Soil decontamination | |
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| Microemulsions in enhanced oil recovery | |
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| Degreasing of leather | |
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| Future Challenges | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bicontinuous mi | |