The formation of oil/water (O/W) nano-emulsions suitable for cosmeceutical application was studied. Nano-emulsions were prepared by using phase inversion composition (PIC) method, one of the low-energy emulsification methods. The process consist of stepwise water addition to oil/surfactant mixture, at T = 25°C. Caprylic/capric triglycerides (GTCC), propylene glycol dicaprylate/dicaprate (PC) an...

Emulsions are metastable dispersions. Their lifetimes are directly related to the dynamics of surfactants. We design a microfluidic method to measure the kinetics of adsorption of surfactants to the droplet interface, a key process involved in foaming, emulsification, and droplet coarsening. The method is based on the pH decay in the droplet as a direct measurement of the adsorption of a carbox...

The goal of our investigation was to develop oral solution of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) by using self-emulsifying systems. CoQ10 is practically insoluble in water. Therefore, it is difficult to develop oral solution of CoQ10. To solubilize CoQ10 and to develop it as oral solution, self-emulsifying systems consisted of oil, surfactant and co-surfactant were studied and using the self-emulsifying syst...

BACKGROUND Lagerstroemia speciosa (SEL) leaves are a popular folk medicine for diabetes treatment due to presence of corosolic acid. It has low water solubility resulting poor absorption after oral administration. Self micro-emulsified drug delivery system is the way by which we can improve the oral absorption of drug. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop the self micro-emulsi...

OBJECTIVES A new desorption method was investigated, which does not require toxic organic solvents. Efficient desorption of organic solvents from activated carbon was achieved with an ananionic surfactant solution, focusing on its washing and emulsion action. METHODS Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) were used as test solvents. Lauryl benzene sulfonic acid sodium salt (LAS...

The current study investigated the stability and extraction efficiency of emulsion liquid membrane (ELM) for Abamectin pesticide removal from aqueous solution. was in terms droplet size distribution breakage percent. proposed ELM included a mixture corn oil kerosene (1:1) as diluent, Span 80 (sorbitan monooleate) surfactant hydrochloric acid (HCl) stripping agent without utilizing carrier agent...

The behavior of two-dimensional binary and ternary amphiphilic fluids under flow conditions is investigated using a hydrodynamic lattice-gas model. After the validation of the model in simple cases (Poiseuille flow, Darcy's law for single component fluids), attention is focused on the properties of binary immiscible fluids in porous media. An extension of Darcy's law which explicitly admits a v...

−Stable hydrocarbon oil (hexadecane, C16)/nonionic surfactant (HCO-60, Span 80)/water system oil-inwater nanoemulsions were prepared by the phase inversion composition method at elevated temperature. To minimize droplet size, the composition ratio for stable nanoemulsions, we experimented by changing the HLB value, oil/surfactant ratio, and droplet volume fraction. When the HLBmix value 11, the...